What makes the elderly especially vulnerable to the virus? James Diaz, a professor at Louisiana State University’s School of Public Health, has hypothesised that the reason could lie in the victims’ medications.

Hantavirus Symptoms: Cases of the hantavirus in humans occur mostly in rural areas where forests, fields and farms offer suitable habitat for infected rodents.

From India going into total lockdown to the Taliban saying they will cooperate with the Afghanistan government, here is how the Southeast Asian countries are coping.

Contact tracing is not a novel concept and has been used as a method to track cases of the Ebola virus in Africa.

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Tokyo Olympics cancelled: The Summer Games make up the world’s largest sporting event, a multibillion-dollar endeavor that every four years brings together thousands of athletes from hundreds of countries.

High population density, air travel from epicenter Wuhan, and a public transport system used by millions. These factors may have led to a high infection rate in New York City

"The key takeaway from this experience is the urgent need to build our public health infrastructure — personnel trained in public health, standardization of responses to disease outbreaks, and building systems that keep a vigilant eye on infectious diseases…

The package to combat coronavirus is the largest in modern US history, and includes direct payments and unemployment benefits to individuals and financial support for states, hospitals and businesses.

The quickest way to assess immunity is a blood test that looks for protective antibodies in the blood of people who have recovered. But first you have to have the test.

FM Nirmala Sitharaman said the package will cost the national exchequer Rs 1.7 lakh crore, which is 0.8 per cent of India’s estimated gross domestic product in the current financial year (about Rs 204 lakh crore).

For poor households and small businesses, today’s crisis is a crisis of liquidity. The nationwide lockdown has cost daily wage workers and informal sector entrepreneurs their opportunity to earn. To what extent can the government’s package alleviate their…

It is definitely true that many of the world’s most significant and successful universal health coverage reforms have followed, and been a consequence of major crises.

The central government’s package, as it is, comes a week after Kerala first announced a Rs 20,000-crore support for its people. Many states including Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Punjab, Telangana and Rajasthan followed suit.

Without 'draconian measures'. the coronavirus could infect nearly 60,000 people by mid-May, shows projection

RBI Governor Shaktikanta Das said the growth outlook will depend on the intensity, speed and duration of the coronavirus pandemic, but indicated the growth projections for the year was at risk.

Viral infections are mainly identified by two kinds of tests– genetic and serological. Genetic tests can identify infections that are active, but cannot be used to detect past infections.

RBI allows banks to give relief to borrowers of all loans; final call with banks

An editorial in Lancet highlighted the importance of healthcare workers amid the coronavirus pandemic, calling them “every country’s most valuable resource”.

A look at what the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare has said about the logistics of setting up isolation wards.

Only one in six people get seriously ill, when the disease develops further and features pneumonia.