Simply put: What’s cooking in lockdown

Simply Put: Corona warriors

Coronavirus update: Uttar Pradesh records first death

Record 72 new cases in Maharashtra yesterday

Simply Put: COVID-19 testing

Simply Put: Corona preparedness

Removing antimicrobial resistance from the WHO’s ‘pandemic treaty’ will leave humanity vulnerable to future pandemics

If governments are serious about pandemic preparedness, they must support bold measures to conserve the effectiveness of antimicrobials within …

Corporate social responsibility practices in the times of COVID-19: A study of India’s BFSI sector

Banking, finance and insurance firms must understand the areas in which the society needs action and focus on them

EG.5.1 Covid variant takes off, India not at risk currently

On August 11, India has 1,505 active Covid-19 cases according to the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare  

New COVID-19 variant ‘Eris’: How bad is the new EG.5.1 variant?

There is currently no evidence to suggest that Eris is more dangerous or causes more severe disease than previous variants

A political thought for food

Global parliamentarians are forming a multilateral body to reform the agrifood system

Preempting pandemics: Viral discovery is not enough to stop another contagion; here is why

Despite hundreds of novel coronaviruses being sampled, the COVID-19 pandemic grew over an order of magnitude beyond its 2003 SARS counterpart

Reinfection will be part of the pandemic for months to come. Each repeat illness raises the risk of long COVID

We would and reduce the burden of long COVID if we increased vaccination coverage and universally adopted Japanese-style regular mask use and …

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

Residual pandemic: How India is battling long COVID

There is a huge number of people who have defeated COVID-19, but continue to suffer its debilitating long-term effects

Omicron: What we know so far

The recent variant of concern threatens to derail the process of normalisation across the world. Here’s a quick primer

How the COVID-19 pandemic affected North America

One of the biggest factors that resulted in the rapid spread of the infection across the continent of North America was the overconfidence and …

Smokers were never really protected from COVID, despite what early studies claimed

COVID-19 should teach us to hold extraordinary claims — about smoking, vitamin D, zinc, bleach, gargling iodine, or nebulising …

Silent pandemic needs agenda for change

The rise of antimicrobial resistance is as catastrophic as COVID-19 or climate change  

This Pride month, the LGBTQIA+ community wants to talk about healthcare, pandemic crisis

The community wants special provisions for them during the global crisis and sensitivity training for medical staff, among other things

COVID-19 aftershocks: This is an economic collapse triggered by a health crisis

Mehrotra is visiting professor, Centre for Development, University of Bath, UK, and former economics professor, Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi

Modi’s COVID-19 vaccine turnaround: An answer for Supreme Court queries just in time

The bench of judges Chandrachud, Rao and Bhat have already asked the Union government to review the vaccination policy and file an affidavit by …

COVID-19: Half the world unable to provide regular day-to-day primary care

More than a year into the pandemic, countries remain preoccupied with the COVID-19 care compromising on other healthcares  

Mass poverty is back in India

After 45 years, the world’s fastest poverty-reducing country adds the maximum poor in a year  

Interested in vaccine rollouts across Africa? Here’s a map to guide you

A map that will be updated daily, showing how many people have been vaccinated across the continent

When climate change and other emergencies threaten where we live, how will we manage our retreat?

Developing the new legislation will involve difficult decisions about why, when, how and where retreats take place — and at whose cost