India’s COVID-19 deaths higher than that reported by the government, indicate sample surveys

India’s cumulative COVID-19 deaths are 6-7 times higher than reported officially, says analysis

Kerala, COVID-19 management exemplar? Data on additional deaths forces rethink

Kerala government may have suppressed data regarding true number of deaths in 2021 for political reasons, say experts

Patients with COVID-19 shouldn’t have to die alone. Here’s how a loved one could be there at the end

Rather than just using a risk-minimisation approach to managing COVID-19, there’s scope for some flexibility and creativity in addressing …

Classify COVID-19 as ‘occupational disease’, trade union federation tells UK government

Section of Indian experts say the country needs to follow suit but is a long way off

COVID-19: Why are cases rising in Kerala?

Measures that would keep the virus away are still not clear  

In most countries, excess deaths due to COVID-19 greater than leading causes of death: World Bank analyst

Pandemic hit countries even with a younger population where a milder impact was earlier assumed

Did unprecedented Covid deaths, funerals cause spike in Delhi’s pollution levels during second wave

New study recorded an unusual increase in particulate matter during the second wave lockdown

Data on COVID-19 deaths in ‘model’ Gujarat may be a vast undercount: Report

There were 16,892 more deaths in 68 of Gujarat’s 170 municipalities between March 2020 and April 2021, the Reporters’ Collective found

COVID-19 toll: UP government may be undercounting its dead

Down to Earth visits an electric crematorium in Lucknow to uncover discrepancies in figures 

COVID-19 toll : Are the government figures about Bihar COVID-19 deaths correct

Down To Earth visits one of Patna’s oldest cremation grounds to unearth a discrepancy in figures  

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Audit COVID-19 death from oxygen shortage: Parliamentary panel to health ministry

The report also advised expanding the genome sequencing machinery in the country & conducting studies on COVID-19 origins

As told to Parliament (August 10, 2021): A third of India’s coastline under erosion

All that was discussed in the Houses through the day

India may have seen most COVID-19-related deaths globally — close to 5 million

Official figures show 531,843 deaths; mortality could be 10 times the reported figures, show WHO estimates 

COVID-19: Who stands where as world tops 10 million cases

The world added the last million cases positive to the novel coronavitus in only 6 days — the fastest rate until now  

We were on a global panel looking at the staggering costs of COVID. Here are 11 ways to stop history repeating itself

Massive global failures in the pandemic led to 17.7m deaths and counting

Coronavirus update: World adds record new cases

Global COVID-19 tally jumped by 189,077 in 24 hours — the most until date

‘COVID-19 has become endemic in India’

The risk of a future severe wave in the country is very low, says expert

COVID-19: Spike in infections, new variant raise worry in South Africa

The new variant is now dominant, responsible for 99 per cent of all positive COVID-19 cases in the country 

ICMR finds no links between unexplained deaths during COVID-19 pandemic and vaccines

Family history of sudden deaths, COVID-19 hospitalisation and high-risk behavioural factors could have increased risk of sudden cardiac deaths

Coronavirus update: 165 countries engaged in COVID-19 vaccine global access facility

India records highest single-day spike of 32,695 cases

Is bar soap as gross as millennials say? We’re all covered with microbes anyway

We can’t see the trillions of microbes — the bacteria, fungi and viruses; we are ecosystems that house all kinds of microbial life