India Coronavirus Dispatch: Do we need to shift focus, narrative on virus?

Odisha's peculiar problem, triple whammy for nurses tending to corona patients, go-ahead for Phase-3 trials of Oxford vaccine--a round-up of news on how the country is dealing with the pandemic

Managing Covid-19

Ganjam’s dubious distinctions: In Odisha, a rare situation has unfolded. The state’s worst-affected district is not the one that houses its capital. Ganjam, instead, is bearing that burden. A high influx of migrants, the fact that it’s a border district, and a deficient institutional response might explain this exception. Some experts suggest that a ‘very virulent’ strain of the virus brought in by returnees from Gujarat might be to blame. Read more here.

A Doctors’ Prescription: According to this Doctor, there is an urgent need to shift the narrative from raising alarm over the virus to discussing