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?

COVID-19: Odisha doctors help state’s stranded migrants in Telangana

Doctors take time off schedules and reach out to 100 migrant families, 400 individuals

COVID-19: NIRDPR, Unicef train 2.8 mln community leaders online

The programme aims to make village communities more aware of COVID-19

COVID-19: Bihar's healthcare workers threaten to leave, ask to be quarantined in absence of PPEs

Doctors in some cases, used polythenes, raincoats to protect themselves

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

Chad’s first dengue fever outbreak: What you should know

Chad doesn’t have necessary public health preparedness and response capacities, so the risk is high

Worst cholera outbreak since 2017 affecting children in Congo: UNICEF

DRC reported more cholera cases in the first seven months of 2023 than all of 2022

The COVID-19 pandemic turns 3-years-old

As the pandemic enters its fourth year, it is turning endemic

Now, TB test recommended for COVID-19 patients in case of persisting cough

Experts hail decision as opportunity to increase detection of both COVID-19 and TB

Simply Put: PM-JAY and COVID-19

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

Simply Put: Old virus, new strain

Making nursery admissions easier to giving gold coins: Indian cities’ push for COVID-19 vaccination

Only 39% of total population has received both doses of COVID-19 vaccine in India 

Pfizer wants to sell vaccines in India at no profit

The Pfizer vaccine is yet to be registered in India although it had applied months ago

Simply Put: In positive light

Odisha declares journalists as ‘frontline COVID-19 warriors’, announces ex-gratia

More than a dozen journalists have lost their lives due to COVID-19 in Odisha recently

Simply Put: The Deal

COVID-19:The world is not on the track to green recovery, finds UN report

Only 18% of recovery spending to deal with COVID-19 impact was green, the report said

‘COVID-19 India reproduction number exceeds 1’

Expert tracking novel coronavirus reproduction number flags surge in cases

Simply Put: Vaccine for a vaccine

COVID-19: Sitharaman’s ‘agri bouquet’ does not cut ice with farm experts

Farmers need immediate help rather than plans for the future, they say

COVID-19: Sitharaman’s MSME talk draws scepticism

Demand needs a leg-up: experts; Migrants question goes unanswered