Many North-eastern residents of India are being subjected to racism amid the global pandemic because of their facial structure. Recently, a man spat paan on a Manipuri girl while she was on her way to buy groceries and called her ‘corona’ in India. A video doing the rounds of social media shows a group of […]
Neither stigmatization nor racism will cure COVID-19, then why hate? Read Post »
Keeping in mind the global pandemic, the final exams of Grades XI and XII have been postponed for an indefinite period of time, the National Examination Board has informed. The exams of Grades XI and XII were earlier scheduled to begin from May 3 and April 20, respectively. The board exams have been postponed until
XI, XII board exams postponed until further notice Read Post »
Feenzu Sherpa Over the past four months, we have seen COVID-19, which started as a regional infection, become an epidemic, and then a pandemic. We are undergoing one of the world’s worst health crisis as the number of globally infected surged past 1 million on Friday. The virus, which has spread to almost all the
Four stages of coronavirus. Are we prepared for stage 3? Read Post »
U.S.President Donald Trump prepared Americans for a coming surge in coronavirus cases, calling COVID-19 a plague and saying the U.S. could face “hell of a bad two weeks”. White House officials are projecting between 100,000 and 240,000 deaths in the U.S. Dr. Anthony S. Fauci, the nation’s leading infectious disease expert, and Dr. Deborah L.
White House predicts above 100,000 coronavirus deaths in US Read Post »
Constitutionally guaranteed rights and human rights – both seem to have taken a back seat with the lock down. As reports of citizens, mostly migrant workers pouring along the Nepal-India border started surfacing, the two governments sat down – came upon a decision to ban entry to either side, denying citizens of both countries a
Human Rights, Constitutional Rights take back seat during crisis Read Post »
An estimated 350,000 displaced people across Myanmar are “sitting in the path of a public health catastrophe”, says rights group Human Rights Watch (HRW). Overcrowding, movement restrictions and poor sanitation have left these groups especially vulnerable to the coronavirus outbreak, HRW said. Myanmar had its first infections last week and its first death on Monday.
Coronavirus threatens Myanmar’s most vulnerable in displacement camps Read Post »
Google has decided to skip its traditional April Fools’ Day jokes and pranks, a tradition they used to perform across its platforms, due to the coronavirus pandemic. Google’s first onrush into April Fools’ pranks was in 2000 and has its own reputation for pulling epic April Fools’ stunts since. During such crisis, Taylor Herring, whose
Google cancels April Fools’ plans – you should too Read Post »
The government of Nepal has decided to provide an insurance coverage of NRS 25 lakh to health workers and security personnel deployed to prevent an outbreak of coronavirus infection in Nepal. The insurance will cover health workers and security personnel until end of Ashar (15th July, 2020). Doctors, nurses, ambulance drivers and security personnel –
Government to provide NRS 25 lakhs insurance to health and emergency workers Read Post »
World Health Organization (WHO) in 2015 had prepared an emergency guideline about “Implementation and management of contact tracing for Ebola virus disease”. Its model, or at least several aspects of it, can be adapted towards helping reduce the outbreak of COVID-19. The contact tracing process allows identification of people who have symptoms. Prompt isolation reduces
On 15th February, 2020, South Korea had 28 confirmed cases of the novel coronavirus. On the same day, the United States had 15. As of 26th March, 2020, South Korea had 9,332 confirmed cases of the virus – 4,665 currently infected, 4,528 recoveries, and 139 deaths. The United States on the same day had 85,
Track, Trace, Test, Isolate – government lacking in all Read Post »
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