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Nizamuddin dargah: “The Chief of Tablighi ignored the advice of the clergymen about canceling the meeting” | India News

Rumita Patel
| Apr 6, 2020

AYODHYA: Tablighi Jamaat chief Maulana Muhammad Saad Kandhlawi reportedly did not listen to the advice and requests of several high-ranking clerics, Muslim intellectuals and his own aides to cancel the March 2020 Nizamuddin meeting shortly after the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic. His stubborn attitude has not only endangered the lives of hundreds of his…
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Opinion

Covid-19: Economic Opportunities and Challenges | Opinion – analysis

Rumita Patel
| Apr 6, 2020

When pandemics spread, they cause economic contagion, beyond the morbidity and mortality of the disease itself. Economic activity has been reduced to impose social distancing, an indispensable bullet in the war of coronavirus disease (Covid-19). The World Bank and International Monetary Fund (IMF) warned that the virus is pushing the world economy into a recession…
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India

Covid 19 India: Corona tests shift to best gear | India News

Rumita Patel
| Apr 6, 2020

NEW DELHI: In a massive increase in testing for Covid-19, the government plans to double every three days the number of samples analyzed through the RT-PCR process, considered mandatory for accurate results, by government laboratories. The scope of the tests will be further expanded with a number of other tests, including those used for tuberculosis…
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India

Coronavirus cases in India: Toll crosses 100; Tablighi Jamaat members represent 30% of all coronavirus cases | India News

Rumita Patel
| Apr 6, 2020

NEW DELHI: The death toll in India from the Covid-19 outbreak increased more than 100 with 27 patients succumbing to the infection in the past 24 hours or so, the highest number of victims reported in one day so far , with Maharashtra alone reporting 13 deaths on Sunday. More about Covid-19 The number of…
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Opinion

Treat patients with symptoms, now | HT Editorial – Editorials

Rumita Patel
| Apr 6, 2020

According to media reports, a 55-year-old woman waited in an ambulance on Friday in front of a government Covid-19 medical center in Ujjain. He had symptoms of coronavirus disease. She also had comorbidities. But the results of his formal test had not come. The hospital said that since only confirmed cases were admitted, she was…
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India

Decision to reopen schools on April 14: Minister of Human Resources | India News

Rumita Patel
| Apr 6, 2020

NEW DELHI: Educational institutions will reopen only after a review of the coronavirus situation in the country when the closure period ends on April 14, Union Human Rights Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal said on Sunday. “The safety of students and teachers is of utmost importance to the government,” added Pokhriyal. The minister said the government is…
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India

Mumbai coronavirus news: Wockhardt Hospital in Mumbai declared the containment area as 26 nurses and three doctors tested positive | Mumbai News

Rumita Patel
| Apr 6, 2020

MUMBAI: BMC has declared Wockhardt Hospital a containment area after 26 nurses and three doctors tested positive for Covid-19 for a week. No one would be allowed to enter or leave the Mumbai Central hospital until everyone in the hospital tests negative twice in a row, a civic official said. Additional municipal commissioner Suresh Kakani…
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Opinion

Show political imagination | HT Editorial – Editorials

Rumita Patel
| Apr 6, 2020

There can be no positive side to a crisis like the current one. The coronavirus pandemic has shaken the foundations of how citizens live and work; it has taken thousands of lives; It has caused immense economic suffering. But disasters also offer an opportunity to tackle inherited problems. Take the tsunami. In Indonesia, it was…
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Coronavirus overview: developments in India and the rest of the world | India News

Rumita Patel
| Apr 6, 2020

NEW DELHI: The doubling rate of COVID-19 cases in India is currently 4.1 days, but if the cases linked to the Tablighi Jamaat congregation had not happened, they would have been 7.4 days, said Sunday on Sunday. Ministry of Health. Meanwhile, the number of deaths from coronavirus rose to 83 and cases rose to 3,577…
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Opinion

Covid-19: Draw lessons for the future, writes M Venkaiah Naidu – analysis

Rumita Patel
| Apr 6, 2020

An invisible threat has exposed the fragility of human beings as they cross borders and claim lives in the past four months. Since a 55-year-old man in China’s Hubei province first contracted coronavirus disease (Covid-19) on November 17, 2019, as reported by the South Morning China Post, the world has been struggling to accept it….
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