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Maharashtra: Lab technician takes va****l swab from 23-year-old woman for ‘accurate COVID-19 test result'
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Updated Jul 30, 2020 | 20:51 IST

Police have arrested a 30-year-old lab technician under rape and molestation charges after he allegedly took a vaginal swab from a woman for a COVID-19 test in Maharashtra's Amravati district.

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KEY HIGHLIGHTS
  • The woman, who works at a mall, was asked to take a COVID-19 test as one of her co-workers had tested positive for the infection
  • She lodged a police complaint after her brother confirmed from a doctor that no vaginal swabs are taken for COVID-19 tests
Mumbai: In a deplorable incident, a 30-year-old lab technician of a state-run hospital allegedly took a vaginal swab from a 23-year-old woman for performing a COVID-19 test after saying that it was important for “an accurate COVID-19 test result”, in Amravati district of Maharashtra on Tuesday.

The incident took place at the Trauma Care Testing Lab of the Badnera government hospital. The affected woman works at a mall. One of her co-workers had tested positive for Coronavirus, following which, she, along with 20 others, went to the TCTL for taking a COVID-19 test.

Accused calls woman for second test
After the test, the woman received a call from the technician, identified as Alpesh A Deshmukh. He told her that her report was positive and now she was required to take a vaginal swab test for an accurate result. She asked if there was any other woman who was required to undergo the vaginal swab test. He responded in negative.

Woman grows suspicious
The woman went to the lab for the second test. The accused took vaginal swabs from her and later told her that the report was negative. She grew suspicious and told her brother about it. Her brother contacted a doctor, who confirmed that vaginal swab tests aren’t done for COVID-19. Thereafter, the woman approached the police and filed a complaint against the accused. Police arrested him under rape and molestation charges, reported IANS.
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People are fleeing the cities as Covid19 case numbers sour in India

In India, over three million people have now become infected with COVID-19. Those numbers rose by a million in just two weeks. With the coronavirus situation getting worse, social and economic pressures are growing too. Millions of skilled and unskilled workers across the country have had to leave big cities and return to rural areas. Our correspondent Nimisha Jaiswal in Delhi explains why.


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Pakistan handled Covid-19 better than India: Rahul Gandhi
Opposition leader also shares a graph on Twitter predicting Indian economy to shrink by 10.3%


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Indian opposition leader Rahul Gandhi. PHOTO: FILE

Indian opposition leader Rahul Gandhi. PHOTO: FILE
Slamming the Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led Bharatiya Janata Party's government, opposition leader Rahul Gandhi on Friday said that Pakistan and Afghanistan handled the novel coronavirus pandemic better than India.
"Another solid achievement by the BJP government," said Rahul, sarcastically, in a tweet while sharing a graph of projected GDP growth of different countries. "Pakistan and Afghanistan handled Covid better than India," he added.

The graph showed the contraction of Indian economy by 10.3% — the highest in the region by far — while rest of the countries did significantly better than India.
According to Hindustan Times, this was the biggest slump of any major emerging nation and the worst since independence.
Earlier, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in its report had predicted that Asia’s third-largest economy will contract 10.3% for the fiscal year compared with its June prediction of a 4.5% drop.
Pakistan’s economy, which in the last fiscal year contracted by 0.4%, is projected to grow by 1% in this fiscal year 2020-21, the World Economic Outlook (WEO) had said in its report.
The WEO noted that inflation in Pakistan could be 10.2% on an annualised basis, which by 2025 is expected to remain around 8.6% and the unemployment rate, which till this fiscal year was 4.5% may further jump to 5.1%.
The IMF projected over 13.3% increase in unemployment in Pakistan within a year.
The IMF report projections suggest that Pakistan is in stagflation – a condition in which the economic growth rate is slow while unemployment and prices of goods and services are high.
The report observed that the revision was driven by second quarter GDP outturns in large advanced economies, which were not as negative as had been projected.
China’s return to growth, which was stronger than expected, and signs of a more rapid recovery in the third quarter, it said.
While the global economy is coming back, the ascent will likely be long, uneven, and uncertain, the IMF maintained.
But it observed that prospects had worsened significantly in some emerging markets and developing economies where infections were increasing rapidly.
The IMF also released the Global Financial Stability report, which showed that Pakistan’s External debt service through the end of 2021 as percentage of foreign currency reserves 102%.
 

India coronavirus: The trauma and pain of being a Covid doctor
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Medical workers take care of a patient suffering from the coronavirus disease at the ICU of the Yatharth Hospital in Noida.
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image captionIndia has reported nearly 10 million Covid-19 cases

A patient suffering from a long-term effect of Covid-19 in India begged her doctor to take her off the ventilator because she didn't want to live any longer.
The woman had recovered from a severe bout of the infection after spending a month in critical care in summer and returned home, on oxygen.

A month later, she was readmitted to Pandit Bhagwat Dayal Sharma Post Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences in Rohtak, some 90km (55 miles) from the capital, Delhi. She was suffering from lung fibrosis, an irreversible effect of Covid-19, where fragile parts of the lungs become damaged even after the infection is gone.

During her second spell in critical care, which lasted three months, she wrote a series of notes to Kamna Kakkar, a 28-year-old anaesthetist.
"I don't want to live. Take me off the tubes."
"You shouldn't have saved me when I had Covid in summer."
The patient died soon after, despite all efforts to save her.
Covid doctors in Delhi
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image captionHealth workers say the pandemic has left them completely exhausted
Those who work in critical care are used to acute sickness, death and long hours. Dr Kakkar and her colleagues have handled several hundred very sick Covid-19 patients in their hospital since summer. But as the pandemic continues to engulf hospitals, and the disease results in completely unpredictable outcomes for patients, health workers are being driven to breaking point of physical exhaustion and mental frustration.

"Here was a patient who was hopeful, and then hopeless, and then agitated, not wanting to live. It was difficult for me to process her pain," Dr Kakkar told me.
More than 1,400km away, in the western city of Mumbai, Aseem Gargava, a 31-year-old doctor at the state-run KEM Hospital, reported a similar experience.

A patient, a young man and sole family breadwinner, had a stroke, days before he was expected to go home after recovering from Covid-19. He was paralysed for two weeks before he died. The cause: a blood clot in the lungs, called pulmonary embolism, which can happen in some coronavirus patients.
"Here was a young man, responding to all medication, recovering steadily, beating the virus and getting ready to return to his family. And then, out of the blue, there's a setback and all is lost," Dr Gargava said.
"It was so traumatic to break the news to his wife. The patient was with us for 45 days. This helplessness breaks you down more. This disease is so unpredictable."

Kamna Kakkar
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image captionDr Kamna Kakkar says the "pandemic never left the hospitals"
As Covid-19 winds its way through India, hospitals continue to be flooded with patients. The virus has now infected nearly 10 million people and claimed over 140,000 lives, according to official counts.
India added lots of beds, but simply didn't have enough critical care workers to cope with the rising tide of patients. So hospitals have trained practically any available specialist from plastic surgeons to ear, nose and throat (ENT) doctors to anaesthetists to look after Covid-19 patients.

Even that isn't enough. Health workers say they are completely burnt out. "The pandemic never really left the hospitals. People outside just don't realise that," Dr Kakkar said, while dealing with a surge of patients in the winter.

It's not just the pandemic that has overwhelmed health workers; it is the fear of an unpredictable and predatory pathogen that makes things so stressful.

Doctors say any patient arriving in an emergency room in India with shortness of breath these days is immediately a Covid-19 suspect when she could be actually suffering from heart disease, dengue, scrub typhus or even acid reflux.

But since everyone is a suspect, doctors and nurses have to take precautions, swab every patient, triage carefully, and keep all suspected patients in a separate ward until their results arrive.
When the very sick end up in critical care, forging trust with the patient becomes difficult because they can't see or sometimes communicate with the doctor or the nurse. "It is very, very frustrating sometimes," Dr Gargava said.

Aseem Gargava, a doctor in Mumbai posted this picture of his palm on social media
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image captionAseem Gargava, a doctor in Mumbai, posted this picture of his palm on social media
Doctors and nurses work in scrubs for hours together - wearing protective gear "feels like getting into a coffin every day," a doctor told me. They share mobile phone pictures of themselves slumped over tables during nightshifts like "zombies". In June Dr Gargava posted on social media a picture of his wrinkled palm, the result of wearing rubber gloves for hours without a break.
Most health workers haven't gone home in months - a doctor in Delhi says she saw her child after six months. Many live in hospitals and hotels to protect their families. The last time Dr Kakkar went on leave was after she contracted the infection herself, and chose to quarantine at home with her parents, away from the hospital.
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Towards the end of November, Prachi Agarwal, an anaesthetist at Delhi's Lok Nayak Jai Prakash Narayan (LNJP) Hospital, began her "ninth round of Covid-19 duty" - eight hours in critical care for 15 days at a stretch, followed by a week in quarantine in a hotel. She has to test negative every time she returns to work.

"It's a strange life of seeing patients, deaths and living in hotel rooms, and completely isolating from the rest of the world," Dr Agarwal told me.

Doctors and nurses also have little time to grieve for their personal losses. So many have lost colleagues to the infection - more than 660 doctors have died in India so far, and most of them worked in hospitals. "I have friends who are taking anti-depressants and seeking therapy," another doctor told me in Mumbai. They say they get very "angry and anguished" when they see their friends and relatives being lax with mask-wearing and going for parties and weddings as "if the pandemic was over".
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image captionHealth workers share pictures of their colleagues on duty
Health workers are also fed up of being lionised as heroes for doing their work. "We've passed that stage. If anyone calls us a hero now, I tell myself, please stop it. It won't work now. There's a limit to motivational lectures," says Dr Kakkar. "Seniors placate us saying this is a marathon, not a sprint".

Dwaipayan Banerjee, a medical anthropologist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, says fatigue and resilience are endemic to India's public health system, rather than the result of a new pandemic. "So rather than just celebrate human resilience and think of ways to boost the capacity of individual doctors, families and patients to withstand its impact, we need to think of ways in which this resilience is not demanded in the first place," he said.

After they lost two colleagues to Covid-19 in the summer, health workers at LNJP, India's largest Covid-19 hospital, began praying every day on each floor.
"We just pray to God to protect us all. And hope one day, some day, we will triumph over the virus," Farah Husain, who looks after the hospital's Covid-19 intensive care unit, said.

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Unable to locate the original post, censored by the mod but very pertinent in view of the current situation!

The said article claimed some weeks ago that India had already recovered from the COVID crisis!


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As correctly warned back on 23rd February 2021, India is now facing the reality of post-911 era started in 2020, and called the All-Pandemic Era:



Feb 23, 2021

If ISRO can't keep its target goal of 2022 for a manned spaceflight due to the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic, then it will only be able to launch fireworks for the next 2 decades!

Because during the past year, COVID-19 was only a mild massage compared to the incoming tsunami of B117 et al strains forecasted for March 2021!

5 FEb 2021

TWO DIFFERENT COVID19 PANDEMICS—Many think with cases dropping that pandemic is nearly over. But truth is, there are now 2 different #SARSCoV2 pandemics diverging—old strain is waning, while the more contagious #B117 strain is dominating. We will be soon slammed very hard.

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1. Here is what is going to happen... currently R is ~0.9 in many places, but with the more infectious #B117, the R will jump 50% approximately. And it is inevitable (all CDC and Danish models say this) that B117 will take over as the reigning dominant variant soon... · Feb 5, 2021

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The only thing skyrocketing right now in India: India's COVID situation worst in the world by rate of new infections, in this Death Race along Brazil, and no better than the U.S. and the E.U.!

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2. New COVID cases as reported 25th March 2021.


Just FYI for now—new variant found in India. Unclear transmission or immune escape yet.

"double mutation (E484Q & L452R) in key areas of virus's spike protein may increase these risks and allow the virus to escape the immune system".

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3. BREAKING—due to surging COVID19 cases, India 🇮🇳 has frozen all major exports of AstraZeneca COVIDVaccine made by Serum Institute of India, world’s biggest vaccine-maker, to meet domestic demand as infections rise. This will also delay supplies to COVAX. 24 Mar 2021

Again, vaccines are never meant to be more than a substitute for a cure, only a placebo when one doesn't use the real cure: particle accelerators.
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A COVID triple-mutant found in India could be much more deadly, and may be resistant to existing vaccines
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a group of people standing in a room: Medics attend to COVID-19 patients at Shehnai Banquet Hall, temporarily converted into an isolation ward, as coronavirus cases surge across the country in New Delhi, India. Amarjeet Kumar Singh/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images
© Amarjeet Kumar Singh/Anadolu Agency via Getty ImagesMedics attend to COVID-19 patients at Shehnai Banquet Hall, temporarily converted into an isolation ward, as coronavirus cases surge across the country in New Delhi, India. Amarjeet Kumar Singh/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images
  • A new threat has emerged in India's fight against COVID - a triple mutant variant of the virus.
  • The mutant strain was found in samples in Bengal, and may have evolved from preexisting double mutations.
  • Researchers in India say this new threat could potentially affect vaccine efficacy, but more studies need to be done.
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As India contends with its second major wave of COVID cases and a double-mutated variant of the virus, it now faces a new threat - a triple-mutant variant.
Scientists found two triple-mutant varieties in patient samples in four states: Maharashtra, Delhi, West Bengal, and Chhattisgarh. Researchers in the country have dubbed it the "Bengal strain" and say it has the potential to be even more infectious than the double-mutant variant.
This is because three COVID variants have merged to form a new, possibly deadlier variant.
The Times of India spoke to Vinod Scaria, a researcher at the CSIR-Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology in India, who said that the triple mutant was also an "immune escape variant" - a strain that helps the virus attach to human cells and hide from the immune system.

He added that it could have evolved from the double-mutant variant - which experts say is likely behind the recent surge of COVID in the country.

Sreedhar Chinnaswamy, a researcher from the National Institute of Biomedical Genomics in India, told the Times of India that the variant also carried the E484K mutation, a characteristic found in both the South African and Brazilian variants.

"In other words, you may not be safe from this variant even if you were previously infected by another strain, or even if you have been vaccinated," said Chinnaswamy.

Paul Tambyah, a professor of medicine at the National University of Singapore, said that the good news, however, is that there is currently no concrete evidence that the new triple mutation is more deadly or transmissible.

"Singapore researchers have done some work trying to link the mutations with clinical outcomes and transmissibility and have found no link between more severity or more transmissibility with newer mutants compared with the original lineages of SARS-CoV2," Tambyah said.

Other scientists studying COVID have detected quadruple and quintuple mutants in samples as well, he said, without it necessarily affecting how well vaccines work.

"There is good data suggesting that the immune system, not just antibodies, can respond to multiple different mutants," Tambyah said.

This new threat is, still, worrying, as India's healthcare system has already reached a breaking point as it grapples with the second wave of COVID cases. Hospitals across the country are dealing with critical shortages of medical oxygen supplies. Yesterday, six hospitals in the country reportedly ran out of oxygen as the country grappled with a sudden surge in patients.

Oxygen supplies have been diverted from shipbreaking facilities and steel plants. Still, hospitals remain overwhelmed - with some desperate families even resorting to stealing oxygen cylinders from hospitals to keep their family members alive.

India recorded a daily high of 314,835 COVID cases on Thursday, but that worldwide record was broken within 24 hours when the country announced that it recorded 332,730 new cases and 2,263 deaths on Friday. The country now has over 16 million COVID cases, second only to the US's record of 32 million cases.
 
Seems like India may become a global threat. International travel to and from India must be stopped.


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media captionInside a Delhi hospital running low on beds and oxygen
India's healthcare system is buckling as a record surge in Covid-19 cases puts pressure on hospital beds and drains oxygen supplies.
Families are left pleading for their relatives who are desperately ill, with some patients left untreated for hours.
Crematoriums are organising mass funeral pyres.
On Friday India reported 332,730 new cases of coronavirus, setting a world record for a second day running. Deaths were numbered at 2,263 in 24 hours.
Oxygen crisis
Dr Atul Gogia, a consultant at the Sir Ganga Ram hospital in Delhi, told the BBC there had been a "huge surge" in patients, leaving no space in the emergency room.
"We do not have that many oxygen points. Whatever oxygen points are there, they're full. Patients are coming in with their own oxygen cylinders or without oxygen. We want to help them but there are not enough beds and not enough oxygen points even to supply them oxygen if it is there," he said.

"All our telephone lines are jammed. People are continuously calling the helpline. There is a big rush outside the hospital: there are ambulances parked, patients wanting to get deboarded, but the problem is, there is no space.
"We try to mobilise, we try to discharge patients who become stable as early as possible so that we can increase the turnaround, but things are difficult right now."
Analysis box by Soutik Biswas, India online correspondent

Every morning, for the past few days, I have been waking up to my phone buzzing with desperate messages for help.
People are seeking hospital beds, life-saving drugs, oxygen and plasma for their infected and sick friends and relatives. Often, after a period of silence, the same people announce the deaths of their "patients". My Twitter timeline is India's Covid-19 war-room, as the state appears to have largely withered away.
Every essential to save a life is in short supply or available on the black market. Then there's the fear of the virus literally "at your door". Over the past week, three buildings in the gated complex where I live have become "containment zones", with entire skyscrapers sealed because of too many infections. The days and nights are filled with helplessness, anxiety and fear. The bad news is unrelenting.
The Supreme Court of India has called this a "national emergency". This is beyond an emergency. It is a "complete collapse of the goddamn system", as one of India's leading virologists says. In hotspots like Delhi and Mumbai, life, itself, is now a privilege.

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Maharashtra, the worst-hit state in India, faces an oxygen shortfall. In the state capital, Mumbai, at least 13 patients died after a fire broke out in an intensive care unit of a hospital treating Covid patients.
Two days earlier, 24 Covid patients died in another part of the state after a leak interrupted the flow of oxygen to their ventilators.
On Friday morning, Max Healthcare, which runs 10 private hospitals around Delhi, put out an "SOS" message, saying it had less than an hour's supply remaining at two of its sites. The shortage was later resolved.
Three other states - Gujarat, Uttar Pradesh and Haryana - are also facing a critical shortage. The Indian Air Force is being used to lift oxygen tankers and supplies to different parts of the country.
Mass cremations at a crematorium ground in Delhi (22 April)
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image captionCrematoriums have resorted to mass funeral pyres as the number of bodies from Covid victims continues to rise
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How is medical oxygen made?
A separation process takes air and splits it into various gases, including oxygen. The oxygen is then purified, super-cooled and stored as a liquid, which is less bulky than keeping it as a gas.
The compressed oxygen is used to fill insulated tanks, which supply hospitals, or canisters for individual patients.

A vaporiser is used to turn the oxygen back into a gas before it is delivered to patients.
Worker arranges oxygen cylinders for transport to hospital in Hyderabad, India (23 April)
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image captionHospitals are struggling to get enough oxygen for Covid patients
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Why are cases so high in India?
Cases have surged during India's second wave, driven by a number of factors. Health protocols have been lax, with mask mandates sporadically enforced.
Millions of people attended a Hindu festival, the Kumbh Mela, which culminated 10 days ago with a mass dip in the River Ganges. New strains of the virus have emerged, including a "double mutant" strain.
Bollywood composer Shravan Rathod tested positive shortly after returning from the city where the Kumbh Mela was held and died not long after, his family confirmed.
As well as the Indian double-mutant strain, the UK strain is the primary variant found in the state of Punjab, National Centre for Disease Control Director Sujeet Kumar Singh told local media.
The UK strain is also particularly prevalent in Maharashtra and the city of Delhi, he added.
Dr Saswati Sinha, a critical care specialist in the eastern city of Kolkata, said emergency rooms and wards were packed to capacity.
"We are getting direct calls from our patients, our acquaintances, our neighbours: they are pleading with us to be able to accommodate some of their next of kin. But unfortunately, our situation is such that, although we are trying our best, we still have a huge number of patients whom we are not able to accommodate," she told the BBC.
"In 20 years of working in intensive care, I have never seen anything of this kind, ever."
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi met chief ministers of the most affected states and oxygen manufacturers on Friday.
He asked states to work together to stop hoarding and black marketeering, saying that the government was also looking at diverting industrial oxygen to ease the crisis.
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Pakistan handled Covid-19 better than India: Rahul Gandhi
Opposition leader also shares a graph on Twitter predicting Indian economy to shrink by 10.3%


News DeskOctober 16, 2020

Indian opposition leader Rahul Gandhi. PHOTO: FILE

Indian opposition leader Rahul Gandhi. PHOTO: FILE
Slamming the Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led Bharatiya Janata Party's government, opposition leader Rahul Gandhi on Friday said that Pakistan and Afghanistan handled the novel coronavirus pandemic better than India.
"Another solid achievement by the BJP government," said Rahul, sarcastically, in a tweet while sharing a graph of projected GDP growth of different countries. "Pakistan and Afghanistan handled Covid better than India," he added.

The graph showed the contraction of Indian economy by 10.3% — the highest in the region by far — while rest of the countries did significantly better than India.
According to Hindustan Times, this was the biggest slump of any major emerging nation and the worst since independence.
Earlier, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in its report had predicted that Asia’s third-largest economy will contract 10.3% for the fiscal year compared with its June prediction of a 4.5% drop.
Pakistan’s economy, which in the last fiscal year contracted by 0.4%, is projected to grow by 1% in this fiscal year 2020-21, the World Economic Outlook (WEO) had said in its report.
The WEO noted that inflation in Pakistan could be 10.2% on an annualised basis, which by 2025 is expected to remain around 8.6% and the unemployment rate, which till this fiscal year was 4.5% may further jump to 5.1%.
The IMF projected over 13.3% increase in unemployment in Pakistan within a year.
The IMF report projections suggest that Pakistan is in stagflation – a condition in which the economic growth rate is slow while unemployment and prices of goods and services are high.
The report observed that the revision was driven by second quarter GDP outturns in large advanced economies, which were not as negative as had been projected.
China’s return to growth, which was stronger than expected, and signs of a more rapid recovery in the third quarter, it said.
While the global economy is coming back, the ascent will likely be long, uneven, and uncertain, the IMF maintained.
But it observed that prospects had worsened significantly in some emerging markets and developing economies where infections were increasing rapidly.
The IMF also released the Global Financial Stability report, which showed that Pakistan’s External debt service through the end of 2021 as percentage of foreign currency reserves 102%.
is kam main bhi pakistan ko ghaseet liya saloon ne apna kam karo BC hamari jaan choro
 
how the tables have turned over...People criticized china for being a dictatorship but look how effeciently they controlled the virus..

And here we are with we wuzzzz larGesT DemOCRAZZZZZYYYYY in the world....
You can now shove that democracy up your ***.
 
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