[COVID Warriors] This NGO is caring for children who lost their parents to COVID-19
SOS Children’s Villages is caring for children, for both short-term and long-term, whose parents are either suffering or have succumbed to COVID-19.
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SOS Children’s Villages is caring for children, for both short-term and long-term, whose parents are either suffering or have succumbed to COVID-19.
Five senior pilots of Air India lost their lives to Covid-19 in May, officials said on Thursday.
Ramesh Ram, 31, is listed as a textile industry staff worker in the administration's database of migrant workers in south west Bihar's Kaimur district. But for the last three years, Ram has worked as a contract labourer among the tens of thousands employed at the Alang ship-breaking and recycling yard in Gujarat, making enough to get by. Today, Ram is back in his village, with no work, no capital to till his small parcel of land, and living in penury with his family of six, which includes three young daughters aged 6, 8 and 10. Even before the second Covid-19 wave hit India this February, ...
URL copied COVID lockdowns increased screen time, insomnia: Study. Increased evening screen time during the Covid-19 lockdown negatively affected sleep quality, finds a new study. The researchers, from the University of L'Aquila in Italy, found decreased sleep quality, an increase in insomnia symptoms, shorter total sleep times, and later bedtimes and rising times among the 92.9 per cent participants who reported an increase in their electronic device usage during the shutdown. Conversely, participants who reported a decrease in evening screen time (only 7 per cent) reported improve...
URL copied Image Source : AP Autorickshaw and cab drivers wait to receive the AstraZeneca vaccine during a special vaccination drive in Hyderabad, India. We can vaccinate one crore people in a day, this is definitely ambitious but not impossible, Chief Economic Advisor KV Subramanian said on Thursday, as country makes continuous efforts to ramp up the inoculation drive. "India will be able to achieve vaccination for all by December. If we vaccinate people in three shifts each day, then, we can vaccinate 1 crore people in a day. This is definitely ambitiou...