No scientific proof to suggest third wave will hit children: AIIMS director Randeep GuleriaDispelling fears that children could be at risk of serious infection, Guleria said that there was no evidence that children could be at ris...
09 Jun, 2021, 07.55 AM IST
View: A nightmare without end, the pandemic is emotionally scarring us in ways yet to be fully graspedRelatives, friends, colleagues, neighbours: Nobody has been spared from the random charge of the virus. The overall loss of intellectual an...
10 May, 2021, 11.52 AM IST
View: Pandemics are caused by germs but spread by people who are in denialThe 1918 ‘Spanish’ flu had a mild first wave but returned later in the year to cause havoc. In India there were an estimated 12 to 20 milli...
18 Apr, 2021, 10.11 AM IST
French nun who defied Covid (and Spanish flu and 2 World Wars) toasts 117th birthday with red wine, prayerSister Andre, who lived through the Spanish flu more than a century ago, said the day had brought her immense joy.
12 Feb, 2021, 05.43 PM IST
ET Budget 2021 special edition: The Roaring 20s2020s can be a roaring decade for India, and it could start with this budget. Just as the 1920s boom followed the Spanish Flu, a 2020s boom...
03 Feb, 2021, 03.22 PM IST
Economic Survey: The barbell strategy that dictated India's response to the coronavirus pandemicThe strategy hedges for a worst outcome initially and then calibrates the response step by step through a feedback mechanism.
29 Jan, 2021, 06.14 PM IST
View: The powerful forces that will propel growth in the next decadeA century later, once the Covid-19 pandemic begins to fade away, we are likely to see another such decade: the Roaring Twenties of the 21st...
18 Dec, 2020, 10.23 AM IST
Second wave of Covid infections is not a wave, but it’s a Tsunami: Uddhav ThackerayAddressing the state, Maharashtra Chief Minister said that the second wave of Covid infections could be far worse then the first wave and t...
08 Nov, 2020, 02.46 PM IST
View: A strong case can be made for the robust revival of India's movie theatresHowever, the cinema industry quickly adapted to the challenges of the times - the dent to the wallet was smaller as compared to other expen...
12 Oct, 2020, 08.54 AM IST
World Health Organisation chief hopes pandemic ends in two years"We hope to finish this pandemic (in) less than two years, especially if we can pool our efforts," he said during a press briefing on Frida...
22 Aug, 2020, 05.34 PM IST
Godrej Consumer Products sees 2020 as 'second beginning' for companyOver a century after making its first soap in 1918 during the Spanish flu pandemic, becoming the first company in the world to produce soap...
15 Jul, 2020, 06.07 PM IST
All lives matter: Why has Covid-19 seen lockdowns on an unprecedented scale?A little over 100 years ago, Spanish flu killed about 15 million people in India. Mahatma Gandhi too came down with it but it failed to mak...
01 Jul, 2020, 10.51 AM IST
Stimulus must be in line with tax-GDP ratio, says CEA Krishnamurthy SubramanianSubramanian is optimistic that the economy will stage a better recovery once the outbreak subsides.
08 May, 2020, 10.08 PM IST
Coronavirus-afflicted 2020 looks like 1918 despite science's marchIn 1918, no one had a vaccine, treatment or cure for the great flu pandemic as it ravaged the world and killed more than 50 million people....
05 May, 2020, 10.41 AM IST
An unwanted shipment: The Indian experience of the 1918 Spanish fluWhile some realities have only marginally changed over the last century, the nature of the administration has drastically transformed from ...
03 Apr, 2020, 12.53 PM IST
108-yr-old woman, who survived Spanish flu pandemic, becomes oldest in UK to die from coronavirusShe passed away on Saturday at her care home in Salford city - less than 24 hours after testing positive for COVID-19, the daily said. She ...
29 Mar, 2020, 03.22 PM IST
Houston hospital first in US to try coronavirus blood transfusion therapyThe individual, who has been in good health for more than two weeks since being diagnosed with the deadly coronavirus, donated the blood pl...
29 Mar, 2020, 02.01 PM IST