Coronavirus live updates: Govt exploring various options on financing Covid-19 vaccine development

South Asia region stands to lose $622 billion from the school closures in the present scenario or up to $880 billion in a more pessimistic scenario, it said, adding while the regional loss is largely driven by India, all countries will lose substantial shares of their GDP.

Veteran actor Soumitra Chatterjee received a second shot plasma therapy at Belle Vue Clinic, where he is under treatment for Covid encephalopathy. The 85-year-old remains breathless and is on intermittent oxygen support, and may have to be put on invasive airway protection.

Most schools that have set question papers for higher classes have kept in mind that online, from-home examinations may — for all practical purposes — end up as open-book tests. So, the pattern of questions has changed from text- to application-based, going beyond the only-MCQ format and making it essential for students to write long-form answers and essential for them to study texts more thoroughly, say teachers and experts.

China’s Qingdao city said on Monday it will conduct Covid-19 tests for the entire population of more than 9 million people over five days after new cases appeared linked to a hospital treating imported infections. The city reported six new COVID-19 cases and six asymptomatic cases as of late Oct. 11. Most of the cases were linked to the Qingdao Chest Hospital.