The common understanding of the novel coronavirus pandemic is that the virus is life-threatening for those over 60 years of age. However, a new survey…
COVID-19 cases worldwide have surpassed 15 million, and nearly 620,000 deaths. On Thursday, the World Health Organization (WHO) urged people everywhere to play a part…
AIIMS Patna Director Prabhat Kumar on Friday made it clear that as long as the lockdown was in place in Bihar, the Coronavirus infection remained under…
Mothers with COVID-19 infection are unlikely to pass the virus to their newborn babies, if correct hygiene precautions are observed, according to an observational study.
The…
In times when the coronavirus spread is increasing day by day, affecting millions of lives all around the world, the World Health Organisation is trying it's…
Mental health declined substantially after the first month of COVID-19 lockdown, a survey of UK households published on Tuesday in The Lancet Psychiatry journal suggests.
Among the 17,452…
Oxford University’s COVID-19 vaccine has passed the second phase of the trials. After the success of the trial on 1,007 people, the vaccine’s third phase…
When the coronavirus infection started spreading in the country, the black marketing of N-95 masks had started and their price had increased manifold. It was then…
Disruption to cancer diagnosis services (referrals and routine screening) and people avoiding healthcare because of the COVID-19 pandemic could result in around 3,500 potentially avoidable…
Promising early stage results from a phase 1/2 clinical trial of the UK’s vaccine candidate against SARS-CoV-2 (the virus that causes COVID-19) have been published…
By Anasuya Basu
Ratul Bora, a resident of the sleepy village of Borburi in Upper Assam’s Tinsukia district has seen many television media teams and press…
The Indian Institute of Science, a Bangalore-based institution, estimates that by March 2021, there will be 37 lakh 40 thousand cases of the novel coronavirus…
If COVID-19 testing is delayed by three days or more after a person develops symptoms, even the most efficient contact tracing strategy cannot reduce onward…
There is evidence emerging that how the coronavirus infection affects people is varying from country to country and worse still, new symptoms are now being discovered.…