COVID-19 policy briefs must be realistic: A review by young southern African scientists

The young scientists highlighted the need for policies that are appropriate for people’s real lives

Oxford COVID vaccine authorised in the UK – global health expert on why this is a key moment

To know the impact of the Oxford vaccine, we’ll have to wait and see. However, amid the intense doom and gloom of 2020, having multiple …

When do politicians get to think?

The people’s representative is facing a paradox: Of keeping away from people due to COVID-19. A good vision is needed to make good politics

Pandemic preparedness: Global spending needs 500 years to match COVID-19 rout

New report by WHO arm calls for robust global governance for preparedness to prevent the next pandemic

COVID-19’s important lesson: Living with little

Learning to live with little is not living in poverty, but to cook and eat what is required, reducing gluttony and wasting little

COVID-19: Thousands pushed to starvation due to faulty biometric system in Bihar

Poor, elderly not able to match fingerprints on system, not getting food grain as a result

COVID-19: Why are the migrant workers so desperate to move out?

Partition migration was triggered by a newly drawn line between two nations whereas the present exodus highlights another kind of divide, within …

COVID-19: Gaya is using drones to sanitise streets, buildings

Gaya municipal corporation staff are making their own sanitiser using neem leaves, aloe vera

COVID-19: South Africa extends national lockdown by two weeks

The country’s increase in confirmed cases slowed to a daily average of 4% from 42% in two weeks   

Coronavirus: Country comparisons are pointless unless we account for these biases in testing

When statistics are communicated at press conferences or in the media, their limitations should be explained and any relevance to the individual …

Humidity levels decide the transmission of bird flu: study

While absolute humidity drives influenza across latitudes, temperature modulates the effect

Give free hand to private sector on COVID-19 testing: Centre to states

Prescription by a govt doctor should not be mandatory, improve contract tracing too

Simply Put: COVID-19 and students

COVID-19: Centre to convert surplus rice stocks to ethanol for making hand sanitisers

Government’s move comes as thousands of migrant workers starve 

COVID-19: Shortage in Odisha blood banks

People are finding it tough to get access to blood in the state's 83 blood banks

COVID-19: Community transmission detected in 12 African countries

Number of cases in Africa jump 3 times in 1 week

Some unexpected lessons for living with wildlife post-COVID 

Wildlife can be tamed, killed, caged, eaten, but it can rage a silent war over us like COVID-19

Horse serum may be used for COVID-19 treatment: ICMR D-G

Bhargava ignores question on why plasma therapy still used despite a negative ICMR study  

Man sacrificed in Odisha to ‘prevent COVID-19’

Crime committed by priest in a temple in Cuttack district

Science of controlling pandemics: Lessons for countries in tackling COVID-19

South Korea took immediate action, while Japan's measures were perplexing

COVID-19: Did SARS-CoV-2 originate in raccoon dogs from Wuhan wet market? New data gives links

Meanwhile, Israel reports new COVID-19 variant — a combination of BA.1 and BA.2 subvariants of Omicron

COVID-19: A well-functioning healthcare system is the need of the hour

India needs to revisit the past, think twice about healthcare conditions and fill the gaps to combat the present crisis

COVID-19: 3 distinct immune responses to SARS-CoV-2 identified

The discovery could help predict the trajectory of disease in severe cases and ultimately inform treatment decisions

COVID-19: Kerala grapples with alcoholism amid lockdown

7 deaths related to alcoholism reported as of April 2, 2020, with several in de-addiction centres

Simply Put: Dip, dip, dip