COVID-19: More than thousand Nepalese migrants stranded in India during harvest time

All the migrants have only one request for authorities in Nepal: To arrange for them an entrance to their home country

Give free hand to private sector on COVID-19 testing: Centre to states

Prescription by a govt doctor should not be mandatory, improve contract tracing too

COVID-19: Centre to convert surplus rice stocks to ethanol for making hand sanitisers

Government’s move comes as thousands of migrant workers starve 

COVID-19: Bihar woman showing symptoms dies in hospital without being tested

75-year-old woman suffered from asthma, had high fever and cough

COVID-19: Infection in Dutch mink farms point to ‘reverse zoonosis’

The COVID-19 outbreak has reached 12 out of 130 Dutch mink farms, according to Science 

Asymptomatic family contacts form bulk of COVID-19 cases in India: ICMR study

Nearly 40,000 individuals out of 1 mln tested positive for SARS-CoV-2 between Jan 22 and April 30, 2020. About 25.3% of them were asymptomatic …

Coronavirus update: Serum Institute gets nod for Oxford vaccine trials

India now accounts for nearly a tenth of the global number of COVID-19 cases, as the country reaches the 1.8 million mark

Funeral over a video call: COVID-19 lockdown forces Odisha migrants to stay away

Not being able to attend last rites of kin takes a toll on mental health

COVID-19: Why biocide overuse needs to be addressed to tackle AMR

Excessive use of biocides can be a potential threat that could drive AMR further, underlined a WHO editorial 

Global COVID-19 cases set to triple with over 3 billion omicron infections in coming 2-3 months: IHME

Australia and New Zealand may experience their worst outbreaks of this pandemic

WHO approves Tocilizumab for COVID-19 treatment

Extremely high price, poor availability bottlenecks in drug usage

Adoptions but also abuse: The COVID-19 pandemic is the best and worst of times for animals

When it comes to animals, not only do we need to look and watch. We need to really see

Simply Put: The art of governance

Coronavirus update: World tally crosses 8 mln

Everyday, 100,000+ new cases being added

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 …

COVID-19: Drizzle deters section of pilgrims but violations galore at Ganga Sagar Mela

“What can you do when a sea of people comes and overwhelms you,” say officials

Omicron in southern Africa: ‘Afrophobia’, say Malawians in wake of West’s travel ban

Malawian government says it has the capacity to do genomic sequencing and had not detected the Omicron variant till now

COVID-19 calls for a thoughtful appraisal about humanity’s equation with animals

Animals in captivity in zoos, circuses and other facilities, should be given humane treatment, should not be bred indiscriminately and should be …

COVID-19 vaccine poverty is the new GDP

COVID-19 vaccines have emerged as a critical capital to base economic recovery and reduce poverty faster. This makes them a powerful commodity to …

No medical staff, equipment in ‘model’ state Gujarat’s villages, as COVID-19 wreaks havoc

COVID-19 has spread to all of Gujarat’s 18,000 villages, alleges a state Congress member  

Vaccines work just fine without side effects says a new Lancet study

Only one in four people experience mild, short-lived systemic side-effects after receiving either the Pfizer Inc or the Oxford University-…

Over-stretched poll schedule driving COVID-19 cases in Bengal, claim experts

The state recorded 216 COVID-19 cases on February 26, when the poll schedule was announced; the number shot up to 5,892 by April 14

COVID-19: Carl Bildt appointed WHO special envoy for ACT-Accelerator

Carl Bildt, the new WHO special envoy for ACT-Accelerator, has an extensive experience as a career diplomat

How China is controlling the COVID origins narrative — silencing critics and locking up dissenters

Part of controlling the narrative has entailed the detention of many citizen journalists who sounded the alarm about the virus in its early days, …

Are all nations doing enough on SARS-CoV-2 sequencing? Clearly not

India has submitted only 20 genome sequences as compared to UK’s 93,544 since new variant surfaced