It is an antimalarial drug option, considered less toxic than chloroquine, and prescribed in certain cases.

Some may eat too little, some too much, and it is quite likely that people stuck home would snack more and eat less at meals, if not skip them.

Once the virus enters the body, it can cause discomfort when it reaches the air passages on the outside of the lungs.

Dr K Leelamoni is a former Head of Department of Community Medicine at the Government Medical College in Kozhikode and Thiruvananthapuram, and later at the Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences in Kochi. She has worked in the field of community medicine for…

It is an antimalarial drug option, considered less toxic than chloroquine, and prescribed in certain cases.

Some may eat too little, some too much, and it is quite likely that people stuck home would snack more and eat less at meals, if not skip them.

Once the virus enters the body, it can cause discomfort when it reaches the air passages on the outside of the lungs.

A total of 31 countries, including Suriname, Granada, Venezuela, and Nicaragua are currently collaborating with Cuban health workers to tackle the coronavirus pandemic.

CFR may be used to determine the severity and prognosis of a disease. But in case of the current pandemic, CFR may not be a completely reliable method as the total number of COVID-19 cases counted depends on how aggressively countries are testing.

Some of the AI-based approaches to deal with the current pandemic include the COVID-19 Open Research Dataset (CORD-19), which is a free resource of the research that is being done on COVID-19.

At present, the United States is the World Health Organization's biggest contributor, making up 14.67 per cent of total funding.

Scientists using computer models to measure the spread of an infectious disease say they are yet to notice a “flattening of the growth curve”.

India is talking about the recent spurt in cases, but how sharp has it been? Data from day to day, plotted in these graphs, show how and when the growth changed from occasional to a trickle to exponential.

Coronavirus: The mathematical figure ‘R0’ indicates how fast an infection is spreading.

Children infected with the coronavirus show milder symptoms, a faster recovery, shorter “detoxification time” and a good prognosis as compared to adults, researchers in China have found.

More important than determining who has gotten the disease is determining who is giving it to others. Are people without symptoms transmitting the virus?

While there are 83.4 nurses per 10,000 population in the Americas, there are 8.7 nurses per 10,000 population in the African region.

How does one clean the face cover? The advisory recommends three possible ways.

The sealing of COVID-19 hotspots is part of the government’s larger plan to contain the spread. A look at the approach laid down, stage by stage, and what is recommended on hospitalisation and treatment.

The idea is to create smaller, less congested markets in urban areas with the participation of farmers’ groups and Farmer Producer Companies (FPCs), so that growers of vegetables and fruit have direct access to consumers.

Providing aid to civil authorities, as and when called upon to do so, is a secondary task for the armed forces. It cannot replace the primary role of ensuring external security and operational preparedness.