Sat 01 May 2021: Fire broke out at Bharuch Welfare Hospital at 1 am on Saturday. According to district collector Dr Modhya, at least 18 Covid-19 patients lost their lives in the incident. The patients died due to the fire and resultant smoke, Bharuch Superintendent of Police Rajendrasinh Chudasama said. A total of around 70 […]
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Sat 01 May 2021: Tech mogul and philanthropist Bill Gates made a controversial statement regarding the patents in vaccine technology and has ruffled quite many feathers. Bill Gates, in an interview with Sky News, was asked if it would be possible to change the intellectual property law so as to enable the formula for COVID […]
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Sat 01 May 2021: India on Saturday recorded 401,993 daily cases, Health Ministry figures show — a new global record. The ministry said the overall coronavirus mark has now surpassed 19 million, while the death toll stands at 211,853, including 3523 new fatalities. India has added more than 300,000 daily cases for nine consecutive days […]
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Fri 30 April 2021: Facebook hid posts with a hashtag calling for Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s resignation by mistake, not because of the Indian authorities’ request, Andy Stone, Facebook spokesperson, told BuzzFeed news. On Wednesday, the social network temporarily hid all posts with the hashtag #ResignModi citing community safety violation. All the posts were […]
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Fri 30 April 2021: Health authorities in the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Romania, Switzerland and Belgium have detected cases of the so-called Indian variant, formally known as B.1.617. France’s southwestern region of Nouvelle-Aquitaine has registered the first case of the Indian mutant variant of COVID-19 a regional health agency director said. “We have determined that […]
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Fri 30 April 2021: Television journalist and senior anchor Rohit Sardana died of Covid on Friday, leaving journalists and others who knew him shocked and heartbroken. Rohit Sardana was with Aaj Tak and anchored a popular show ‘Dangal‘ that featured debates on current affairs. He earlier worked with Zee News, where he used to host […]
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Fri 30 April 2021: The UK-Swedish pharmaceutical AstraZeneca reported on Friday that its net profit doubled in the first quarter of 2021, with the COVID-19 vaccine developed with University of Oxford contributing $275 million to the $7.32 billion revenue growth during the period. According to the earnings statement, the company’s net profit reached $1.56 billion […]
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Fri 30 April 2021: Coronavirus crisis in India calls for introspection. There have been lapses And failures. Though it’s true that nobody could have predicted such a big surge, India could have been better prepared. It’s also true that mass religious and political events could have been called off. A blame game in the middle […]
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Fri 30 April 2021: France will lift the entry ban for foreign arrivals with a special COVID-19 certificate beginning from June 9 as part of a gradual exit from lockdown, French media reported on Thursday, citing President Emmanuel Macron. French president Emmanuel Macron has laid out full details of France’s reopening plan, including the relaxing […]
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Thu 29 April 2021: The calamitous COVID-19 outbreak in India is a wake-up call for Africa. African nations generally do not have sufficient numbers of healthcare workers, hospital beds or oxygen supplies – and the continent of 1.3 billion would be even more overwhelmed than India if cases surged in a similar way, said John […]
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