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While the COVID-19 crisis has unleashed an unprecedented global fightback, the strategy to combat the pandemic has varied across regions – from instant draconian lockdown measures to a more softly-softly approach. Highlights: Countries across the world are dealing with the coronavirus pandemic in vastly different ways, ranging from a complete lockdown to a milder ‘social distancing’ approach. While China’s commendable quarantine measures helped contain the spread to an extent, the country failed at sparking a global response at an early stage. Apart from stopping international traffic into the country, India…

Following the US’ increase in the coronavirus (COVID-19) testing capacity; Dara Lo, Medical Device Analyst at GlobalData, a leading data and analytics company, offers her view:   “In the past week, the US has utilized a mix of public and private labs to expand its testing capacity to 100,000 tests per day. Yet, per capita, that is only 305.6 tests per million people each day – a paltry number when compared to Germany, who is expected to become the global leader in COVID-19 testing at 8,063 tests per million people.…

India’s inherent resilience, coupled with some enlightened thinking on the relationship between the public and private sector, will enable it to emerge from this crisis stronger. The much-vaunted democratic and demographic dividends of India will need to be fully encashed, writes India Inc. Group Founder and CEO Manoj Ladwa.   Highlights: The diversity and scale of India’s economy make it an extremely resilient nation, giving it the capability to replace many of the Chinese supply chains. PM Modi has tapped into the country’s inherent sense of community amid this pandemic,…

The world is gripped with fear and panic as the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic has affected around more than a million people across the globe.says Downtoearth.   China reported over 3,000 fatalities — European countries like Spain and Italy even more. India, with a population of 1.3 billion, is under a 21-day nationwide lockdown — the only country to have exercised social distancing at this scale.   A draconian measure indicates either the cases are underreported or the treatment facilities are insufficient for the expected number of cases.  Nevertheless, a relief…

Rodrigo Duterte, Philippine’s President has warned violators of coronavirus lockdown measures they could be shot for causing trouble and said abuse of medical workers was a serious crime that would not be tolerated.   Duterte in a televised address claimed it was vital that everyone cooperates and follows home quarantine measures, as authorities try to slow the contagion and spare the country’s fragile health system from being overwhelmed.   His comments came after media reports of a disturbance and several arrests on Wednesday of residents in a poor area of…

With over 197 million people suffering from mental health issues and a suicide every 17 seconds, India has a third of the world’s cases of depression, addiction and suicide. Inspite of the staggering numbers, there’s a 95% treatment gap due to the lack of access, awareness and affordability and the variable quality of mental healthcare providers. The times we live in today, are adding layers of uncertainty and emotional distress at a population level, in a way people haven’t deal with before anywhere in the world.   To provide an…

Coronavirus death toll in India rises to 50, total cases reach 1,965, as per the data from the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare said on Thursday. Meanwhile, the death toll due to coronavirus has surged to 50 in the country. Out of the total cases reported from 29 states and Union Territories, 1,764 cases are active, while 151 patients have been cured, discharged or migrated.   However, the recent rise in coronavirus cases does not represent national trend. After 134 cases of coronavirus across India were linked to a…

According to the UN reports,  the world economy, this year,  will go into recession suffering a predicted loss of trillions of dollars of global income due to the coronavirus pandemic spelling serious trouble for developing countries. India and China are expected to be out of this count.   With two-thirds of the world’s population living in developing countries facing unprecedented economic damage from the COVID-19 crisis, the UN is calling for a USD 2.5 trillion rescue package for these nations.   According to the new analysis from United Nations Conference…

A religious congregation at Nizamuddin area  in Delhi has turned out to be a COVID-19 hotspot , triggered to a global controversy on why the maulana was misguiding the pilgrims and what was his intention behind this ,weather any criminal conspiracy was behind this , it becomes a million dollar questions in the mind of every Indian citizen .   When there is complete lockdown, who had given the permission for the congregation, an annual event organised by an Islamic missionary movement called Tablighi Jamaat, had attracted around 8,000 people, including many from…

The Crime Branch of Delhi Police on Tuesday lodged an FIR against Maulana Saad and others of Tablighi Jamaat for violation of government order issued in the wake of COVID-19 outbreak.   Few people, including foreign nationals, stayed in 16 mosques in the national capital, in South East, North East and other districts in the city after taking part in a religious congregation at Nizamuddin which has turned out to be a COVID-19 hotspot, officials said.   No social distancing would be possible at those places. It may cause grave…