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What is Novel Corona Virus or COVID-19 | The Origin of COVID-19

The great human race came to a standstill in the year 2020 due to the deadly Corona virus also known as COVID-19. The outbreak began in the wet markets of Wuhan city located in Hubei province of China. Though the origin of this outbreak is still a mystery, our best researches indicates the origin to be a wet market in China. There were as few as 40 infections during December 2019 in Wuhan. However, it has now spread to 213 countries and territories around the world resulting in 6,463,647 infections and 382,709 deaths. COVID-19 has affected all forms of business around the world. There isn’t a single industry that hasn’t been touched by Corona Virus. Be it tourism, travel, agriculture, retail stores, there isn’t a single area that has been affected by COVID-19. However, most of the impact was borne by the health sector. It changed the way how we define human health.   For one, Nations understood that having superior medical infrastructure in their country is not enough as lon...

Vijay Kumar from India Wins Silver Medal in London Olympics 2012

The 26 year old army man, Vijay Kumar added pride to both Indian Army as well as the nation itself by winning a Silver medal in the London Olympics 2012. It was a tight competition and the best came out winning. Vijay Kumar faced 5 other top marksmen in the world to clinch this pride moment. The 25 meter Rapid Fire Pistol event saw the unsung hero winning a silver medal. There were no high expectations from this event.   There were six top shooters in the world for the 25m Rapid Fire Pistol event. It included world champion Alexei Klimov of Russia. Unfortunately he didn’t got any medal. Then there was Ding Feng and Zhang Jian  from China and Christain Reitz from Germany. Vijay Kumar is the second medal winner from India after Gagan Narang. Gagan Narang got a bronze medal in the 10m air rifle event.   Vijay Kumar in the Army… He belongs to the 16 th Dogra regiment in the Indian Army. He is an army Subedar.