The study covered 1,392 individuals in Delhi, in slums and unauthorised colonies, and found 9 out of 10 people reporting that their weekly incomes had fallen to zero.

Development of a vaccine is a long process that can falter at any step. There is also the issue of effectiveness — how the vaccine performs in real-life conditions against efficacy, which is performance in ideal conditions during trials.

Phase 1 trial results of the vaccine, mRNA-1273, have been found promising. A look at what the vaccine is composed of and how it works, what the trials showed, and what are the many stages that remain.

India, like many other Asian, African, and Latin American countries, has a current national BCG vaccination policy for all at birth. Countries that have terminated their policies or only recommend the vaccine for specific groups are mostly in Europe and North…

A crowd-funding campaign on GoFundMe that had been set up to help Native Americans during the COVID-19 outbreak was unexpectedly flooded with donations in early May, from people in Ireland and those with Irish surnames.

India Coronavirus (Covid-19) Cases: India has been testing more and more every day, and it is very well established that more the tests are done, higher would be cases detected.

While the resolution has been endorsed at the WHA, it remains to be seen how the probe will be carried out and to what degree of independence.

The recently decriminalised offences include administrative offences such as delays in filing CSR reports, or failure to rectify the register of members in compliance with orders from the NCLT.

The US, a founding member of the WHO as well as its biggest donor, has long exercised a strong influence over the organisation.

In Delhi, there would henceforth be no testing for the novel coronavirus in a patient who was brought dead to the hospital — and, if there were any suspicions, the last rites would be performed as per the routine Covid protocol.

Sino-Indian border dispute: Most of the clashes between the Indian and Chinese armies occur in the disputed portion of the Pangong Tso lake. As things stand, the 45 km-long western portion of the lake is under Indian control, while the rest is under China’s…

Domestic flights resume in India on Monday: Which routes will flights operate on? Are state governments in the loop on operating flights? What are the guidelines for passengers?

For both Maharashtra and Mumbai, Covid cases and death counts in April were 30 to 50 times the corresponding counts in March. The growth rates between April and the first 20 days of May, however, have been well behind the growth rates between March and April.

The launch of this platform coincides with the plans of many other global conglomerates trying to launch themselves in the Medium, Small and Micro Enterprises (MSME) segment by providing some kind of platform or training space.

One antibody, called S309, taken from a SARS survivor from 2003, has been shown in the lab to neutralise SARS-CoV-2. The results were reported in Nature this week.

In this edition of E-Xplained before a country-wide Zoom audience last week, he discussed the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on the economy, and ways to contain the damage.

Applicants to the scheme will need guarantors to help push their case before credit societies and urban and district cooperative banks that will hand out Rs 5,000 crore worth of collateral-free loans. They will also need to be aware of the penalties in case…

The WHO, a specialised agency of the United Nations responsible for international public health, is currently at the forefront of global efforts towards containing the novel coronavirus pandemic.

India Coronavirus (Covid-19) Cases: The five states with the maximum caseload -- Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu, Gujarat, Delhi, and Rajasthan -- account for over 70 per cent of all positive cases in India. In states like Himachal Pradesh and Assam, the new cases…

Dogs can screen up to 250 people per hour and can be trained to detect disease odours, which is equivalent to the dilution of one teaspoon of sugar in two Olympic-sized swimming pools.

India Domestic Flights Resume: The government has allowed airlines to resume flights from Monday albeit only with one-third of the pre-lockdown capacity.