COVID-19: First line of defence or last resort?
Life-saving steroids were used indiscriminately during the pandemic’s second wave, but they can have lethal side effects. A DTE series on&…
Continued surveillance can help tweak vaccines for COVID-19 variants
Need to seamlessly connect vaccine development pipelines to variant identification and testing so that time can be saved while updating vaccines …
COVID-19: Pfizer, AstraZeneca efficacy significantly reduced against omicron, says UK health agency
Omicron is displaying growth advantage over delta and is poised to become dominant variant in UK
COVID-19 update: Considerable transmission will continue through 2022, says IHME
More than half of the world still susceptible to Delta variant towards the end of 2021, says IHME
Urgently need $7.7 billion to save lives from Delta, emerging COVID-19 variants: WHO
Huge gap in ACT-Acceletor funding needed to deliver crucial medical supplies across the world to combat COVID-19
COVID-19: Did India read mucormycosis right?
Diabetes, use of industrial oxygen, the Delta variant: Reasons attributed to surge in cases of mucormycosis are many. But doctors have warned …
COVID-19: India may see 1.25 million excess deaths by November 1, says IHME
Daily rate of excess deaths due to COVID-19 was greater than 4 per million in Kerala, Maharashtra, Manipur, Meghalaya and Sikkim, the report …
Massive numbers of new COVID–19 infections, not vaccines, are the main driver of new coronavirus variants
Variants have tended to have many of the same mutations that increase the amount of virus an infected person produces
New Delta+ variant found in India can escape antibodies
Mutations in the Delta+ variant can render vaccines and treatments ineffective
China goes back to lockdowns amid worst COVID-19 outbreak in 2 years
The latest surge is driven by the omicron variant of COVID-19
COVID-19 in India: Is it time to mingle yet?
India might lose the fight against the virus once again unless precautions are taken
Deltacron: New variant or lab error? Here’s what we know
Here’s why experts think deltacron may not be an actual variant
How will Delta evolve? Here’s what the theory tells us
Future variants will make vaccines less effective
COVID-19 herd immunity? It’s not going to happen, so what next?
The only sustainable solution is to learn to live with the virus.
WHO lists only one strain of COVID-19 that emerged in India as a variant of concern
WHO had declared a total of three strains found in India variants of concern
DTE Exclusive: 70% COVID-19 cases in Kolkata now due to Omicron
Ganga Sagar Mela given go-ahead by Calcutta High Court with conditions
2021 saw over twice as many COVID-19 cases as 2020, December worst month on record
2021 saw 1.8 times more COVID-19 deaths than 2020
The missing piece in Omicron’s family tree: Where did the variant originate?
There are currently 3 thoeries being considereed by the medical fraternity
Omicron now in 63 countries; can become dominant in Europe soon: WHO
Overall risk related to Omicron remains very high due to multiple reasons, flags WHO
Africa’s third COVID-19 wave may be its worst, warns WHO
The surge during the current wave can surpass the peak of the last one by early July
Know the Delta: A game of hide and seek
Should we be studying the variants more?