India is currently under a 21-day nationwide lockdown to contain the spread of Covid-19. Prime Minister Narendra Modi described it as a ne...
- India is currently under a 21-day nationwide lockdown to contain the spread of Covid-19. Prime Minister Narendra Modi described it as a necessary measure to ensure the country is not taken backwards by 21 years. But given the economic fallout and the impact of the lockdown on the poor, Debraj Ray and S Subramanian explore in Scroll.in if there is an alternative to a total lockdown.
- Police across the country have resorted to violence to enforce the lockdown. Priyanka Thirumurthy for The News Minute reports on the police excesses in South India.
- With the global community blaming the communist regime in China for holding back information that led to the Covid-19 pandemic, Beijing’s propaganda machine has turned its guns on the coronavirus narrative online, says this piece on Pro Publica.
- Aggressive screening may have helped contain the Covid-19 spread in the United States. But a month lost to regulatory hurdles and technical flaws has ensured that the country now has the largest number of active cases of the viral infection, The New York Times reports.
- Italy has recorded the highest number of deaths in the pandemic, surpassing even China. What can we learn from Italy’s mistakes? This Harvard Business Review piece traces Italy’s response to the coronavirus and the lessons.
- The response to Covid-19 has typically been to limit the spread of virus...
