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- How India is using the Covid-19 catastrophe to start fixing its crumbling healthcare system
Badly unprepared for the havoc that could be wreaked by a major surge in Covid-19 cases, India has taken this deadly pandemic as an opportunity to begin mending its inadequate medical infrastructure and to build new capacity. - India & Pakistan may reopen some crucial industries amid Covid-19 lockdownsDespite strict quarantine measures due to the coronavirus pandemic, India and Pakistan are planning to partially open up some parts of their economies to cushion the financial impact of shutdowns across the region.
- Rally for secretive Islamist group TJ exploded Covid-19 in India - but is that the most dangerous thing about this movement?One in three people who have tested positive for the Covid-19 virus in India have contracted it at a common source: a gathering of a massive and mysterious Islamic organisation named Tablighi Jamaat (TJ).
- Death in the slum: India holds its breath as coronavirus spreads to tightly-packed shanty townA series of coronavirus deaths in India’s biggest slum has panicked authorities and raised a difficult question: how can the government stop a virulent illness in the most vulnerable of neighborhoods?
- As India locks itself down over coronavirus, West’s bias factory is working overtimeIt was long, irritating, and refused to go away. A 30-second public service announcement started appearing on each of India’s 1.28 billion mobile phones in early March, warning about the coronavirus threat and how to prevent it.
- India’s migrant exodus: Media and liberals attempt to use national crisis to destabilize Modi government amid lockdownWith India’s 1.3 billion people now on Covid-19 lockdown, the country faces another urgent crisis; the sudden exodus of inter-state migrants, now out of work, desperately fleeing the capital to reach their countryside villages.
- Why India, not the US or EU, will be the world’s main battlefield in the fight against Covid-19With its 21-day lockdown, India joined a long list of nations taking extraordinary steps to battle Covid-19 — and its results will determine the future of this worldwide pandemic. Can India help the world avert major catastrophe?
- First day of ‘self-curfew’ in India: New Delhi relies on isolation-trick to dodge coronavirus — enough after 100s infected?India’s citizens appear to be standing behind Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s call to “isolate” themselves to stop the spread of the coronavirus, but there is fear that not enough was done to protect its population of 1.3 billion.
- India tries to revive South Asian bloc to counter coronavirus, and China’s growing influenceThis week New Delhi has proposed a joint Covid-19 emergency fund to revive the neglected South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC), amid concerns about the pandemic as well as fears of China’s growing influence.
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