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  • The coronavirus outbreak, which has triggered a global health scare, has alarmed health officials in India

    The coronavirus outbreak, which has triggered a global health scare, has alarmed health officials in India, following a spike in new cases being reported from various states over the past two weeks. As on March 9, a total of 43 confirmed COVID-19 cases were reported in India, with the latest patients including a three-year-old child in Kerala’s Ernakulam district and a 63-year-old woman in Jammu and Kashmir. A day earlier, five people tested positive for COVID-19 (the disease caused by novel coronavirus) in Kerala.

    Kerala incidentally was also the first Indian state to report a positive coronavirus case on January 30. The patient was a student studying in China and had returned home on account of the Lunar New Year festivities.

    In a span of four days, two other positive coronavirus cases were reported in Kerala, prompting the local government to declare a state emergency on February 3. These three patients were immediately put in isolation at state medical facilities and over 3,400 people who were suspected to have come in contact with them were put in quarantines and observed for coronavirus-related symptoms. Days later, the three positive cases were discharged following treatment.

    Between February 3 and March 1, India saw a calm phase in regards to the global coronavirus outbreak as no new case was reported. But things have changed rapidly since then as between March 1 and March 9, 40 people have tested positive for COVID-19. These cases have been reported from Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Telangana, Uttar Pradesh, Delhi, Rajasthan, Haryana, J&K and Ladakh.

  • The fear is real, of course, as the number of infected people in India continues to rise every single day

    The fear is real, of course, as the number of infected people in India continues to rise every single day

    Just the mention of ‘Coronavirus’ is enough to cause a minor panic, making people tighten their face masks and press down their sanitizer nozzles, while ears pricked for the sound of a cough. The fear is real, of course, as the number of infected people in India continues to rise every single day.

    Our new normal is living in a COVID-19 infected world, whether you like it or not. This tiny parasite that you can’t even see is causing such unprecedented havoc across the world, analysts say its economic cost is already reaching the levels of the Great Recession of 2008.

  • The protesters were demanding jobs, saying they had cleared the elementary teacher training (ETT) and qualified the Teacher Eligibility Test (TET), but they were still jobless

    The Punjab Police lathicharged unemployed teachers on Sunday to foil their march towards Chief Minister Amarinder Singh’s residence in Patiala, resulting in injuries to five of them.

    One of the teachers jumped into the Bhakra canal. He was rescued immediately.

    Police said some members of the force were also injured.

    The protesters were demanding jobs, saying they had cleared the elementary teacher training (ETT) and qualified the Teacher Eligibility Test (TET), but they were still jobless.

    The protesters included women teachers.

    The Opposition Shiromani Akali Dal has condemned the lathicharge.

    “The SAD condemns the brutal lathicharge by police on unemployed teachers in Patiala,” said party spokesperson and former state Education Minister Daljit Singh Cheema in a tweet.

    He said the way women teachers were manhandled and assaulted was a matter of shame for the whole state.

    “Instead of listening and assuring them, the Cong govt is suppressing their voice,” the SAD spokesperson said in the tweet.