Coronavirus Disease Weekly News 25April 2021
The news posted last week for the coronavirus 2019-nCoV (aka SARS-CoV-2), which produces COVID-19 disease, has been surveyed and some important articles are summarized here. The articles are more or less organized with general virus news and anecdotes first, then stories from around the US, followed by an increased number of items from other countries around the globe. Economic news related to COVID-19 is found here.
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both new Covid cases and US deaths attributed to the virus were lower during the past week. New Covid infections during the week ending April 24th were down 16.3% from during the week ending April 17th, and down 76.7% from the early January peak. US Covid deaths were down 2.0% from the prior week, and down 79.0% from the January peak. New infections in the states that had been leading the early spring surge, including Mi
Why India lags behind in imparting skills to its workforce
A vast number of young people in India lack the key skills needed to be employable, according to recent surveys. Upskilling the workforce could boost India s economy by hundreds of billions of dollars.
Job seekers line up outside the venue of a job fair in Chinchwad in February 2019
India has one of the largest workforces in the world: With nearly 500 million people of working age, the domestic labor market is second only to China s and far bigger than those of the United States and the EU.
India also has a much younger population, with an average age of 26.8 years. Tens of millions of students graduate from colleges across the country every year, entering the workforce.
Chinese Media Intensify Attacks on India
State-run media criticize India s relations with US, accuse it of responsibility for pandemic, question its vaccines
NEW DELHI The China regime’s media war on India has gained pace and spice since last year’s bloody clash in the Galwan Valley, with Chinese media offering counter-narratives and reports on topics that include the COVID-19 pandemic, the competition for selling vaccines, and India–U.S. relations.
An opinion article published by the Chinese state-run outlet Global Times on Jan. 19 blamed India for using the deterioration of U.S.–China relations to advance its political and economic interests through tighter ties with the United States.
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India, where six cases of the UK mutant strain of Covid-19 were discovered, will expand the scope of genomic analysis. It will genetically sequence one in every 20 (5 per cent) active Covid-19 positive cases to understand mutations occurring to the SARS-CoV2 virus, officials said.
“An important development is the establishment of INSACOG, which is a consortium of 10 government labs across the country to do genome sequencing of SARS-CoV-2 as well as any variant of that virus. These labs belong to the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR), the Department of Biotechnology and the Health Ministry,” said Health Secretary Rajesh Bhushan at a press conference here on Tuesday.
Express News Service
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: There are umpteen challenges before the state which is now at the top slot at the national-level for having the most number of active COVID-19 cases and daily caseload.
While Maharashtra is just behind the state in the number of cases, the former has implemented precautionary measures like night curfew in view of upcoming festivities like the Christmas and New Year. Kerala, which is expecting an exponential curve of new infections in the coming days is yet to consider such measures.
The state is also found to be least bothered to undertake high-end research studies like genomic sequencing to keep a tab on emerging challenges like the mutant version of Coronavirus which is spreading rapidly in some countries, especially the UK.