Expert: Monkeypox likely spread by sex at 2 raves in EuropeIn an interview with The Associated Press, Dr. David Heymann, who formerly headed WHO's emergencies department, said the leading theory to ...
23 May, 2022, 07.39 PM IST
WHO is exploring when and how to declare the end of Covid emergencyThe WHO said it isn’t currently considering such a declaration. While cases have fallen in many places, fatalities have spiked in Hong Kong...
12 Mar, 2022, 02.07 PM IST
From pandemic to endemic: Can 2022 succeed where 2021 failed?The appetite for economically damaging lockdowns is long gone. Vaccines are protecting swathes of the population, and there is even hope th...
15 Jan, 2022, 11.50 PM IST
Not just India, new virus waves hit other developing nations tooNations ranging from Laos to Thailand in Southeast Asia, and those bordering India such as Bhutan and Nepal, have been reporting significan...
05 May, 2021, 08.00 AM IST
WHO and China: A healthy relationship?Critics believe Beijing has given the WHO the runaround throughout the crisis, and suggest China has been less than forthcoming with data t...
29 Mar, 2021, 01.59 PM IST
How Britain failed to stop the second wave: 50,000 Covid-19 deaths and risingAmong the world's wealthiest nations, Britain had the second-highest death toll from the coronavirus in the first wave of the pandemic, beh...
24 Nov, 2020, 03.41 PM IST
We will be living with the coronavirus pandemic well into 2021A vaccine won’t be ready until well into 2021, we’ll all be co-existing with Covid for the next year or longer.
19 Jun, 2020, 06.48 PM IST
The Wuhan lab at the heart of the US-China virus spatThe Chinese laboratory accused by top American officials of being the source of the coronavirus pandemic conducts research on the world's m...
06 May, 2020, 11.46 AM IST
The $90 trillion question is how to get people back to workAll eyes are on Wuhan, a center for steel-making and car manufacturing, as it begins opening up.
09 Apr, 2020, 04.25 PM IST
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India beware: Zika now an international health emergencyWHO estimates there could be up to 4 million cases of Zika in the Americas in the next year, but no recommendations were made to restrict t...
02 Feb, 2016, 06.42 AM IST
'Blood-based therapy may treat Ebola'Clinical trials of convalescent plasma therapy (CPT) have started in Liberia, and are due to begin soon in Guinea and Sierra Leone.
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- India awarded grant to prepare for influenza pandemic
India is among six developing countries who have been awarded grants to establish capacity to manufacture influenza vaccine so that it is r...
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