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Now that we know
#Nizamuddin
is a large cluster.. What next?
A look at How Singapore and South Korea handled such clusters, will help us.
1. Dont panic. No blame game. The Hindu, Muslim fight can wait.
1/n
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One nation, one ration card.
One nation, one election.
But, one nation, two vaccine prices.
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Dear fellow data journalists. Frustrated cleaning up ugly government PDFs and excel files with multiple merged columns and rows?
Welcome to the
@OpenAI
's coder interpreter, from today, your most favourite intern. Friend. And soul mate.
Original unclean file:
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In today’s
@the_hindu
we have a 2-page explainer decoding science behind
@Neeraj_chopra1
’s throws
Idea:
@vrsrini
Biomechanics and run-up:
@jon_selvaraj
Physics of Javelin:
@1amnerd
Data and viz:
@VigneshJourno
Design, illustration:
@Kannansundar_TH
Plan and output:
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Hello
#RTI
enthusiasts. Don't waste your 10 rs from today. Apparently RTI is a sacred act and we should not use it to question the government. What a brilliant reply. No wonder the amendment will further dilute this gem of an act....
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#CoronaOutbreak
| How different is it from other infectious diseases? How quick is it spreading and why?
#corononavirus
#CoronavirusOutbreak
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Only 26,616
#covid
cases in
#Maharashtra
on Monday. This is 7,000 cases drop from the previous day.
This has come despite 2.64 lakh tests conducted an increase of 24,000 tests from the previous day.
Definitely, the second wave is ending. Thank god!
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A comparison of Infant Mortality Rates of States with countries. Global rankings assigned
1. Kerala, J&K, Delhi jumped >20 spots in Global rankings in last 5 years. Kerala IMR just behind US, better than China.
2. UP and MP's rankings declined. IMR similar to Sudan, Afghanistan
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A long thread on the relationship between testing & +ve cases, India's testing strategy & its initial response to the
#COVID
ー19 crisis
Since the start of the
#covid
outbreak,
@the_hindu
data team has been pointing out India's poor testing rate and the dangers of it
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Every 10 days
@the_hindu
tracks the rate of vaccination in India. The May 11-May 20 period recorded the slowest rate since Mar 1-Mar 10. That is, the rate after opening up for all adults is same as when only 60+ were allowed to vaccinate.
*THIS IS NOT A DEMAND PROBLEM*
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2. Immediate action will be to find those who attended, trace, test, isolate and treat them.
Issue advertisements in all State papers/TV/radio and ask attendees to reach nearest hospital, ask the Tablighi Jamaat preachers for the phone numbers of all those attended. 2/n
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In a recently opened famous private hospital in Chennai, which has AC rooms and cushion seats, in-hospital garden, plush observation area, my parents had first dose of the covishield. The cashier said, if we pay for both doses, we can avoid the queue next time. We paid. Believed
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Watching
#BadBoyBillionaires
, most of the newspaper clippings are from
@the_hindu
and almost all TV clippings are from
@ndtv
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#Uttarakhand
diverted over 50,000 hectares of
#forest
land to various development & defence projects in the past 30 years - the 4th highest among all States.
#Chamoli
recorded the second-highest forest area diversion among all of Uttarakhand's districts
#UttarakhandDisaster
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The Hindu Data Team's election day full page special
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Any analysis of disease spread, which does not consider the testing rates, is remarkable
Among Indian cities, Covid is growing fastest in Chennai followed by Mumbai and then Delhi. Among Indian states Maharashtra has the fastest doubling rate, followed by Tamil Nadu and Delhi. Remarkable how UP has been able to slow the spread of the virus.
@IndiaToday
DIU insights.
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No questions asked. Free of cost. Nurse scolded me for asking my father to get down from auto.
Will go to the pvt hospital and get back my 500. Its not about the money. Its about the trust
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Most of those who were present will not show symptoms now. In The singapore Safra Jurong dinner cluster which affected 47 ppl, many did not show symptoms for days after infection.
Listen:
So, isolate all of them and monitor even if asymptomatic. 3/n
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The explainer decoding science behind
@Neeraj_chopra1
's throws has got 3 awards in the 6th International Newspaper Design Competition by
- Best of show and the gold award among sports pages
- Award of excellence among double-spreads
In today’s
@the_hindu
we have a 2-page explainer decoding science behind
@Neeraj_chopra1
’s throws
Idea:
@vrsrini
Biomechanics and run-up:
@jon_selvaraj
Physics of Javelin:
@1amnerd
Data and viz:
@VigneshJourno
Design, illustration:
@Kannansundar_TH
Plan and output:
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For the Notebook column of
@the_hindu
, I wrote about the transformation from a data person to a data journalist
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State of women in Tamil Nadu. A thread based on data from NFHS surveys
"TN has the tag of a ‘progressive State’ because of its achievements in various development indicators. However, NFHS have revealed some deepseated contradictions that necessitate collective soulsearching"
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Passengers eject Pakistani politicians out of plane for causing delay
http://t.co/ejzN1hfFBJ,
my story in
@httweets
http://t.co/7utY7KC7dO
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Thats quite a claim. This requires daily vaccination dose to exceed 7 million. We are doing 1.5 - 2 million a day. Hope this is not a vacuous claim as usual and there is a plan.
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You will mostly not find who was the first infected. Dont waste time searching for the source infection. Its pointless and waste of effort.
None of those at the dinner party showed symptoms or temprature spike before dinner. Yes, the club checked it. 4/n
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Contact tracing. Talk to the patients. Who did they meet in Delhi, who did they meet in Flight/train, which train,which flight, which bay in train, who did they meet back at their home towns, their activity trail since they left Delhi. Make details public
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595 million. That is the projected population for India in the 18-44 age group. When the target was 345 million (45+ age group) there was shortage. Where are the vaccines going to come from? How the States are going to afford it? Will people be able to afford open market rates?
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all this apart. Mass testing should start now. Right this minute you should start testing all those in the cluster, isolate and treat. You have to repeat it for all patients, all their contacts. Every second you waste, the untraced is giving it to another
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Final tweet. Enough of this "stop panic mongering", "we are flattening curve", " lockdown works". It ends. HERE. Stop pressurising journalists. It's time to hit the panic button. Embrace it. Once a cluster is identified. Complacency has no room. Thread ends
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Be transparent about each patient, Follow the South Korea example. Look how they have maintained the database.
One row for each patient and sometimes patients will suddenly remember a contact. Make it easy for them to update you.
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The number of tests conducted has been on a rapid decline for the past 10 days in India. That's one of the major reasons behind a sudden fall in cases recently. Which States are good, bad and ugly in this measure:
#COVID19India
#covid
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There is a campaign going on to somehow spin this "vaccine shortage" and show it as "vaccine hesitancy" and not due to "poor vaccine supply"
Exhibit 1:
#Datapoint
on how pace of
#vaccination
is slowing down overall & across States. Exhibit 2:
#Datapoint
on why this is clearly a supply issue as States have utilised more than 90% of supplies by the
#Centre
(& have bought stocks on their own) by
@VigneshJourno
et al.
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People in Andaman & Nicobar too have to access the history, they too have links with thr cluster. So please put it online.
Time is of essence. Spend only 2 hours per patient. Get accurate history within that.
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Finally, know that it will end. The faster you proceed, the more you will identify and isolate. But know that it will end soon. One cluster after another will emerge. But if our reaction is faster, it will soon end and we will be come S Korea
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Heading out? Assess the risk involved in the activity you have planned, using this
#covid
risk calculator.
In short.
Avoid indoors
All parties involved in the activity should wear masks for effective prevention.
Avoid loud conversations
Maintain distance always
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Petrol prices at a record high.
1. Heavy taxation is the major reason. But recently an uptick in crude prices have come as a double whammy. So, when crude prices drop, the burden on people remains, as the drop is converted to taxes. But if crude prices increase, the burden is on
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Privacy may get affected here. In S Korea, they seized mobile phone, credit card etc. If you do it, Be careful with the data. Dont misuse it. Strip off personal information before sharing it online.
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Data Point: Year in review
A long twitter thread of some of the interesting data points and full page graphics we did this year...
At the start of the year, we visualised what Indians searched for in 2021 and ended the year with the same info for 2022. No big changes...
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Filed 5 RTIs to the 5 bodies in Delhi, seeking registered deaths in 2020 & 2021, based on the template framed by
@raman_anuradha
.
After 3 months of wait, several phone calls, email exchanges, got all the data
Story:
Data:
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Most of the infected will give it to their family members first. So their kith and kin needs to be tested too.
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Some conclusions.
1. Testing cannot be limited.
2. Lockdown/Quarantine without high testing is useless.
3. Quick large scale testing in the initial days gives results
4. Increasing testing later is fine. But it wont be easy.
5. Saving testing kits for future is useless. 19/n
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Tools cannot replace journalists, at least as of now. But those reporters who use AI and ML may have a slight edge over others. Published in the Notebook column today @ The Hindu op-ed page.
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There will be more clusters. Call up media agencies, like ANI and PTI. They reported a series of religious gatherings and similar stuff around the lockdown time. See if anyone was symptomatic. Finding them is going to be a headache. But if lucky, u can stop a cluster.
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Excellent fact check
Sudarshan News ran a non-stop campaign accusing
@PawanHansLtd
of discriminating against Hindus by giving jobs only to Muslims. The Propaganda channel & their employees ran a hashtag Naukri Jihad (नौकरी जिहाद) to target Aligarh Muslim University.
Is the allegations true? Thread 👇🏼
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This is UP's rural-urban case share. 78% cases in May are from rural areas.
Considering the poor testing capabilities in rural areas, 78% itself is huge. Considering poor infra, how many can get hospitalised? So many deaths will also go unnoticed for various reasons.
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Buy The Hindu today for this stunning full page special on Chandrayaan 3
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.
@ThehinduData
team analyses the
#Gujarat
and
#Himchal
results. A thread 🧵
Scraper, Gujarat map:
@PratapVardhan
HP map:
@datameet
Past data, candidate identity:
@TCPD_Ashoka
Night lights:
@devdatalab
Regions:
@LoknitiCSDS
Data:
@nihalani_jasmin
@RebeccaRoseVar1
@sonikkalogan
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Morning
@MoHFW_INDIA
claimed that Jharkhand had a wastage of 37.3%.
@JharkhandCMO
has put out supply data district-wise to show that the wastage was 4.65%. This is the problem with bits and pieces data. Also utilisation is 86%. What hesitancy?
As per total vaccine doses availability with Govt on Jharkhand till today, the current Vaccine Wastage proportion is only 4.65%. Vaccination data could not be fully updated to the central Co-Win Server/ Platform due to technical difficulties/glitches & the updation is in process.
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Many are asking me what is the Singapore and South Korea clusters i'm talking about,
@the_hindu
did a full page on the subject. Details:
.
@the_hindu
did a full page on the need for
#PhysicalDistancing
We used
#covid
Patient data from Singapore, S. korea and Kerala to explain how all it takes for
#coronavirus
to spread is one person who didnt maintain physical distance
Hi-res PDF link :
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Finally in my lifetime, data journalism is going to be about data analysis and not just cleaning up data and prepping it for analysis.
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Using
@PratapVardhan
's data, we analyse the cost of
#Covishield
and
#Covaxin
in private centers. Some charge as high as 3 times the cost they bought for from the manufacturers, while some others continue to give it at Rs 250
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The
@the_hindu
data team now has a Twitter handle
@ThehinduData
Watch out for
- Charts made exclusively for social media
-
#DidYouKnow
cards
- Relaunch of data newsletter (today)
- A data podcast (coming week)
My colleague
@sonikkalogan
will be the point person for the products
#DataPoint
| The results of the
#NationalAchievementSurvey
show that Covid-19 lockdowns significantly impacted students. Class X Science scores dropped by 47 points in 2021, compared to 2018, with Andhra Pradesh, Assam and Telangana faring the worst. Punjab saw no change.
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Another day. Another bits and pieces data issue crops up.
Yesterday
@MoHFW_INDIA
claimed that Jharkhand (37.3%), Chhattisgarh (30.2%) had >30% wastage of vaccines a number many are using to claim hesitancy among the population. Then came replies from the States
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Govt is distributing pamphlets asking us to link Aadhaar to voter IDs. There was no information provided on whether this is voluntary or mandatory. We were told to return filled forms on Monday, compulsorily. The officers in charge need to clarify this while distributing, i feel
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There will come a day. When these will be answered. Oh it will come.
Dramatic increase in demand for bulldozers. Are we increasing domestic capacity for manufacturing or will we have to depend on imports??
#JustAsking
. 😝😝😂😂
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In an amazing coincidence, today’s
@livemint
’s Plain Facts by
@Howindialives
and
@the_hindu
’s Data Point were ditto similar in arguments and presentation of data. Arrivals, state-wise comparison, conclusions and even sources were same.
Even the tomatoes :) Made my day
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Monday will be starting of 8th week and we have only one week window to take second dose. Today we called them up to request again. All phone lines are busy for over 6 hours now.
Went to nearest Urban Primary Health Care center. In next ten minutes, we were given second dose.
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Using data from we show
1. Covid is back in India
2. As usual infections are first rising in the cities
3. Mumbai Delhi and Ahmedabad saw rapid rise. Chennai, Bengaluru and Kolkata too
4. But cases in Kerala are going down.
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.
@the_hindu
did a full page on the need for
#PhysicalDistancing
We used
#covid
Patient data from Singapore, S. korea and Kerala to explain how all it takes for
#coronavirus
to spread is one person who didnt maintain physical distance
Hi-res PDF link :
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In Today's Hindu we explain Chennai's water crisis using
@rajbhagatt
's data/maps/imagery .....
#ChennaiWaterCrisis
#Chennai
#WaterScarcity
#WaterCrisis
#chennairains
#reservoirlevels
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We got a call from Dr. Sheela Nagusah and were confronted as to why we exposed her. She basically accused us for speaking up. She said "I called early to reach out to patients early". And after making her points, cut the call without seeking our reply.
@HospitalsApollo
We had an
@HospitalsApollo
(Chennai) online COVID-19 consult appointment with Dr. Sheela Nagusah. The appointment was for 6 p.m. But we got a landline call at 2 p.m. and were forced to consult. Doctor did not listen to details and parroted the usual COVID protocols and cut call
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Following Kolkata, Hyderabad and Tamil Nadu...
Excess deaths of Karnataka ...
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When a crocodile roamed the streets of Bengaluru
http://t.co/FEeR3wVsij
http://t.co/xdCmxmCe8j
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Last tweet. Call the numbers in the following image and you will get a free and excellent consult if you are in TN. Dont repeat my stupid mistake.
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Since May 1, vaccination rate dropped drastically. The only explanation is insufficient supply of doses from Centre. 95% of what Centre gave, States used, indicating high demand. It is all upto States now as Centre is clear that doses for 18-44 is not their responsibility.
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About 40% of India's first 1mn cases were from "rural" and "mostly rural" districts. But, among the latest 1 mn cases, 67% were from such districts. Also, the first 1mn cases took 169 days, while the latest 1mn took only 16 days (quicker than US and Brazil)
#COVID19
#COVID19India
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many have messaged me now saying this RTI was filed by a right wing guy and why i'm using that as an example. I dont see the reason why i should not. The tweet is about stupidity of the reply. Not the content of the RTI.
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While it is true that cases have been surging in rural India for a while now, despite a waning COVID-19 curve, the rise is not uniform across States. In TN and Kerala, the rural surge is limited. But across all States rural pop. received fewer doses of vaccine.
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.
@AmitShah
said that
#JandK
was underdeveloped, the people are poor, doctors are insufficient, education is bad, tourism is bad, in many health parameters they are poor and all this he cited was why rooting out
#370Article
is important.
A look at
#JammuAndKashmir
's vital stats
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No state-wise supply data today too by
@MoHFW_INDIA
And the mistake on May 20 where they actually vaccinated only 14 lakh but claimed 48 lakh due to arithmetic error is still there.
So the actual vaccinated is 34 lakh less than what is being claimed.
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The II part of the shrinking shape of water series is out. Using
@rajbhagatt
's ideas & satellite images,
@LakshmiImmanuel
's incisive reporting,
@the_hindu
brings out how encroachments have shrunk lake acreage and drains are snuffing the life out of lakes
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நீ சொன்னத தஞ்சாவூர் கல்வெட்டுல எழுதி வெச்சிட்டு, பக்கத்துலயே உக்காந்துக. உனக்கு பின்னாடி வரும் சந்ததிகள் அதை பார்த்து படிச்சி தெளிவடைவாங்க.
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Sept. core sector growth is alarming
+ never before in 14 years has there been a drop of this magnitude (-5.2%). The second nearest low was just -1%
+ In electricity, coal & steel, contraction is back after a long gap
+ Never in last 14 years, has 7 sectors contracted at one go
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Is
#Hindi
spoken by the majority?
1. What we consider as "Hindi language" is a combination of 56 mother tongues (Includes
#Rajasthani
#Bhojpuri
and Hindi)
2. Many of these are fighting to become a language of their own
3. So, Just 26% of Indians speak Hindi as mother tongue
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We are already in lockdown 3.0. Some States are still testing low. Still bad decisions like liquor shops, no social distancing in markets like Koyambedu are taken. Migrants are still walking. First mover advantage forgone. Whats the plan?
Ends
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#IndvsAus
stat analysis: Five-and-a-half reasons why India can beat Australia in the semis
http://t.co/dLxwTPSSYw
http://t.co/dvfscUd7X1
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WC analysis: Where the teams stand, who all are going to the quarters
http://t.co/qkmKHcj9fJ
#CWC15
#WorldCup2015
http://t.co/E9HzeAeA0o
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I just saw
#Neymar
roll 8 times over after being gently tapped. Bloody insane
In casino Royale, Bond's car rolled 7 times to win Guinness record. He surpassed it!
#Nadigayarthilagam
title suits him... Poster by
@sportstarweb
suits him too.
Neymar is the 2018's Arjen
#Robben
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And we thank the
@devdatalab
team for giving the data in CSV format for people like me who don't know to code or to analyse any data in any other format. When I approached them and requested it in CSV, they didn't frown. Thanks for that. Many don't entertain this request.
@the_hindu
data team has been consistently putting
@devdatalab
open data to the kind of use we hoped for and hadn't thought of, such as triangulating the urban-rural deep dive on Covid infection/vaccination/health infra in yesterday's paper and today! Thank you
@VigneshJourno
🙏
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This in my view is good news. Yes, its a massive spike. But...
1. Tests also spiked
2. Most cases from Koyambedu cluster were contact traced and tested today. An effort 100 times tougher than tracing Delhi conference attendees.
The faster we find positives, the better.
Massive spike in Tamil nadu.
527 persons test positive for COVID-19 on Monday. Total tally is 3550.
A large number of today's cases are linked to Koyambedu market cluster
#COVID
#TamilNadu
@THChennai
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Stunning chart. According to the economic survey, India's response to COVID-19 was the best in the world, in both cases and deaths. And how did they end up calculating? They estimated how worse india could have been, and actually how worse it was and came to this conclusion.
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People, just think. From May 1 an additional 545 mn can legally ask for shots, so demand surged. But delivery was way less than what was before May 1. Vaccination shortage is the only reason.
Please raise your voice and get your due. Vaccination helps. I witnessed it personally.
India's vaccination rate has fallen steeply in recent days.
@the_hindu
#Datapoint
@VigneshJourno
,
@i_sumantsen
I think it is now amply clear that there is a supply constraint that has resulted in this slowdown.
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#SriLanka
's descent into chaos is due to mismanagement of finance and policies, but the erosion of
#democracy
since the constitutional crisis in 2018 cannot be ignored. Almost all democratic virtures follow a pattern: rapid rise post-war, decline after 2018.
Data:
@vdeminstitute
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#COVID19India
#COVID19
June15
*Drastic fall in number of new tests conducted
*Due to drastic fall in new tests, new cases fell too. -2% compared to new cases 7 days before
* Deaths on the other hand continued to go up. +42.2% compared to 7 days back
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Something weird is happening in
#Japan
.
1. The new cases were sliding. It looked like they dodged the bullet.
2. Then its surging again so much now, that they are declaring emergency.
India and Japan has one thing in common. Low testing rates. Though we lockdown early.
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India administered only 14 lakhs odd shots on 20th May. But due to some arithmetic error they showed 48 lakhs in their
@MoHFW_INDIA
ministry press release. They are yet to correct it in the PDFs.
On daily vaccination data of 20th May: 14L or 48L?
📌 Our calculation (all based on MoHFW data) 👇
➡️ Total doses as on
19/05: 18.7 Cr
20/05: 19.18 Cr
📌 Difference: 48L
There is a difference of 48L between the total doses administered, published by MoHFW b/w the 2 days.
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#WestBengalPolls
Did the BJP lose more in the later phases as the
#COVIDSecondWaveInIndia
intensified?
The BJP's vote share decreased in the successive phases. Even the CPI(M) and INC combine gained more as phases progressed. Mamata's V% to increased.
Figures are Vote %
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India's case peak is not in sight yet.
India is still in its first wave - new case curve did not bend much during lockdown as the test, trace, isolate cycle was poorly implemented. New cases surged after unlock. Now, metros trains back, city buses plying, when will India peak?
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UP's population draft:
1. Bad timing - Fertility levels are decreasing across all States
2. Bad method - Passive methods like contraceptive use, educating women enough to decrease fertility
3. Unintended consequences - In a male child crazy country, may lead to more abortions
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