Thursday, March 28, 2024

Topic: Coronavirus

US Covid-19 cases surpass 1 million

Coronavirus confirmed cases in the United States exceeded a sobering 1 million Tuesday, according to Johns Hopkins University.

Coronavirus cases top 3 million worldwide

Worldwide, the number of people confirmed to have the coronavirus has risen to more than three million, and at least 209,000 have died, according to Johns Hopkins University.

For Kerala’s queers, lockdown packages wane as discrimination persists against them

The Kerala Government that labeled itself to be the first, to sanction the Transgender and Intersex Policy, declared not a single package for the community with a very meek financial stability.

Covid-19: ‘What is abnormal for rest of world is normal for Palestinians here’

A full lockdown has been in place in the West Bank for more than three weeks, with over 300 cases of COVID-19 confirmed in the Palestinian Territories.

Will put all efforts to help those stranded from Bengal in other states: Mamata

West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday tweeted that the state government will make all possible efforts to bring back stranded people stuck in different parts of the country due to lockdown.

Coronavirus: 75 organisations call on social media platforms to preserve, publish content moderation data

A group of scholars and nonprofit organizations have asked web platforms to keep track of the content they’re removing during the coronavirus pandemic so they can make it available to researchers studying how online information affects public health. The signatories — including the Committee to Protect Journalists, sent an open letter to social media and content sharing services, urging them to preserve data even as they remove misinformation.