Dogs can be trained to sniff out COVID-19 — a team of forensic researchers explain the science

Scientists have found dogs can be trained to successfully recognise unique volatile organic compounds, or biomarkers

COVID-19 pandemic can slow progress in policy making for healthy ageing in Africa: WHO

Low literacy rates among elderly made access to online health services difficult

COVID vaccines: African countries need to fix their distribution chains

Africa’s score trails all major regions of the world in six key categories of logistics performance, including timeliness and tracking

COVID-19: Teachers report reduced capacity to help vulnerable students, finds UNESCO survey

Students with low socioeconomic status more likely to worry about future education, falling behind 

‘Traditional measures of pandemic preparedness don’t explain highest or lowest COVID-19 infections, mortality rates’

Erin Frame from the University of Washington, US, says trust has been shown to be valuable in keeping COVID-19 infection rates relatively …

Greater trust in government, people could have reduced COVID-19 caseload, fatality rate: Study

Less corrupt government resulted in more widespread, efficient COVID-19 vaccine coverage in some countries

COVID-19: Virus and vaccine lessons from 2021 for better 2022

Inoculation, restrictions, infrastructure and memory are effective tools in mitigating COVID-19 infection and easing restrictions on …

क्या उत्तर प्रदेश में कोरोना जांच में हो रहा फर्जीवाड़ा?

जिन लोगों ने एंटीजन टेस्ट नहीं कराया है, उनको भी संदेश मि…

‘Far from over’: Such a long journey for long COVID haulers

DTE reached out to the long-haulers it had contacted during the first COVID-19 wave: They are still as baffled and distraught with their …

हिमाचल: कर्मचारी हड़ताल पर, तेजी से घटे कोरोना के टेस्ट

हिमाचल प्रदेश में जहां रोजाना 10 हजार से अधिक कोविड टेस्ट…

Union Budget 2022-23: What India really needs

The consensus among economists and experts: The large but voiceless vulnerable sections need government protection and they need it now.

दो साल बाद: किस हाल में है भारत की पहली कोविड-19 पॉजीटिव

भारत में कोविड-19 की पहली शिकार महामारी के तीसरे साल में अ�…

Do we need a pandemic treaty?

The World Health Assembly proposed establishing a pandemic treaty on December 1, 2021

Two years on: India’s index COVID-19 patient describes her ordeal

On January 30, 2020, India reported its first case of COVID-19; the patient was a Thrissur resident studying medicine at Wuhan University. Here …

Viva Cuba for its vaccine revolution

Punching way above its weight, the tiny nation has developed five vaccines, and offers hope of vaccine equity across the world    

An engineer’s enduring struggle with Long Covid: ‘Various organs of my body were affected at random’

‘Our leaders chose not to prepare us for post-COVID-19 complications and continue to dismiss symptoms as anxiety’

What is the best mask for COVID-19? A mechanical engineer explains the science after 2 years of testing masks in his lab

What’s the difference between N95, surgical and cloth mask materials?

कोविड-19 वैक्सीन की दूसरी खुराक आपके लिए क्यों है जरूरी?

कोविड-19 वैक्सीन की दूसरी खुराक से शरीर को पहले टीके की तु�…

यूके में कोहराम मचाने के बाद भारत में भी मिले ओमिक्रॉन के सब-वेरिएंट बीए.2 के सैंपल

17 नवंबर, 2021 से लेकर अब तक दुनिया भर में करीब 40 देशों में सब-व…

What will help us live with COVID-19 in the future?

A combination of both vaccines or drugs would be needed 

COVID-19: Kerala’s alarming positivity rate challenges earlier claims of effective containment

Over the last week, the number of cases added increased 191%