These hotspots, where either one or more COVID-19 cases were found or suspected patients lived, include slums, isolated buildings and housing colonies.

As per the guidelines, both cremation and burial are allowed as per the faith of the deceased. However, there are certain measures that have to be followed. Also, ‘minimum touch’ with the body has to be ensured.

Critics have said that the law could be used to silence independent media organisations, who are already struggling, and that public money would be spent on media that would follow the government line.

Coronavirus symptoms: The patients who come in with encephalopathy are confused and lethargic and may appear dazed, exhibiting strange behavior or staring off into space.

Tariq Thachil, an Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at Vanderbilt University, speaks to The Indian Express about internal and circular migrant labour in India.

Restrictions in China's Wuhan are to be lifted on April 8. How COVID-19 spreads in the province after that will have lessons for the whole world.

Daniel Pearl, aged 38, was an American journalist who worked as the South Asia bureau chief of The Wall Street Journal. He was abducted in Pakistan’s Karachi in January 2002.

“No, drinking alcohol does not protect you from coronavirus infection,” the World Health Organization make sit clear.

States have been pushing for rapid tests on plasma; ICMR has resisted, yielded and qualified its stance. How are such tests different from PCR tests on swab, and what are the arguments for and against each?

Giving a glimpse of one possible option, Prime Minister Narendra Modi told Chief Ministers during a video-conference Thursday that it is “important to formulate a common exit strategy to ensure staggered re-emergence of the population once the lockdown ends”.

While the share of the elderly in India’s population is 8.6% as per Census 2011, their share in Kerala is 12.7%.

Here's how you can make a face mask at home. While the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention currently advises against healthy people wearing masks, it is reviewing its guidance, particularly in light of a new belief that as many as 25 per cent of people…

Some cancer treatments such as chemotherapy and radiotherapy might weaken the immune system of the patient, since such treatments can stop the bone marrow from making enough white blood cells.

The study found that none of the children developed a severe illness or died due to COVID-19, which is similar to findings of SARS-CoV paediatric patients in 2002-03.

While various studies have shown that the disease has more severe consequences for those above the age of 60 years, and especially those with existing co-morbidities, some countries have also reported deaths of younger people, after catching the infection.

Generally, viruses tend to last longer on non-porous surfaces (steel, plastic etc) an for a shorter time on porous surfaces (which include clothes).

Used for ages against TB, the BCG vaccine is newly under the spotlight. One study claims a link between low COVID-19 spread and wide BCG coverage, another dismisses it. A look at BCG, and the new discussion.

India coronavirus lockdown: The Disaster Management Act protects government officers and employees from any legal process for actions they took “in good faith”.

Home-made masks might not be as effective in blocking outside particles as professional masks, but they are nonetheless better than not having a mask at all. Simple masks made of cotton cloth do keep out larger particles. And these can be washed and reused…

Government officials and health care professionals toss off mentions of mortality rates, flattening the curve and lockdowns, assuming that we know what they mean. But the terms mean different things from country to country, state to state, even city to city…

During this 9-minute lights out exercise on Sunday night, up to 10,000-15,000 MW of power demand could to drop suddenly and then come on stream a few minutes later.