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Fighting a pandemic... & fake news

We need doctors to stand up and say, "No! Bleach is poison!"

Covid-19 outbreak: Now, place online orders in some districts amid lockdown

Though the new guidelines clearly spell out that only delivery of essentials will be allowed in red zones, permissions for orange and green zones are still not spelt out clearly

The lexical outbreak

Oxford English Dictionary was occasioned by an explosion of new linguistic usages driven by the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic

Shekhar Gupta: Situation normal, but all locked up

India needed to get back to work in stages. But by not getting the country out of the induced coma of the lockdown, Modi govt has risked incapacitating it

India exports 50 mn hydroxychloroquine tablets to US in Covid fight: Report

The trade, India's biggest export of the drug to any country, follows a request by US President Donald Trump for New Delhi to release supplies of hydroxychloroquine

Market Ahead, April 29: Top Factors That Could Guide Markets Today

Moody's Investors Service has slashed India's growth forecast for calendar year 2020 to 0.2 per cent, from 2.5 per cent projected in March

India never discriminates, supplying Covid-19 drug to others: Mohan Bhagwat

The RSS chief also appealed to the people to join the government in this collective effort to combat Covid-19 and reach out to everyone who needs help

Covid-19: US FDA warns against use of hydroxychloroquine outside hospitals

Among some of side effects, heart rhythm abnormalities developed in most of the 84 coronavirus patients treated with hydroxychloroquine

Why India needs random Covid tests

All the data we have thus far garnered about the pandemic indicates that it throws up massive numbers of asymptomatic cases

The self-reliance myth

It is not just that we all, in our personal lives, have rediscovered to our dismay that dependence on too many other people leaves us exposed during crises

We aren't dying in droves as some predicted, but can you handle this truth?

India isn't going through a picnic. But our drains aren't filled with bodies, hospitals haven't run out of beds, crematoriums and graveyards not out of wood or space

Prepare for a Second Wave

As with the Spanish flu, the world must be ready for a second and third wave as this start-stop-start-stop response plays out

USFDA may have dropped standards too far in hunt for Covid-19 drug: Report

Although some rules can be waived in an emergency, the FDA dropped its quality-control standards too far as it scoured the world for scarce supplies of chloroquine drugs.

New multilateralism with old paradigms?

The biggest armies and the biggest economies failed against a microscopic virus - the weakest link undid decades of progress

India agrees to sell HCQ tablets to Malaysia to fight Covid-19: Report

Malaysia had asked for more than one million hydroxychloroquine tablets from India, said sources

Corona complexity

Set economic growth aside, intensify redistribution

India's only quinine making unit set up in 1874, has been shut since 2001

Covid-19 has triggered a sense of urgency to revive this sick unit, as Hydroxychloroquine, an anti-malarial drug, surfaced as potential medicine to alleviate the symptoms of the disease

Covid-19: Govt's response has been panic, with political leadership absent

The unfolding coronavirus crisis could be the toughest test yet for PM Modi. His government failed to recognise the potentially devastating consequences of the pandemic early enough, its actions have

Covid-19 impact: Pharma players join hands to ensure smooth production

Combined capacity utilisation at all-India level is 60-70% - higher than in most other industries

Covid-19: India clears first list of HCQ requests; US to get 3.5 mn tablets

The government on Friday said that there was enough stock of HCQ in the country and it was taking all steps to ensure that there was no shortage of the drug in the domestic market.