India reported its first COVID-19 case on January 30, 2020. Although the havoc that this pandemic was about to wreak could hardly be expected there at that point, that very day, the WHO declared it a global emergen...
MUMBAI, April 1 (Xinhua) -- Asia's largest slum located in India's financial capital of Mumbai has reported the first COVID-19 case, a 56-year-old person, on Wednesday evening. Seven members of the person's family have been quarantined and the tests on them will be conducted on Thursd...
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On January 30, 2020, India recorded its first COVID-19 positive case in Kerala, which was followed by a nationwide lockdown extended in four different phases from 25th March to 31st May, 2020, and an unlock period thereafter. The lockdown has led to colossal economic loss to India; howeve...
The ‘India, Coping with COVID-19 in Slums’ subnational sample was drawn from research undertaken by the Nova School of Business and Economics, The Institute for Fiscal Studies, and the University of St Andrews. The target population was a random subset of slum populations in Lucknow and Kanp...
The first case of COVID-19 in India was reported on 30 January 2020 in Kerala, a southern state (PIB, 2020). After a preventive social distancing initiative on 22 March 2020 in the form of a 14 -h self-quarantine curfew called the ‘Janata Curfew’, the Government of India (GoI) ...
-- India's COVID-19 cases reach 9,152, death toll climbs to 308; -- Tokyo reports 91 new cases of COVID-19, Japan's total infections climb to 7,545; -- Australian health officials say it's "too early" to relax restrictions; ...
Rwanda has registered its first COVID 19 case on March 14. The first patient was identified to be an Indian citizen who arrived from Mumbai, India, on March 8 and later tested positive of COVID19. Rwanda has fortunat...
India's case fatality rate (CFR) under covid-19 is strikingly low, with a current level of around 1.7%. The world average rate is far higher. Several observers have noted that this difference is at least partly due to India's younger age distribution. We use age-specific fatality rates ...
One more person tested positive for COVID-19 in India on Sunday, taking the total to 40 in the country. The latest case was found in the southern state of Tamil Nadu, confirmed the state's Health Secretary Beela Rajesh. According to her, a total of 60 samples were taken from passengers...