Covid 19 Crisis

Delta variant of COVID-19 doubles risk of hospitalisation than Alpha, finds Lancet study

In the study, researchers analysed healthcare data from 43,338 cases in England between 29 March and 23 May, 2021. Only 1.8% of the cases, regardless of variant, had received both doses of the vaccine, 24% had been vaccinated once and 74% were unvaccinated

An Oral History of the COVID-19 Crisis: 'Death had taken hold everywhere I looked and leaned'

This account is part of Firstpost’s Oral History Project of the COVID-19 Crisis in India. The Oral History Project aims to be an ongoing compendium of individual experiences of the pandemic, with a focus on one significant day in our respondents’ lives during this time.

Telangana govt buys 32 luxury SUVs for IAS officers, faces backlash from Oppn for 'criminal splurge' amid COVID crisis

The BJP questioned the state's finance minister's bare minimum fiscal discipline in the current economic situation as his department is releasing crores of rupees for ultra-luxury vehicles

An Oral History of the COVID-19 Crisis: 'Was shocked when a person demanded Rs 1 lakh for plasma'

This account is part of Firstpost’s Oral History Project of the COVID-19 Crisis in India. The Oral History Project aims to be an ongoing compendium of individual experiences of the pandemic, with a focus on one significant day in our respondents’ lives during this time.

An Oral History of the COVID-19 Crisis: 'When we step out, it's as if we've come into an unknown world'

This account is part of Firstpost’s Oral History Project of the COVID-19 Crisis in India. The Oral History Project aims to be an ongoing compendium of individual experiences of the pandemic, with a focus on one significant day in our respondents’ lives during this time.

Sedition law an affront to democracy; both public debate, judicial intervention crucial to remove provision

There is a substantial case to be made for taking section 124(A) or sedition law out of the IPC, given that it has no relevance in a democracy and plenty of scope for misuse

COVID-19 crisis: Unless 70% of global population is vaccinated pandemic won't end, says WHO

The World Health Organization's regional director for Europe Hans Kluge said that one of his main concerns was the increased contagiousness of new variants of the virus

From reducing carbon footprint, to easing pandemic woes, how four-day working week is gaining ground

The five-day workweek is a solution to a century-old problem of increasing production on assembly lines and boosting consumer activity, but there hasn't been much improvement in labour productivity in India since 2016

In a new book, a Peruvian artist publishes 100 drawings documenting the country's COVID-19 crisis

“Each drawing tells a story that had an impact on me,” says the artist, who drew 750 sketches and selected 100 of them for a book called New Coronavirus and Good Government.

COVID-19 deaths in Bihar: 2,579 last rites held in Patna between 1 April-13 May, but govt reports just 2,092 deaths for state

Official accounts from various crematoriums and burial grounds point towards underreporting of COVID-19 deaths in Bhagalpur district, as well. A total 672 COVID-19 victims were cremated from 1 April to 16 May in just one crematorium while official records say only 162 COVID-19 patients died during this period