Ambulance driver ostracised in Odisha for transporting COVID-19 patient
Banamali Sethi faced discrimination from his fellow villagers and apathy from the government for doing his duty
Coronavirus update: First death in India
Foreign Minister S Jaishankar said the novel Coronavirus outbreak was “a matter of concern”
Enabling local government systems to combat COVID-19 in India
Front line workers from all the departments play an integral role in containing the pandemic
Delight, relief and caution: six experts on New Zealand’s move to ease its coronavirus lockdown
The country’s government will consider relaxing restrictions further on May 11, 2020
COVID-19: An extreme disorder
Flattening the epidemiological curve also means an economic cessation. Who will bear the burden most in an unequal world?
Breathe through your nose during COVID-19
By inhaling through the nose, you are delivering Nitric Oxide directly into your lungs, where it increases both airflow and blood flow and keeps …
When COVID-19, climate collide: How south Asia can prepare itself
Careful planning is needed to avoid major damage, while marshalling resources towards limiting the spread of COVID-19
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.
Latest Nipah Virus Outbreak reports 33% case fatality rate, all bat samples tested negative: WHO
While the bats did not test positive this time around, previously, evidence of the virus has been detected in dogs, cats, goats, sheep, and horses
Extreme climate events fuel cholera outbreaks in Mozambique, Madagascar: WHO
Measures to deal with such outbreaks must be a key agenda of the governments across southern Africa, say experts
WHO warns of ‘worrying surge’ in cholera cases globally
As many as 26 countries recorded cholera cases this year, with seven deaths in Haiti so far
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 …
COVID-19: Child immunisation pushed back by years in India during 2020
As many as 23 million children across the world did not get routine vaccines, according to WHO-Unicef analysis