India News: NEW DELHI: Union health secretary Rajesh Bhushan on Sunday chaired a high-level video meeting with all the states/UTs on Covid-19 situation in the cou.
Next step: With no proper breaks and no end in sight, the government healthcare which has been the backbone of Covid management needs to look at increasing its manpower
“Please don t take Coronavirus lightly”, this was the last message of Dr Dimple Arora, a dentist to the public before she passed away on Mother’s Day. Her husband Ravish Chawla released this last video which cautioned people: “Don t take corona lightly. Bad symptoms. I m not able to speak. Please don t be irresponsible.”
A few days earlier, another doctor had tweeted, “Please don’t call me after duty hours. I need some time for my family.” This found a lot of response from the medical community, each sharing their story of how people weren’t giving them their little private space.
A large number of people in rural India want, but arent getting, vaccines or tests done because of the shortage of health facilities and vaccines. But alongside is the massive wall of suspicion, rumours, fake news and fear driving the hesitation, or plain refusal to both vaccine and testing.
The robots are coming. to clean up after us
The robots are coming. to clean up after us
ByHemanth CSHemanth CS / Updated: May 12, 2021, 06:00 IST
A worker disinfects an IT company premises
In many foreign countries, airports and retail chains have been opting for robotic janitors to clean and spray disinfectants in public spaces and washrooms. And the covid-19 pandemic has only hastened more to adopt
robots for such work. Closer home, an initative has begun to develop and demonstrate a robotic janitor whose task is to keep a washroom spick and span.
ARTPARK, a joint initiative of
Indian Institute of Science (IISc) and AI Foundry earlier this year, had initiated