A majority of students who aspire to study abroad hail from Tier 2 and 3 cities, a pan-India study of 25,000 aspirational students by edtech start-up upGrad Abroad indicates. “We are seeing rising interest from students hailing from cities like Thiruvananthapurm and Kottayam down south, Vadodara and Surat in the west, Lucknow in the north … Read more
New Delhi: BeatO, a digital care platform for controlling and reversing diabetes, has announced that they have more than two million people with diabetes on their platform. The platform has seen its user base grow by 17x in the past five years. According to a recent Lancet report, India is home to approximately 77 million … Read more
by Harsh Parikh Whether it is AIDS, Malaria or now, COVID-19, infectious outbreaks follow a grim pattern. Diseases hurt certain sections of the community more than the others. Healthcare in India has always been a tale of two cities and averages are hardly representative of the ground realities in rural and semi-urban areas of the … Read more
And secondary schools across most of England are to remain closed for an extra two weeks for most pupils. Source link
Areas of England outside the South East say the new variant of Covid-19 is likely to be circulating. Source link
More half of England’s population are set to be subject to the tightest set of restrictions from 00:01 GMT Wednesday. Health Secretary Matt Hancock announced the increased measures for London, parts of Essex and parts of Hertfordshire. There are exceptions to the rules in all tiers for childcare and support bubbles. But it’s prompting questions … Read more
Some 67 local authorities in England are taking part in the community testing schemes. Source link
The tougher new system came into force on Wednesday after being approved by MPs in a Commons vote on Tuesday. Source link
The government’s new approach to determining tiers bundles together low- and high-rate local authorities. Source link
England’s three tier system is coming back when lockdown 2.0 ends on 2 December. But the UK Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, says this version is tougher than it was back in the Autumn. It’s after the government’s scientific advisors, SAGE, said the old tier system wasn’t enough to bring the R number below one. Which … Read more