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: Government drops first hint of community transmission

ICMR epidemiology head, however, witholds details

COVID-19: Curves that matter

Projected paths of the pandemic

COVID-19 pandemic may have led to 14% spike in number of underweight children in Bihar, Odisha: Study

The proportion of underweight children increased from 31 per cent to 45 per cent between June 2017 and July 2021, the study found

How virus detectives trace the origins of an outbreak - and why it’s so tricky

Tracking down the origins of a virus involves a combination of extensive fieldwork, thorough lab testing and quite a bit of luck

COVID-19 fatality: India average 1 death in 51 cases, but 127 districts fare worse

Data gaps, under reporting suggest pandemic is more acute than Centre, states make it to be

COVID-19: How do things look 6 months since it all started

India did not get its 1st novel coronavirus positive case before end-January; But the situation has escalated to much worse

Residents of this Odisha village are conserving bats despite COVID-19 stigma

They strongly believe that the winged mammals have nothing to do with the disease’s spread

Learning lessons from across Europe – the hidden costs of COVID-19 on lung cancer

The World Economic Forum, in partnership with the Lung Ambition Alliance, established a taskforce to learn from the impact of COVID-19 on lung …

Here’s the first Africa-wide survey of the economic impact of COVID-19 on cultural industries

There are factors explaining the harsh impact of the pandemic on cultural industries in Africa. These range from levels of informality and the …

How COVID-19 puts women at more risk than men in Gauteng, South Africa

Women care for children and the elderly, are more likely to be visiting public health facilities to access healthcare for themselves or for …

Hand washing a must for COVID-19, but do we have enough water

Though hand washing during the present COVID-19 pandemic is essential, we have to be careful while using water for this purpose

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

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

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

Fix housing and you’ll reduce risks of coronavirus and other disease in remote Indigenous communities

Indigenous Australians living on remote country urgently need additional and functional housing

Less than 10% of African countries likely to hit COVID-19 vaccination goal

The continent has so far fully vaccinated only 6% of its population; 70% of high-income countries have vaccinated more than 40% of their populations

A look at India’s flawed public health policies through COVID-19’s prism

The COVID-19 pandemic has revealed many glaring loopholes in the implementation of public health management in India. Read on to know what they are

COVID-19 in 2023 and beyond — why virus trends are more difficult to predict three years on

In total, 13 billion vaccine doses have been administered — but not equitably.

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: 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