Novel coronavirus

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Explained: ICMR Study Says Gargle as Good as Swab for COVID-19 Samples To Test

Dr Vasundhara Rangaswamy and Dr Antony Kollannur 21/08/2020

Swabbing the nasopharynx is an invasive and almost blind...

Passengers wearing masks wait in a queue at a bus terminus to board a bus, after authorities eased lockdown restrictions that were imposed to slow the spread of the coronavirus disease in Kolkata

COVID-19: Overpopulation Fears in India Have Spawned a Culture of Looking Away

Nayantara Sheoran Appleton 21/08/2020

India doesn't have an overpopulation problem – but the...

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‘Didn’t Estimate Need for Liquid Oxygen’: Minister Sudhakar K. on Shortage at KIMS

Prajwal Bhat 19/08/2020

Health authorities were briefed at 4 pm on Monday...

Wider Image: Last doctor standing: Pandemic pushes Indian hospital to brink

Suicides Among Doctors Were Too Common in India. Then the Pandemic Came.

Joel P. Joseph 19/08/2020

As India groans under the weight of COVID-19, another...

A healthcare worker checks the temperature of a resident during a medical campaign for the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) at a slum area in Mumbai

What Pune’s Sero-Survey Does and Doesn’t Tell Us About Its COVID-19 Epidemic

Murad Banaji 18/08/2020

The seroprevalence survey was carried out in five of...

Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak in Mumbai

The Dharavi Model: Was It Herd Immunity or Just Plain Luck?

Banjot Kaur 17/08/2020

"Social-distancing is a term for big city people. We...

The outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in New Delhi

The Problem With Thinking India’s COVID-19 Recovery Rate Is a Mark of Success

The Wire Staff 17/08/2020

How many people recover is related to the extent...