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Assam: Mob that assaulted doctor, nurses after COVID patient died identified after CM took notice, here are the culprits arrested

OpIndia Staff - 2 June, 2021

A video had gone viral wherein a doctor was being assaulted by a mob after the COVID patient died

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Amidst concerns that Covid third wave could have devastating impact on children, read what medical experts have to say

OpIndia Staff - 1 June, 2021

Experts believe that though children remain susceptible to infection, it is “highly unlikely that the third wave will exclusively affect children".

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Back to square one? State govts’ global tenders for vaccine find no bids, now they want the Centre to buy vaccines for them

Jinit Jain - 1 June, 2021

Several states, including Odisha, Punjab, Maharashtra, Uttar Pradesh, have received no responses to the global tenders floated by them to procure COVID-19 vaccines.

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8,000 children test Covid-19 positive in May in a single district in Maharashtra

OpIndia Staff - 1 June, 2021

While announcing an extension of lockdown, Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray said, "I don’t know when and what date the third wave will come. So we should not let our guard down.”

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Hart Island: Once a psychiatric institution and now the resting place for Covid patients in New York

Dibakar Dutta - 1 June, 2021

Interestingly, Hart Island had witnessed a spike in burials during the height of the AIDS epidemic in the 1980s, although the scale was much lower than the one caused by the Wuhan Coronavirus.

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6-year-old Kashmiri girl’s cute appeal to ‘Modi Sahab’ gets online class load reduced

OpIndia Staff - 1 June, 2021

The video went viral on social media, winning hearts, bringing a smile to everyone's face amid the gloom and doom of the pandemic.

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‘Not possible to cremate dead bodies quietly,’ Yogi refutes allegations of Covid data fudging, explains tradition of Jal Pravah

OpIndia Staff - 31 May, 2021

Yogi Adityanath spoke on varied issues, from Covid to the recently concluded gram panchayat polls in an interview with Economic Times.

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After waiting for a year, police constable Amit Rana’s wife reminds Arvind Kejriwal of compensation, asks why the discrimination

OpIndia Staff - 31 May, 2021

The wife of Amit Kumar Rana, who had succumbed to the infection on May 5, 2020, asked Arvind Kejriwal why the discrimination.

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The tussle between Baba Ramdev and IMA has become an ‘Ayurveda Vs allopathy’ debate. It doesn’t need to be

Jinit Jain - 31 May, 2021

As India grapples with the resurgent coronavirus outbreak, both the Ayurveda and allopathy practitioners and supporters need to realise that both treatments can coexist simultaneously, without the need to discredit the other.

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