Simply Put: The Deal

COVID-19:The world is not on the track to green recovery, finds UN report

Only 18% of recovery spending to deal with COVID-19 impact was green, the report said

‘COVID-19 India reproduction number exceeds 1’

Expert tracking novel coronavirus reproduction number flags surge in cases

Simply Put: Vaccine for a vaccine

Coronavirus is hundreds of times more deadly for people over 60 than people under 40

COVID-19 is approximately 2.5 times more deadly than the flu in this age group

COVID-19: Sitharaman’s ‘agri bouquet’ does not cut ice with farm experts

Farmers need immediate help rather than plans for the future, they say

COVID-19: Sitharaman’s MSME talk draws scepticism

Demand needs a leg-up: experts; Migrants question goes unanswered

COVID-19: Africa could suffer 1.2 bln infections, 3.3 mln deaths, UN agency warns

A host of factors make the continent particularly vulnerable to the pandemic, it said

Simply Put: CoVID-19 treatment

COVID-19: Government drops first hint of community transmission

ICMR epidemiology head, however, witholds details

Coronavirus genome is like a shipping label that lets epidemiologists track it

Online databases have been collecting SARS-CoV-2 genomic nucleotide sequences since mid-December. Whenever a patient tests positive for the virus,…

Few takers for Bihar’s revised COVID-19 death toll

Most experts say the government did not count deaths of people at homes, in ambulances, private hospitals and rural areas

Re-design health innovation ecosystem for the common good: WHO         

WHO’s Council on the Economics of Health for All issues brief on equitable health innovation

Bacterial co-infection uncommon in patients with community-acquired COVID-19: Lancet

‘Antimicrobial stewardship’ in COVID-19 patients will help slow emergence of antimicrobial resistance, report says

Post COVID-19 complication among children worries pediatricians

Children manifest this syndrome which usually involves multiple organs about four to six weeks after a COVID-19 infection.

New sublineages of Omicron’s BA.2 detected in India: How the virus has evolved over time

Sublineages might be behind recent rise in COVID-19 cases  

COVID-19 update: Why are we at a ‘tip of iceberg’ again

The head of Israel’s COVID-19 response has however said there was no cause to worry as of now

How drug companies are sidestepping the WHO’s technology transfer hub in Africa

The actions of BioNTech and Moderna will prolong the social and economic costs of the pandemic

Neanderthal-inherited gene variant helps in protecting against severe COVID-19: Study 

A protective Neanderthal-derived haplotype confers approximately 23% reduced risk of becoming critically ill on infection with SARS-CoV-2

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

How virulent is omicron? Study from Gauteng looks at clinical severity of 4th wave

Hospitalisations triggered by omicron infections fewer than those triggered by beta and delta variants; average time spent in hospital also less

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 …

Inconvenient truth: Why omicron emerged, and why it could have been avoided

Best bet to tide over current crisis remains what we have known since the beginning of pandemic: Treat vaccine hesitancy and vaccine nationalism, …

How Peru became the country with the highest COVID-19 death rate in the world

A fairly limited social security and fragile healthcare system meant Peru was not prepared to deal with a rise in COVID-19 cases

Global emissions almost back to pre-pandemic levels after unprecedented drop in 2020, new analysis shows

From the beginning of 2022, the world can emit an additional 420 billion tonnes of CO2 to limit global warming to 1.5℃, or 11 years of …