Dr. Gagandeep Kang suggests people to learn to live with SARS-CoV-2 as its variants will continue to emergeSpeaking to ANI here today, Dr Kang said, "We will have to learn to live with SARS-CoV-2 and its variants which will continue to emerge. Th...
31 Dec, 2021, 07.44 PM IST
We need more real world effectiveness data from India and that would help us decide future policy: Gagandeep KangA study on mixing Covishield and Covaxin, two of the main Covid-19 vaccines currently available in India, is under way at CMC Vellore. But ...
27 Dec, 2021, 12.06 PM IST
'More data needed before we can start vaccinating children'What we really need is data, based on which we can make informed decisions. All that we have at the moment is DCGI approval of the vaccines...
14 Oct, 2021, 07.03 AM IST
Covid may be heading towards endemicity in India, local flare-ups may form 3rd wave: Vaccinologist Gagandeep KangThe endemic stage is when a population learns to live with a virus. It is very different from the epidemic stage when the virus overwhelms ...
20 Sep, 2021, 08.26 PM IST
Only way to decrease variants of COVID-19 is by increasing vaccination: Gagandeep KangKang said, "When we are infected or vaccinated we make antibodies in response to a whole virus or part of a virus. In a viral infection, th...
27 May, 2021, 05.06 PM IST
Covid vaccine gap increase based on science, not supply: GovernmentThe ministry of health and family welfare had said that the decision was taken after considering data from UK which had introduced a gap of...
16 May, 2021, 10.26 AM IST
Karnataka to have portal for vaccination: BS Yediyurappa“The CoWIN portal/application is found to have certain limitations with regard to choosing vaccination centres which is leading to chaos. W...
14 May, 2021, 07.41 AM IST
Current surge of virus may see a decline in middle to end of May: Gagandeep KangRight now it's doing a "world through" in areas it did not do last year, in the middle class population, in the rural areas and there is go...
06 May, 2021, 05.31 PM IST
Jabs of elderly should have been finished before opening it for 18-44: Health ExpertThe data from the second wave, Dr Kang said, could help India in broadly understanding how the virus would behave. Even as the government m...
05 May, 2021, 11.43 PM IST
Reinfections, new variants likely: Gagandeep KangKang said as we do not have enough evidence of these factors, it is important that India starts sequencing data in real time. To tackle thi...
22 Mar, 2021, 10.53 AM IST
Wear masks till there is understanding of effect of vaccinated population on transmission: Kang"We will now know through effectiveness studies that are currently being designed at WHO and I hope that India will participate in those st...
31 Dec, 2020, 08.13 PM IST
Women make a much stronger neutralising antibody response to the coronavirus than men: Gagandeep KangIn work & personal life, the load on women has increased since pandemic started, says Kang.
01 Oct, 2020, 09.43 AM IST
This is not a killer virus... but will stay here for a long time: Gagandeep KangAs India touches new peaks on Covid-19 cases every day, Gagandeep Kang, a Royal Society of London fellow and professor at CMC Vellore, shar...
08 Sep, 2020, 07.05 PM IST
Indians don't need to panic yet about coronavirus, says leading researcherFour of five people who have tested positive for coronavirus will get better on their own and there is no need for Indians to panic about t...
05 Mar, 2020, 03.26 PM IST
Global coalition inks pacts to find cure for coronavirusIt is important to learn lessons from the Ebola crisis and not wait a decade for a vaccine, says CEPI vice-chair Gagandeep Kang
25 Jan, 2020, 11.13 AM IST
My career would have gone differently if I were a man: Biologist Gagandeep KangBiologist Gagandeep Kang talks about the state of research in India and how gender impediments have slowed her career by at least six years.
04 May, 2019, 11.00 PM IST
Aiming for the moon: Women and a passion for scienceEvery survey demonstrates that girls in school do as well as boys in physics, chemistry, biology and mathematics. Nonetheless, when it come...
05 Sep, 2017, 11.06 AM IST