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8,000 children test Covid-19 positive in May in a single district in Maharashtra

OpIndia Staff - 1 June, 2021

While announcing an extension of lockdown, Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray said, "I don’t know when and what date the third wave will come. So we should not let our guard down.”

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Hart Island: Once a psychiatric institution and now the resting place for Covid patients in New York

Dibakar Dutta - 1 June, 2021

Interestingly, Hart Island had witnessed a spike in burials during the height of the AIDS epidemic in the 1980s, although the scale was much lower than the one caused by the Wuhan Coronavirus.

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6-year-old Kashmiri girl’s cute appeal to ‘Modi Sahab’ gets online class load reduced

OpIndia Staff - 1 June, 2021

The video went viral on social media, winning hearts, bringing a smile to everyone's face amid the gloom and doom of the pandemic.

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‘Not possible to cremate dead bodies quietly,’ Yogi refutes allegations of Covid data fudging, explains tradition of Jal Pravah

OpIndia Staff - 31 May, 2021

Yogi Adityanath spoke on varied issues, from Covid to the recently concluded gram panchayat polls in an interview with Economic Times.

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After waiting for a year, police constable Amit Rana’s wife reminds Arvind Kejriwal of compensation, asks why the discrimination

OpIndia Staff - 31 May, 2021

The wife of Amit Kumar Rana, who had succumbed to the infection on May 5, 2020, asked Arvind Kejriwal why the discrimination.

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The tussle between Baba Ramdev and IMA has become an ‘Ayurveda Vs allopathy’ debate. It doesn’t need to be

Jinit Jain - 31 May, 2021

As India grapples with the resurgent coronavirus outbreak, both the Ayurveda and allopathy practitioners and supporters need to realise that both treatments can coexist simultaneously, without the need to discredit the other.

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Aligarh empty vaccine case: Initial investigation reveals nurse Niha Khan had criminal mindset, could hamper vaccination drive. Details

OpIndia Staff - 31 May, 2021

Niha Khan confessed to inserting injections inside the body of the vaccine recipients but taking them out without releasing the vaccine.

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The origins of Covid-19: A laboratory-made virus and a massive cover-up by culpable parties? An analysis

OpIndia Staff - 31 May, 2021

After almost 1.5 years since pandemic broke, it is still unclear how Covid-19 originated, thanks to irresponsible behavior of some scientists and the Chinese government.

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While Gehlot govt denies vaccine wastage in Rajasthan, 500 vials with around 2500 doses found in garbage

OpIndia Staff - 31 May, 2021

News outlet Bhaskar found over 500 vials with 2500 doses that were discarded in the garbage in 35 vaccination centres across 8 districts in Rajasthan.

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