Bhilwara in Rajasthan was one of the early hotspots of the COVID-19 outbreak. The government responded with extraordinarily aggressive measures — and the ‘Bilwara model’ could now be replicated elsewhere in the country.

After the lockdown, what kind of manufacturing can be allowed to minimise risk of COVID-19 spread? Rather than insisting on ‘essential goods’ only, the key lies in which factories can enforce social distancing.

The fabric of your homemade mask must be dense enough to capture viral particles, but also breathable enough.

The temperature in several parts of India has crossed 30°C and is expected to touch 40°C in the northern regions in the next two weeks. What will it mean to the survival of the novel coronavirus?

Four-year-old Nadia is believed to have caught the virus from a zoo employee, who had not shown symptoms.

Apart from condoms, the supply of contraceptive drugs is also expected to be affected due to the coronavirus, as pharmaceutical sector giants India and China have been forced to shut factories.

Coronabonds: Nine of the 19 countries that use the single currency called on March 25 for a common debt instrument issued by a European institution to fight the coronavirus outbreak and its effects.

Healthcare workers must take precautions to ensure they are not infected with COVID-19, and they do not pass the virus from one patient to another.

Conspiracy theorists appear to have successfully peddled the idea that the next-gen of mobile networks are in some ways responsible for the disease.

Dominic Raab, the 46-year-old foreign secretary, also has the title of “first secretary of state,” making him Johnson’s deputy. He’s a blunt former lawyer who has been both an ally and rival to Johnson.

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…

Hydroxychloroquine is under global spotlight, but how effective is it known to be against COVID-19? Who else use it? How is India, which eased an export ban after Donald Trump grumbled, coping with demand at home?

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”.