In Focus

COVID continues to kill: 8,85,000 new cases 4,900 deaths in 28 days

July 7, 2023

The European Region had the highest proportion of countries reporting data on new hospitalizations, followed by the South-East Asia Region The World Health...

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‘I was anxious to have to travel

July 1, 2022

I still don’t know from where I caught the virus – it might have been the exam centre or, perhaps, the hotel we were staying in. By a disconcerted...

In Conversation

WHO: 14.9m Covid-19 deaths in the world, 4.74m in India

May 6, 2022

India objects to “the use of mathematical models for projecting excess mortality estimates in view of the availability of authentic data.” New estimates from...

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3 reasons why India could be underreporting COVID-19 deaths

May 6, 2021

When it comes to COVID-19 deaths, the ground reality in India’s second wave seems far worse from what is captured by official statistics. We explain three...

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In Focus

Managing the Pandemic, digitally

February 18, 2021

If backed by privacy measures and integrated into health systems effectively, digital contact tracing apps can lead to a substantial reduction in transmission...

Speakers on Misinformation in Medicine Summit to discuss the learnings from COVID-19

In Focus

COVID-19 from the frontlines of global public health

November 28, 2020

The year 2020 has been an extremely tough year. The enormity of the COVID-19 pandemic has halted life as we knew it and has killed more than 1 million people...

In Focus

Missing COVID-19 deaths in India

June 11, 2020

While data from the Health Ministry of India suggest that the national recovery rate has reached 92% and the case fatality rate is down to 1·49%, experts have...