Tag Archives: SARS-CoV-2

• Indians light lamps to heed Modi’s call for coronavirus comradeship 5 April 2020 | Rajendra Jadhav and Ruma Paul This post has 2 comments

  Millions of Indians turned off their lights and lit up balconies and doorsteps with lamps, candles and flashlights on Sunday, in response to Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s appeal to “challenge the darkness” spread by the coronavir ...

• Indian state authorities warn coronavirus lockdown could be extended 4 April 2020 | Rajendra Jadhav and Rupam Jain This post has one comment

  Authorities in some states warned on Saturday that lockdowns to rein in the coronavirus pandemic could be extended in parts of the nation as the number of domestic coronavirus cases rose above the 3,000 mark. ...

• China to hold national mourning for coronavirus victims This post has no comments yet

  China will hold a national mourning event on Saturday to commemorate those who died in its fight against the deadly coronavirus, including 14 frontline workers. ...

• Global coronavirus cases surpass one million with more than 50,000 deaths 2 April 2020 | Chris Lefkow with AFP bureaux This post has 2 comments

  Confirmed coronavirus cases around the world topped one million on Thursday and the number of deaths soared past 50,000 as Europe reeled from the pandemic and the United States reported record numbers of people out of work. ...

• “Some of us will die”: India’s homeless stranded by coronavirus lockdown 1 April 2020 | Zeba Siddiqui and Sunil Kataria This post has no comments yet

  In a densely packed neighbourhood of Delhi, hundreds of homeless people queued up this week as volunteers doled out rice and peas from a vat in the back of a van. ...

• Dalai Lama praises PM Modi’s efforts in fight against Coronavirus | Tibet Sun Online News This post has 3 comments

  Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama on Tuesday lauded Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi for his efforts to control the growing threat of the Coronavirus disease in India. ...

• COVID 19 – Has China failed the world? | NS Venkataraman This post has one comment

  US President Trump has been repeatedly accusing China of not informing the world adequately and in right time about the seriousness of the Coronavirus (COVID-19) issue in China. ...

• Miss Tibet Pageant 2020 cancelled due to Coronavirus 31 March 2020 | Tibet Sun Online News This post has no comments yet

  The Miss Tibet Pageant 2020 has been cancelled due to the global Coronavirus pandemic, organisers said in a press release. The 2020 Pageant was to be held in McLeod Ganj from 5 to 7 June. ...

• Global lockdown tightens as virus deaths mount 30 March 2020 | Mariette Le Roux with Peter Hutchison in New York This post has 3 comments

  Harsh lockdowns aimed at halting the march of the coronavirus pandemic extended worldwide Monday as the death toll soared past 37,600 amid new waves of US outbreaks. ...

• Modi seeks ‘forgiveness’ from India’s poor over coronavirus lockdown 29 March 2020 | Alexandra Ulmer and Swati Bhat This post has 3 comments

  Indian PM Narendra Modi asked the nation’s poor for forgiveness on Sunday, as the economic and human toll from his 21-day nationwide lockdown deepens and criticism mounts about a lack of adequate planning ahead of the decision. ...