MoHFW asked states and UTs to follow June 2022 guidelines and follow 5-fold strategy of test-track-treat-vaccination and adherence to COVID Appropriate Behavior amidst rising Covid cases worldwide
The BBC quoted epidemiologist Wu Zunyou as saying that this may be the beginning of a 'first wave'. He has predicted that the second wave will be in late January when mass travel due to the Chinese New Year celebrations will spread infection.
"We're being worked to the bone! Over 10 of our 60 staff are positive for Covid but we have no choice," said one crematorium. Meanwhile, another one added that they were cremating 20 bodies a day, mostly old people.
The Madras High Court dismissed the lawyer's plea and imposed a fine of Rs 10,000 on him. The petition was filed against the order of the Tamilnadu government making masks compulsory in Chennai.
This is a relatively new sense, something that has been around only since 2019. Why 2019? Because until then, they were willing to believe that 2014 was an exception. That the Congress would soon come back to power.