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China’s Wuhan Raises COVID-19 Death Toll By 50%, Admits To Missed Cases
17 Apr

China’s Wuhan Raises COVID-19 Death Toll By 50%, Admits To Missed Cases

editor0 CommentsHealth, Technology
China's coronavirus ground-zero city of Wuhan on Friday admitted missteps in tallying its death toll, and abruptly raised the count by 50 percent following growing world doubts about Chinese transparency.The United States has led the charge in questioning China's handling of the pandemic and how much information it has really shared with the international community since the virus emerged late last year.Authorities in Wuhan initially tried to cover up the outbreak, punishing doctors who had raised the alarm online in December, and there have been questions about the government's recording of infections as it repeatedly changed its counting criteria at…
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Delhi Man Dies Of COVID-19, Guard Blamed For Infection Tests Negative
16 Apr

Delhi Man Dies Of COVID-19, Guard Blamed For Infection Tests Negative

editor0 CommentsHealth, North East
A security guard who was accused of infecting a family of 3 with COVID-19 in Delhi's Defence Colony, got tested recently and the reports were found to be negative. The three family members were being treated in Max Hospital, Saket. An elderly man in his 80s died yesterday and his son is on the ventilator. The man's wife has recovered and has been discharged.The family had blamed their security guard, accusing him of visiting the Tablighi Jamaat gathering last month, which emerged as a major virus hotspot linked to cases across the country.
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Pandemic could trigger social unrest in some countries: IMF
15 Apr

Pandemic could trigger social unrest in some countries: IMF

editor0 CommentsHealth, Lifestyle
New waves of social unrest could erupt in some countries if government measures to mitigate the coronavirus pandemic are seen as insufficient or unfairly favoring the wealthy, the IMF said in a new report on Wednesday. Governments had already spent nearly $8 trillion to combat the pandemic and mitigate the economic fallout, but more fiscal stimulus would be needed once the crisis abated, the global lender said in its semi-annual Fiscal Monitor. The spike in spending would sharply widen fiscal deficits, with global public debt set to rise 13 percentage points to more than 96% of gross domestic product in…
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Sports photographer for The New York Post died Sunday from the new coronavirus.
14 Apr

Sports photographer for The New York Post died Sunday from the new coronavirus.

editor0 CommentsHealth, Sports
Anthony Causi, a highly skilled and exceedingly popular sports photographer for The New York Post who covered the city’s teams for 25 years, died Sunday from the new coronavirus. He was 48. The newspaper reported Causi’s death on its website Sunday night and included an image of Monday’s back page. It featured a photo of Causi holding a camera with a long lens and the words “Our Eyes, Our Heart” and then below: “And our city’s loss.” Causi was married with two young children. Many of New York’s professional teams and several players posted messages on Twitter expressing sadness, condolences…
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Bolt goes viral with ‘social distancing’ Olympic photo
14 Apr

Bolt goes viral with ‘social distancing’ Olympic photo

editor0 CommentsHealth, Lifestyle, Sports
Retired track star Usain Bolt showed he's still a few steps ahead when he posted an AFP picture of him outstripping his rivals at the Beijing Olympics with the cheeky caption: "social distancing". Bolt's post, featuring a picture by AFP photographer Nicolas Asfouri of the 2008 Olympics 100m final, blew up on social media, drawing more than half a million likes and 90,000 retweets. It showed the Jamaican crossing the finish line at the Bird's Nest stadium in a then-world record time of 9.69sec, glancing round from lane four as his despairing competitors trail two paces behind. "Savage", commented one…
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Tokyo Olympic CEO hints games could be in doubt even in 2021
10 Apr

Tokyo Olympic CEO hints games could be in doubt even in 2021

editor0 CommentsEntertainment, Health, Sports, Travel
As the coronavirus spreads in Japan, the chief executive of the Tokyo Games said Friday he can’t guarantee the postponed Olympics will be staged next year — even with the long delay. Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe issued an emergency declaration this week to battle the virus, putting the country under restrictions after it seemed it had avoided the spread. “I don’t think anyone would be able to say if it is going to be possible to get it under control by next July or not,” Tokyo organizing committee CEO Toshiro Muto said, speaking through an interpreter at a news…
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SAARC officials discuss impact of COVID-19
10 Apr

SAARC officials discuss impact of COVID-19

editor0 CommentsBusiness, Health
As follow up action of the announcement made by the Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the video conference of SAARC leaders on March 15, a video conference of senior trade officials of SAARC countries was held on Wednesday to discuss the impact of travel restrictions and the larger COVID-19 situation on intra-regional trade. Demonstrating keen shared interest and a problem-solving approach in the present challenging circumstances, all countries contributed actively to the discussions on a wide-ranging trade related agenda. “It was recognised in the conference that the COV- ID-19 pandemic is likely to have a considerable adverse impact on…
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Rakul Preet Helps 200 Families in Delhi Slum
07 Apr

Rakul Preet Helps 200 Families in Delhi Slum

editor0 CommentsEntertainment, Health, Lifestyle, North East
At the time of crisis, those celebs who respond and serve the needy are often hailed as the real big stars. And though some put the numbers they have donated on social media, some don't. But they silently doe their charity and it looks like even starlet Rakul Preet Singh comes under the same category. Apparently Rakul's family is right now settled in Delhi and they are said to have identified a slum of 200 families which stays close to their Gurgaon residence in the national capital. Along with the people of their society, Rakul Preet's father and other family…
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Family – A short film by Indian Superstars
07 Apr

Family – A short film by Indian Superstars

editor0 CommentsBusiness, Entertainment, Health, Lifestyle, Technology
The corona virus lockdown has impacted daily wage workers and the poor. Many NGOs, volunteers are helping the people who are in need in whatever way they can. Simultaneously, the virus has affected the film industry too. It's the cine workers who are struggling to make the ends meet and the respective industries have stepped up to help these people. But now the whole of Indian film industry has come together and a short film has been made with Superstars of Hindi, Telugu, Tamil, Malayalam, Kannada, Bengali and other languages. Well the short film starts with India's biggest star Amitabh…
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Corona: WhatsApp Limits Message Forwarding
07 Apr

Corona: WhatsApp Limits Message Forwarding

editor0 CommentsBusiness, Entertainment, Health, Lifestyle
In order to slow down the Corona Virus misinformation which is widely shared online, the cross-platform messaging and Voice over IP service WhatsApp has decided to limit the message forwarding on its platform. Since WhatsApp amounts to the largest sharing of information across the globe, Facebook Inc's WhatsApp tightened message forwarding limits on Tuesday and the decision is taken at its head office at San Francisco. The new move restricts its users in sharing forwarded content one chat at a time. "We believe it's important to slow the spread of these messages down to keep WhatsApp a place for personal…
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