Covid-19

As Maharashtra renews efforts to fight COVID-19, hidden truths start emerging.

Court steps in to ease congestion in jails

Interview: Ramanan Laxminarayan, economist and epidemiologist

COVID-19 has struck Maharashtra’s prisons again. As of April 25, there were 230 active ...

Ramanan Laxminarayan: ‘Vaccination the only way out of the pandemic’

Interview with Ramanan Laxminarayan, economist and epidemiologist.

COVID-19 Second Wave

Second wave overwhelms Delhi’s health care facilities and crematoriums

Anando Bhakto

Even as health care facilities are overwhelmed by the massive surge in infections and ...

COVID-19 Second Wave

Pandemic second wave deepens into unprecedented crisis

The government has few constructive leads to offer as the second wave of the pandemic ...

COVID-19 Second Wave

The fiasco that is India’s COVID-19 vaccine policy

V. Sridhar

The Modi government’s decision to deregulate vaccine procurement and deliveries, just as ...

Opaqueness in India’s National Task Force for COVID-19 shows the government did not prepare for the second wave of the pandemic

R. Ramachandran

The fact that India does not know the names of the 21 members of its National Task Force ...

Telangana government to recruit 50,000 medical school graduates on a temporary short-term basis for COVID-19 relief work

Ravi Sharma

To ease the fatigue, stress and pressure being faced by frontline health workers treating ...

Telangana feeling the strain of rising cases, vaccine shortage

Ravi Sharma

Non-availability of doses is hampering the State’s vaccination drive even as the sudden ...

COVID-19 Update: KARNATAKA

COVID-19: Families vulnerable in Andhra Pradesh

Ravi Sharma

In Andhra Pradesh, entire families are getting the infection owing to asymptomatic cases ...

Rapid rise in COVID-19 cases in Bengaluru

Vikhar Ahmed Sayeed

Bengaluru has more than 65 per cent of all active cases recorded in Karnataka in a ...

COVID-19 Update: Kerala

Kerala’s two-pronged strategy to ‘crush the curve’

R. Krishnakumar

The Kerala government intensifies its containment and prevention strategies to bring down ...

Interview: Dr Shashank Joshi

Dr Shashank Joshi: ‘Vaccination will not impact surge’

COVID-19 CASES AND DEATHS

Interview with Dr Shashank Joshi, member of the Maharashtra COVID Task Force and a ...

COVER STORY: Gujarat

Gujarat may soon overtake Maharashtra in COVID numbers

Anupama Katakam

COVID numbers in Gujarat are rising dangerously, straining the State’s poor public health ...

Lessons from the ‘first wave’

Ritu Priya Krishna Choudhary

An attempt to understand India’s paradox of high COVID infection rate but low case rate ...

COVER STORY: Chhattisgarh

Sharp spike in COVID cases in Chhattisgarh

Divya Trivedi

Chhattisgarh’s public health structure is on the verge of breakdown as it faces a deadly ...

Cover story: COVID-19 Update

In second COVID wave, Asia and Latin America suffer acute shortage of vaccines, health sectors overwhelmed

John Cherian

As the pandemic rages across the world and nations of the global South continue to face ...

Covid update

Maharashtra government opts for cooperation over coercion in its new COVID control policy

Opting for cooperation over coercion in its new COVID control policy, Maharashtra ...

Vaccine

What are the criteria to compare vaccines?

T. Jacob John

India had a golden opportunity to evaluate every serious ‘adverse events following ...

Covid Update

COVID-19 vaccines: Trials & errors

R. Ramachandran

As foreign-made vaccines are cleared for emergency use and post-approval parallel bridging ...

Cover story

COVID second wave: Clueless Centre cannot hold

As the second wave of COVID-19 rages across the nation overwhelming the public health ...

Reports

PEW report points to how the pandemic has led to a shrinking of the middle class in South Asia