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China reports third consecutive daily record for new Covid cases
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
35,909 cases were reported including 3,405 locally transmitted cases and 31,504 local asymptomatic cases, state media Xinhua reported.
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Pathbreaking initiative to improve children's learning at scale
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], November 25 (ANI/PNN): The results released for the Haryana Early Literacy Development Impact Bond (DIB): A Pay-for-Success model show significantly improved learning outcomes in 164,000 children of 3,300 primary classes in government schools, despite the COVID-19 pandemic
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China reports new daily record COVID cases for second consecutive day
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
Of the total COVID cases, 3,041 were symptomatic while 29,654 were asymptomatic, Reuters news agency reported. The report added that Thursday's new local COVID-19 infections set a daily record, beating a figure set in mid-April.
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Study examines children's mental health during, after Covid pandemic
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
The first comprehensive study to examine research on the mental health of children and young people using evidence from before and during COVID-19 discovered an effect on mental health that could lead to an increase in demand for support services.
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MoS Health Pawar vouches for AMR to be recognized as global health threat
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
Union Minister of State for Health, Dr Bharati Pravin Pawar on Thursday highlighted that Anti-Microbial Resistance (AMR) is a silent and invisible pandemic and said that AMR should be recognized as a global health threat at the third global high-level conference held in Muscat, Oman.
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Research: 1 in 8 adult experienced depression for first time during pandem
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
A new, large-scale study of more than 20,000 older adults in Canada found that approximately 1 in 8 older adults developed depression for the first time during the pandemic.
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China's daily Covid cases hit record high: Report
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
On Monday, China's top health official said that country is facing the 'most complicated and severest anti-epidemic situation' since the emergence of coronavirus.
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South Korea's childbirth rate hit record low of 0.79 per woman in third qu
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
The number of babies born was the lowest since statistics were compiled in the same quarter, while the number of deaths was the highest due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The natural decline in the population continued for 35 months as the number of births declined and the number of death soared.
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Measles becomes 'an imminent global threat' due to the Covid pandemic: WHO
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
The World Health Organization(WHO) and the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on Wednesday (local time) said that measles immunization had dropped significantly since the coronavirus pandemic began, resulting in a record high of nearly 40 million children missing a vaccin
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This Edtech operates on the 'acquire phygitally and deliver digitally' man
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], November 23 (ANI/Mediawire): Ed-Tech companies have become a part of every household. The ed-tech segment in India boomed a few years before the pandemic and then as learning shifted completely to online due to the pandemic-led lockdowns. Post-Pandemic, an uncertain future
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Dr Vijay Kishore Bansal earns recognition through his philanthropic work
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
Agra (Uttar Pradesh) [India], November 22 (ANI/PNN): For his extensive philanthropic work during the COVID-19 pandemic, renowned social worker Dr Vijay Kishore Bansal is continually being felicitated by various social organizations.
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India, China, Korea drive growth as global intellectual property filings t
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
The WIPO's World Intellectual Property Indicators (WIPI) report showed that innovators around the world filed 3.4 million patent applications in 2021, up 3.6 per cent from the previous year with offices in Asia receiving 67.6 per cent of all applications worldwide.
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