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Vaccine inequities: On need to vaccinate all above 45

February 25, 2021 Divya Bharat 0 Comments awareness, Census data, comorbidities., CoWIN platform, diabetes, documentary evidence, editorial, government, government sites, health-care and frontline workers, high-risk priority groups, hypertension, private hospitals across India, vaccinating all those over 45 years of age, vaccination coverage, Vaccine inequities

The decision to open up about 20,000 private hospitals across India from March 1 — in addition to about 10,000

Boosting confidence: On need for efficient use of COVID-19 vaccine stocks

February 14, 2021 Divya Bharat 0 Comments available stocks of vaccine, Boosting confidence, Covaxin, Covid antibodies, Covishield, downward trend in fresh coronavirus infections in India, editorial, frontline workers, government, health ministry data, health-care workers, pandemic

The government should ensure that the available stocks of vaccine are used efficiently The downward trend in fresh coronavirus infections

Tender cut: On cryptocurrencies and regulation

February 11, 2021 Divya Bharat 0 Comments ambit of the state, Anurag Thakur, Bitcoin, blockchain technology, china, cryptocurrencies, cryptocurrency exchanges, editorial, government, illicit Internet transactions, Minister of State for Finance, Rajya Sabha, RBI, smart regulation, Supreme Court, Tender cut, Tesla founder Elon Musk

Instead of shutting out cryptocurrencies, the government must ensure smart regulation The government’s statement about bringing in a law on

Origin and spread: On the source of SARS-CoV-2

February 10, 2021 Divya Bharat 0 Comments China CDC, conspiracy theories, direct human influence, editorial, fresh outbreaks, Hubei resident, human-to-human transmission, laboratory in China’s Wuhan, letter in The Lancet, natural bat habitat, Origin and spread, SARS outbreak, scientific investigation, source of SARS-CoV-2, The New England Journal of Medicine, transmission via frozen food, virus genome sequence data, virus leak, who team, Wildlife

By concluding that a virus leak from a laboratory in China’s Wuhan, where the SARS-CoV-2 virus first emerged, is “extremely

Cutting trans fat: On healthier food

February 9, 2021 Divya Bharat 0 Comments bad cholesterol, cardiovascular diseases, Cutting trans fat, dairy products, denmark, edible oils and fats, editorial, emulsions, EU, European Commission, european union, fats, Food Safety and Standards Authority of India, FSSAI, good cholesterol, government’s notification, HDL, healthier substitutes, high temperature, india, large multinational food companies, LDL, limiting industrial trans fat, lipoprotein cholesterol profile, margarines, red meat, taste or cost of food, total oils

Healthier substitutes without any change in the taste or cost of food are now available Come January 1, 2022, India

Getting back on track: on Union Budget 2021

February 1, 2021 Divya Bharat 0 Comments and tertiary care capacities, consumption demand, COVID-19 vaccination programme, disinvestment goal, economic setback, Economic Survey, editorial, FDI in insurance, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, foreign ownership limit, Getting back on track, health spending in the current fiscal year, increase in the budgetary outlay on health and wellbeing, India’s public health infrastructure, national infrastructure pipeline, one-time expenditure, PM Atma Nirbhar Swasth Bharat Yojana, Primary, public health infrastructure, secondary, State polls, stewardship of the economy, this year’s Budget

In times that call for deft stewardship of the economy, this year’s Budget is a starting point Finance Minister Nirmala

Tempered optimism: On India’s sliding COVID-19 graph

January 28, 2021 Divya Bharat 0 Comments agitations, brazil, case decline, cinema theatres, citizens, containment and caution, course of the coronavirus pandemic, declining infection rates, demand contraction for goods and services, DGCA, distancing, economy, editorial, election campaigns, enforcement of public health measures, europe, exhibitions, face masks, further relaxation of activity curbs, further relaxation of international air travel, further relaxations, gatherings, genetic mutations of the coronavirus in South Africa, Germany, guidelines for surveillance, Home Ministry, india, India’s declining infections, inter-city rail services, Kerala and Maharashtra, lack of transparency on vaccine efficacy data, legal requirements, masks of N95 or FFP2 standards, MHA unlock advisory, new cases and deaths, no access to vaccination, policymakers, poor communication, poorer countries, protocols for public activity, public activity, ready pharmaceutical remedies, rich countries running out of vaccines, road to universal vaccination, scheduled flights, second generation vaccines, seropositivity surveys, spate of infectuions, spitting in public, staggering of working hours, states, swimming pools, Tempered optimism, U.K., vaccine hesitancy, virus variants, workplace sanitisation

Even with declining infection rates, public activity needs to be guided by caution The course of the coronavirus pandemic in

Many vulnerabilities: On using blockchains in electronic voting

January 26, 2021 Divya Bharat 0 Comments COVID-19 pandemic, cryptographic signatures, data security and verifiability, draft paper, eci, editorial, Election Commission of India, electronic voting, electronic voting machine, IIT-Madras, mail-in ballot system, Many vulnerabilities, MIT and Harvard researchers, paper balloting, remote block-chain-based voting system, remote voting project, robustness of blockchains, u.s., Voter Verifiable Paper Audit Trail, vvpat

The much discussed and debated Electronic Voting Machine in India has survived intense scrutiny over its use largely because of

After the storm: On tightening scrutiny of large NBFCs

January 24, 2021 Divya Bharat 0 Comments After the storm, editorial, finance companies, financial stability, financing needs, home loans, india, large infrastructure projects, micro-finance, NBFC balance sheets, NBFCs, non-banking financial companies, Parliament, regulatory approach, regulatory framework, Reserve Bank of India, scrutiny of large NBFCs, shadow banks

The RBI’s plan to tighten scrutiny of large NBFCs is critical for financial stability The RBI has proposed a significant

Fire warning: On Serum Institute blaze

January 22, 2021 Divya Bharat 0 Comments automatic fire detection systems, COVAX initiative, deadly fire, defence, editorial, fire drills, fire safety, Fire warning, high-technology sectors, Indian production, institution of global importance, mechanical or manual ventilation, Oxford-AstraZeneca Covishield COVID-19 vaccine, Pune, Serum Institute blaze, Serum Institute of India, SII, site security, space, sprinkler systems, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, temperature-sensitive pharmaceutical products, upcoming production facility, WHO, WHO Director-General, zero tolerance safety protocols

The Serum Institute blaze highlights the need for zero tolerance safety protocols The deadly fire in an upcoming production facility

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