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A syringe with a vaccine is seen ahead of trials by volunteers testing for the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), and taking part in the country's human clinical trial for potential vaccines at the Wits RHI Shandukani Research Centre in Johannesburg

COVID-19: As Rich Countries Call Dibs on Vaccine Doses, What Are India’s Options?

Mahesh Devnani 17/09/2020

If India decides to join COVAX – the deadline...

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As Rural India Faces COVID-19, Let’s Train Village Health Providers to Fight It

Meera Tiwari 17/09/2020

Confidence in local village informal health practitioners should be...

The coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak in Oldham

Vaccine Group Says 76 Rich Countries Now Committed to ‘COVAX’ Access Plan

Kate Kelland 04/09/2020

Wealthy countries that join COVAX will finance the vaccine purchases from...

FILE PHOTO: A pharmacist displays a box of Dexamethasone at the Erasme Hospital amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak, in Brussels

Steroids Cut Death Rates Among Critically Ill COVID-19 Patients – Major Study

Kate Kelland 02/09/2020

'Impressive as these results are, this is not a...

A man on crutches officiates as victims of polio disease sitting on rollers play the game of para-soccer in Abuja

Africa Declared Free of Wild Polio, Four Years After Last Case

Reuters 26/08/2020

Vigilance is still warranted because the virus could make...

The spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in Ghaziabad

COVID-19: When a Contagion Comes, Women Bear a Heavy Burden

Gayathri Vaidyanathan 10/08/2020

Two thirds and three quarters of infections in health...

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COVID-19: The Ways in Which We Deal With, Experience and Know the Pandemic

Jahnavi Phalkey 03/08/2020

It is hard to know what to believe –...