Coronavirus: 'Difficult to talk of trajectory but should die down by May'

Down To Earth interviewed Eric Feigl-Ding, epidemiologist with Harvard Chan School of Public Health, on the ongoing coronavirus outbreak

COVID-19 flattens peak-hour pollution

The flat rates of peak-hour pollution due to the lockdown proves why strong action is needed to reduce traffic volumes and cut tailpipe emissions …

Second case of coronavirus confirmed in India

The patient, again from Kerala, has been quarantined and is being monitored

Four test negative for Coronavirus, confirms health ministry

Ten persons in Mumbai, Bengaluru and Hyderabad under surveillance

COVID-19 is an opportunity

It provides a chance to work towards strengthening public health systems and better disaster resilience

Coronavirus update: India tally crosses 500

Almost the whole country under lockdown

Do not travel to China: Indian govt to citizens

Issuance of Indian e-visas to Chinese passport holders or foreign nationals living or travelling from China has been temporarily suspended

Bats likely source of novel coronavirus: China scientists

Death toll rises to 9 in China; first case detected in US; WHO to hold emergency meet

COVID-19: Has community transmission begun in India?

Govt denies India in Phase 3 but experts not sure about its claim

COVID-19: Is India testing enough, communicating right?

Criteria for testing still limited; govt using scientific terms wrongly, experts say

Coronavirus update: 300 million children miss classes

US death toll hits 11, thousands on board cruise ship could be infected

Iranian officials squabble over toll as COVID-19 sweeps West Asia

Meanwhile, Chinese federal government to increase funds to local governments even as world races to develop a vaccine

WHO declares coronavirus outbreak as global health emergency

After Vietnam, Germany and Japan; US too confirms human-to-human transmission in their countries

Coronavirus: How will govt ‘test’ over 43,000 China-returned travellers?

NIV in Pune currently has reagents to test only 5,000 people

Too early to declare Coronavirus outbreak an int'l emergency: WHO

'Neither severity, source nor extent of virus' transmission completely known yet'

COVID-19: Kenya ensures kids keep learning amid lockdown

A state body under the education ministry has intensified delivery of school programmes through radio and television broadcasts

WHO declares COVID-19 outbreak a pandemic

Alarmed not only at severity of disease but also by countries’ inaction, says WHO director general

Coronavirus: Expert fears global epidemic

Human-to-human transfer can lead to local epidemics, independent of Wuhan: Hong Kong expert

Second case of Coronavirus confirmed in the US

Individuals with no ailments infected more, say first set of clinical findings for Chinese patients

COVID-19: WHO raises risk level for world to ‘very high’

Global stock markets plunged on February 28 amid fears of a pandemic as the disease spread to 53 countries

Revealed: Protein ‘spike’ that lets novel coronavirus pierce, invade human cells

Knowing the structure of the virus’s spike protein gives us crucial information about exactly how the virus infects host cells

COVID-19: Egypt, South Africa, Algeria at highest risk in Africa

Labs ill-equipped, health systems lack isolation and quarantine facilities: Lancet paper

Novel coronavirus outbreak not a pandemic: WHO

It is only an epidemic with multiple foresides as most cases are concentrated in China, says UN body

Coronavirus update: India tally nears 150

World tally close to 200,000

Coronavirus update: 2nd death in India in west Delhi

Bolsonaro's test results awaited