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CORONAVIRUS IN INDIA.

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BY K P PASWAN. In the month of January 2020 India along with countries like Japan, Germany and Brazil and some other countries was on the threshold of challenging the Chinese economy, but the country had to face unprecedented crisis when by March 2020, the Covid-19 engulfed the entire country. Following the social restrictions as suggested by epidemiologists and experts, the Govt had to impose lock down which resulted in mass migration of unskilled labors working in different parts of the country and manufacturing activities were slowed down.  It was a race against time. India lost the battle to equalize its emerging economy with an economy of the rogue neighbor based on currency manipulation and undemocratic principles. The first wave of Covid-19 depressed the enthusiasm of every Indian. There were ups and down between March 2020 to March2021. It appeared that pandemic was  dying and the Secretary of Health declared that the Govt never promised free vaccines to every In...

OMICRON AND THE FATE OF HUMAN RACE.(up dated)

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  BY K P PASWAN. It was presumed that mass vaccination of people to combat the deadly Coronavirus was the beginning of the end but there is no end in sight. Detection of a new variant B,1,1,529, supposed to be more destructive than Delta plus reflects the mutation ability of the elusive virus. New variant christened by WHO as OMICRON and declared a variant of concern is posing the greatest challenge to science,as the essential characteristics of this new variant is not known. New variant was first reported in South Africa and its neighbors like Botswana, Lesotho and was carried to Hongkong, UK and a few other European country. But its real origin is not known. A report from Netherlands claimed that that variant was present in Netherlands much before it was reported in Africa. Anthony Fauccy, the outspoken and controversial expert in US jumped to the conclusion that new variant might have entered US undetected. Entire Europe and US are in the grip of Delta plus. There is no ...