COVID-19: Did IMA meet lead to hundreds of doctors in Bihar testing positive

Out Patient Department and other healthcare services affected in Bihar due to sheer number of infections among doctors, say reports

COVID-19 is now in 706 of 733 districts of India

The virus has so far not been detected in 14 districts in Arunachal Pradesh and Nagaland, and 10 districts of Telangana

Nearly 60% of global population to be infected with omicron by March: IHME

Daily COVID-19 cases set to hit 5 million by January, despite a major drop in the infection-detection ratio, says IHME

Came in contact with a COVID-19 patient? No need for tests, says ICMR

Medical experts hail ICMR’s move to relax testing guidelines though a large number of asymptomatic contacts stand to be excluded

COVID-19 spreading out from Kolkata to the rest of Bengal: Centre

Five Bengal districts within top ten in India with maximum COVID-19 positivity rate

Deltacron: New variant or lab error? Here’s what we know

Here’s why experts think deltacron may not be an actual variant

Simply Put: En route to Ganga Sagar Mela

No mixing of vaccines in India for booster dose. What do experts say?

Studies point to better protection with mixed doses; experts call data ‘fragmentary’

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 

Treatment for COVID-19 in Omicron wave: What to go for, what to avoid

Experimental therapies used to treat COVID-19 in India’s first two waves should not be used this time, warn doctors

COVID-19: Calcutta HC to decide on Ganga Sagar Mela, Bengal municipal polls

Doctors, activists have urged judiciary, state government to defer ‘super spreader’ events such as Ganga Sagar Mela, municipal polls …

DTE Exclusive: 70% COVID-19 cases in Kolkata now due to Omicron

Ganga Sagar Mela given go-ahead by Calcutta High Court with conditions

COVID-19 third wave: The world is still dangerously unprepared

World enters an endless loop of disease outbreaks and remains dangerously unprepared for such crises even in third year of the COVID-19 pandemic

Vaccine inequity created perfect conditions for emergence of SARS-CoV-2 variants: WHO

Cannot call omicron mild only because it is causing less severe disease, says WHO

What is Omisure, India’s first RT-PCR kit that identifies omicron in under 4 hours

This kit can identify omicron by targeting two regions of the spike gene, which bears heavy mutations  

Festivities, election rallies: What happened in the weeks leading up to India's 2nd COVID-19 wave

An account of last year's superspreader events illustrates how we may be in a similar sitation now 

COVID-19 third wave: How do Delhi’s hospitals fare?

DTE visited a few hospitals in the national capital to take a pulse of the situation

Simply Put: Old virus, new strain

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

Omicron, Delta driving 3rd COVID-19 wave in Kolkata and Bengal: Experts

Delta constitutes a large number of the current infections but Omicron will soon take over as the dominant COVID-19 variant in Kolkata and West …

Overall mortality rose 41% in Chennai during COVID-19 pandemic

There were 5.18 excess deaths per 1,000 people in Chennai between March 1, 2020 and June 30, 2021: The Lancet

Simply Put: O for Omicron

New novel coronavirus variant reported in 12 cases from southern France has 46 mutations

At least 12 people test positive for the virus with this new variant, called IHU; too early to comment on its virological, epidemiological or …

Omicron in southern Africa: How the region reacted after the variant emerged

Omicron variant: How should India deal with a fresh surge in COVID-19 cases?

India reported 1,700 omicron cases as of January 3