20-65% Drop In Tuberculosis Cases Notified During Lockdown
Navi Mumbai: The number of tuberculosis (TB) cases notified between March and June 2020 are 46% fewe...
COVID-19 BLOGS
Women Farmers Face Uncertain Future As Lockdown Affects Income
Mumbai: The lockdown enforced to limit the spread of COVID-19 has led to reduced income and limited ...
Latest Surveillance Testing Guidance To Prioritise Health Staff, Prisoners
The Indian government has updated its testing strategy for COVID-19 and included a section on testin...
Lockdown Reduced Pollution In Delhi Temporarily, Long-Term Relief Needs Policy Changes
New Delhi: As Delhi re-opens, cars are back on the road, construction is restarting, factories are r...
75% Of India’s Diabetes Patients Face A Higher COVID-19 Mortality Risk
Mumbai: With one in 11 Indian adults living with diabetes, the country has the largest share (16.6%)...
‘MLAs’ Salary Cuts May Have ‘Negligible’ Impact On State Finances or COVID-19 Funds’
State governments’ cuts in lawmakers’ salaries are likely to have a negligible impact on their f...
How To Enable MSMEs To Recover From The Lockdown
Bengaluru: In the aftermath of the COVID-19 epidemic and two months of stringent lockdown, India now...
States That Received Most Migrants Also Saw Most Road-Accidents Deaths
Mumbai: Of the several million migrant workers stranded across India during the world’s biggest lo...
Can Breastmilk From An Infected Mother Carry The COVID-19 Virus?
New Delhi: Can an infant contract COVID-19 from its mother through breastfeeding? Evidence is inconc...
Karnataka Schools Want To Postpone Exams, Reduce Syllabus, Offer Mental Health Support For Students
Bengaluru: As state governments grapple with the idea of reopening schools and expanding online clas...
How Not To Analyse COVID-19 Data
Mumbai & Guwahati: On June 11, 2020, as India’s reported COVID-19 tally neared 290,000 cases, ...
India’s Stimulus Package Fifth Worst On Global Environment Index
New Delhi: Focussed on carbon-intensive sectors such as manufacturing and the extraction of fossil f...
As Lockdown Ends, Infectivity Has Fallen But Cases Continue To Grow Exponentially
The effective reproductive number (R) of COVID-19 cases in India had fallen to 1.22 by June 4, but c...
Why We Don’t Know India’s Actual COVID-19 Mortality Ratio
Delhi and Jaipur: If India’s COVID-19 mortality ratio is calculated on the basis of cases with kno...
Study That Claimed HCQ Was Harmful To COVID-19 Patients Retracted
The authors of a study that had claimed the drug hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) had shown harmful effects ...
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40% Of Jan Dhan Account Holders Could Not Access Govt’s COVID-19 Relief: Survey
New Delhi: “Had I received the Jan Dhan transfer, Rs 500 would have given me a ray of hope... noth...
‘Reopening Public Services Is As Important As Reopening The Economy’
Bengaluru: Global economic output is expected to contract by 4.9% in 2020 owing to the COVID-19 lock...
In Shadow Of Conflict, Wildlife Trade Has Been Rising In J&K
Jammu: The endangered hangul, or Kashmiri stag, a species of which fewer than 250 now exist in Jammu...
‘Not All COVID-19 Patients Need Antivirals. New Drugs For Restricted Use At Physicians’ Discretion’
Mumbai: The number of novel coronavirus infections continues to rise across the country, with some c...
‘India Spent 1% Of GDP On Public Health For 15 Years. Result Is Vulnerability To Crises’
New Delhi: With the COVID-19 contagion raging across the country, India’s public health sector has...
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