Testing everyone will need a use of lot of resources and will not give us any concrete data. Testing the population that needs to be tested and which will help policymakers to make a decision is important.

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.

Ever since the outbreak of COVID-19, “advice” and theories have been circulating around social media that drinking alcohol offers protection against the novel coronavirus.

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.

What is the cytokine storm and how is it triggered when a virus (or antigen) enters the body for the first time? How does the body’s immune system work?

Coronavirus: When someone returns from outdoors, is it essential to wash their clothes? The risk of infected clothes depends on where you went.

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”.