Canadian scientists lead Nobel Prize medicine race for developing mRNA vaccineResearch has estimated that 19.8 million lives were saved by the vaccines in 2021.
Coronavirus was not a lab leak, it came from the Wuhan market, study saysThe take-home message is the COVID pandemic probably did begin where the first cases were detected - at the Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market...
India's vaccination record one of the best for its income level: Bill GatesThe development of vaccines, notably in India, has benefited from funding by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. In a new book, ' How to...
When Modi lectured Trump on human rightsIndia has never been coy about raising human rights issues with the US, contrary to the perception that this is a one-way conversation with...
How will Covid-19 variant Delta evolve? Here's what the theory tells usEvolution is a result of random mutations (or errors) in the viral genome when it replicates. A few of these random mutations will be good ...
People gave up on measures during 1918 influenza pandemic and paid a priceThe pandemic wore on, stretching into a third deadly wave that lasted through the spring of 1919.
View: Why this Covid catastrophe is upon us, and what we need to do nowHospital beds are impossible to come by even for the rich and powerful who find to their horror that wealth and status pose no obstacle to ...
New kind of coronavirus that affects pigs has the potential of jumping from swines to humansThe virus causes severe diarrhea and vomiting, and has been especially deadly to young piglets.
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...
To combat Covid, look where it strikes, says Harvard expertThe number of people infected by SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes Covid-19, crossed 70,000 in India this week and, like the trends seen in...
Death toll in China's coronavirus goes up to 9; total cases rise to 440The coronavirus is a large family of viruses that causes illnesses ranging from the common cold to acute respiratory syndromes, but the vir...