The number of people who have recuperated from the disease surged to 86,04,955 pushing the national recovery rate to 93.76 per cent
36 deaths have been reported since Friday evening -- 12 from Madhya Pradesh, 10 from Gujarat, seven from Maharashtra, four from Delhi and one each from Andhra Pradesh, Bihar and Jammu and Kashmir. Of the 488 deaths, Maharashtra tops the list with 201 fatalities, followed by Madhya Pradesh at 69, Gujarat at 48 and Delhi at 42 and Telangana at 18.
One in three professionals in India is burnt out due to increased workload and stress, as the pandemic forces them to work remotely, even as the majority of the workforce feels they would want to return to work in some form, a study by professional network LinkedIn has found. LinkedIn on Tuesday launched findings of the "Future of Work" perception study by research firm Censuswide that focuses on the insights of 1,108 respondents in the age group of 16 to 68, who have worked from home during the pandemic due to Covid-19 restrictions. The survey captures the sentiment of the Indian workforce towards the impact of remote work, their plans to return to work, and work model preferences for the future.
Whenever the Census operation resumes, it will capture the impact of Covid-19 to a large extent, including the extra-lethal second wave, reports Abhishek Waghmare.
The 10,200-bed facility was inaugurated on July 5 last year and was operated by the Indo-Tibetan Border Police. The centre was 1,700 feet long and 700 feet wide -- roughly the size of 20 football fields -- and had 200 enclosures with 50 beds each.
With schools closing down, many girls and their female family members in rural and urban areas now don't have access to sanitary pads.
'And they are going to be milder because we are dealing with the vaccinated and are much richer in terms of the immune response in the population.'
Unless public health is prioritised over swift re-opening, the chances are that a third wave will hit India sooner than we would like.
Scientists and medical experts are concerned about how things might look next summer, a year after the Tokyo Games were postponed.
The rate of immunisation is low mainly because of rumours that the vaccines would have a sterilising effect on the children.
The sero-surveillance started on June 3 and 6,936 samples out of an estimated 8,870 were collected from slum and non-slum population of three civic wards -- R-North, M-West and F-North -- in the first half of July.
'There will be increases.' 'There is bound to be, but you have to bear with all this.' 'The focus should be to provide optimum care for those who are in the need.' 'We should focus more on care, better care. Not on testing.'
The crisis in Indian banking has now reached a point where the NPAs of many public-sector banks are higher than their net worth
Never let self-doubt get in your way and the fear of rejection stop you from growing.
The other dominant fear among the people is the irrational behaviour of people, once the lockdown is lifted.
According to the health ministry's data updated at 8 am, the number of recoveries exceeds active cases by 2,81,668.
The NHRC said that it has received several complaints regarding the ongoing farmers' protest.
'You know the factors against you and those in favour, and you use the weapons you have in accordance with the strategy you've developed.'
It said the actual caseload of COVID-19 cases in the country as on date is 3,42,756, while more than 6.35 lakhs patients have recuperated from the disease.
'Sarkar jo bhi gana gaye, is bar sarkar paltegi'
Half of the Japanese public think the 2020 Olympics will take place this summer, a survey by the Yomiuri daily newspaper showed on Monday, despite most people opposing holding the Games during the COVID-19 pandemic.
13,660 km. 40 million Biharis participate in this year's 'world's longest' human chain.
On the ground, rural medical infrastructure and more crucially, women's access to reproductive health services is practically non-existent in Uttar Pradesh, reports Geetanjali Krishna.
A dipstick survey covering 30 villages in Rajasthan threw up some worrisome numbers. About 250 children missed their regular vaccination schedule in March alone. These numbers are alarming, since India has around 600,000 villages according to the 2011 census. Sohini Das reports.
Dr Mishra further explained the effect of hybrid immunity on the vaccinated population and said that it is likely to give protection to people along with the Indian vaccines administered.
An increasing number of hiring managers are opting for video conferencing platforms to know the candidates, explains Narayan Bhargava, chairman and managing director, Calibehr.
Behind the state's success in containing coronavirus positive cases is one novel initiative -- Active Case Finding or ACF, which even Prime Minister Narendra Modi endorsed for the bigger states to follow. The ACF campaign began in April with 16,000 basic health personnel, ASHA, anganwadi workers and auxiliary nurse midwives (ANM) out on foot trekking to most mountain valleys, snow-bound districts and remote passes of the state, reports Ashwani Sharma.
There are 9,75,861 active cases of the coronavirus infection in the country which comprises 17.54 per cent of the total caseload, the data stated.
The Confederation of All India Traders has approached Union Home Minister Amit Shah, Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan, Delhi Lieutenant Governor Anil Baijal, and Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, and urged them to shut markets in Delhi.
This is the seventh consecutive day that COVID-19 cases have increased by more than 45,000.
This is the seventh consecutive day that COVID-19 cases have increased by more than 50,000.
A video of the CEO dancing along with her staffers is winning the Internet and encouraging other leaders to make workplaces happier.
In the run-up to the polls, a survey has revealed that better employment opportunities is the single most important issue for citizens and that the government has fared below average in this aspect.
As per a new study, people who were physically active were less likely to experience a new episode of depression.
Only 29 per cent of the adolescents surveyed could identify depression as a medical condition, says Pankaj Gupta.
Epidemiologists worry there's little or no data being shared on mortality by age group and contacts traced, which makes it difficult to understand how the effects of Covid-19 might be different in the Indian population, reports Ruchika Chitravanshi
Surveys suggest that the AAP would win 40 seats in the 182-member assembly if elections are held tomorrow.
Gates, 66, on Tuesday, said that "I know it's frustrating to go into another holiday season with COVID looming over us. But it won't be like this forever. Someday the pandemic will end, and the better we look after each other, the sooner that time will come."
A day after Cyclone Yaas tore through coastal Odisha and Bengal to cause havoc as far as Jharkhand, tornadoes, torrential rains, bridge collapses and swelling rivers continued to plague eastern India as people tried to pick up their lives amid the debris of swept away mud homes and swamped farmlands.
According to a recent study, 89 per cent working women from India believed that it is important to have ambitions compared to the global average of 59 per cent
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