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We failed them
25 April 2020 10:57 PM ISTWe as a civilised society must take stock of the shameful incidences of healthcare workers and doctors being ostracised and assaulted by those they...
Automated RNA extraction could significantly increase testing capacity; only 29 laboratories in India have it
25 April 2020 12:15 AM ISTNew Delhi: As the Union Health ministry on Friday insisted that the COVID-19 positivity rate has been in control despite the increase in testing over...
Despite surging cases, Delhi manages to keep hospitalisation rate stable
23 April 2020 11:48 PM ISTNew Delhi: As Delhi's COVID-19 count continues to increase, with the number of containment zones also rapidly rising, what the Delhi government has...
A curious pattern: India's COVID-19 data puzzle
19 April 2020 6:50 PM ISTNew Delhi: Something very interesting happened on Saturday when the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) released its daily bulletin on the total...
Resilient? No, hungry
18 April 2020 9:45 PM ISTWhy is it that the Indian middle-class and elite are okay in the belief that our poor are resilient? Maybe we have mistaken their patience for...
Deep into community transmission, MP to start screening SARI, ILI patients outside hotspot areas
18 April 2020 12:42 AM ISTNew Delhi: With a quickly rising COVID-19 count and one of the highest case fatality rates in its commercial hub city of Indore, the government of...
Complete lockdown; stranded tourists; six +ve cases and aggressive testing in Tirupati
14 April 2020 11:07 PM ISTNew Delhi/Tirupati: The temple town of Tirupati has now gone under complete lockdown, with no official lines for the supply of essential commodities...
ICMR recommends strategy to ration test kits
13 April 2020 11:40 PM ISTNew Delhi: As the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare continued to insist that India had an adequate supply of test kits, the Indian Council of...
First batch yet to arrive; ICMR invites bids for another 45L antibody test kits
13 April 2020 12:05 AM ISTNew Delhi: As India's efforts to ramp up testing numbers continue to be marred by a lack of sufficient test kits, the Indian Council of Medical...
Cases in city cross 1,000 mark, toll mounts to 19
12 April 2020 12:30 AM ISTNew Delhi: As Delhi's COVID-19-count breached the 1,000-mark on Saturday, official data provided by the health department of the Delhi government...
Unknown epidemiological links and a health dept practically out of commission as cases keep soaring
11 April 2020 10:49 PM ISTNew Delhi: Running helter-skelter trying to contain the COVID-19 epidemic without a Cabinet, a health minister or senior bureaucrats, the Shivraj...
40 COVID-19 +ve cases with unknown source of infection, finds ICMR study
11 April 2020 12:19 AM ISTNew Delhi: Forty SARI (Severe Acute Respiratory Illness) patients have tested positive for COVID-19, without a known source of infection, according to...