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Kerala govt admits Covid-19 deaths in the state were under-reported till mid-June, decides to add 7,000 deaths to total death toll

OpIndia Staff - 9 October, 2021

Kerala govt has decided to add 7,000 deaths to the state’s Covid-19 death tally after allegations of under-reporting of deaths emerged.

News Reports

71% of adult Indians given first dose of Covid vaccine, oxygen production increased 10 times, prepared to handle 5L daily cases: NITI Aayog

OpIndia Staff - 8 October, 2021

“India’s ability to build infrastructure to deal with the Covid outbreak in such a short period of time is a symbol of our determination, service and solidarity, PM Modi had remarked recently.

World

Anthony Fauci’s NIAID funded institute that trained researchers at Wuhan lab that housed fatal aerosol-borne viruses, reveals leaked email

OpIndia Staff - 4 October, 2021

LeDuc told Dr ANthony Fauci about the importance of 'building collaborations' and opportunities to meet 'important leaders of China.'

News Reports

Canada: Woman arrested for allegedly not showing ‘vaccination status’, forcibly taken away and banned from public arena

OpIndia Staff - 3 October, 2021

Woman arrested by police officials in Canada for alleged 'trespassing' after she refused to provide information about her vaccination status

News Reports

India reciprocates to UK’s travel guidelines, imposes mandatory Covid-19 tests, 10-day quarantine for all travellers from the UK

OpIndia Staff - 1 October, 2021

India imposes 10 day quarantine for travellers from UK after the UK refused to accept India's Covid-19 vaccine certificates issued through CoWIN

News Reports

Canadian military used Covid-19 pandemic to test propaganda techniques on citizens, reveals a report by Canadian Forces

OpIndia Staff - 1 October, 2021

Canadian military had started to test propaganda technique on Canadian citizens during Covid-19 without the approval of govt

OpIndia Explains

Britain doesn’t have enough truck drivers, and now it doesn’t have enough fuel. Read about the fuel crisis where army could get involved

Akshita Bhadauria - 28 September, 2021

The British Petroleum on Sunday said that nearly a third of its petrol stations in the country had run out of the two main grades of fuel.

News Reports

Surge in Covid-19 cases in Mizoram causes concern, infection high among youths

OpIndia Staff - 25 September, 2021

Mizoram has third highest number of active Covid-19 cases in the country, after Kerala, Maharashtra and Tamil Nadu

Media

Spinning fiction? Siddharth Varadarajan’s ‘Paris cafe’ claims on vaccine certificate don’t quite add up, what the authorities say

OpIndia Staff - 22 September, 2021

Whether Varadarajan was just spinning stories or indeed telling the truth is a not something we could fact-check till someone puts us in touch with that particular waiter from that cafe, here is what the French authorities say about vaccination certificates.

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