Virus rages in Europe as epicentre shifts
The continent reported nearly two million new cases last week, the highest since the pandemic began, and more than half of the global COVID-19 deaths this month were in Europe.…
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Why countries have abandoned the ‘Zero Covid’ strategy
In an email, epidemiologist Dr. Giridhara Babu from Bengaluru’s Public Health Foundation of India explains why the Zero COVID strategy is impractical and difficult to sustain and tells what could…
‘We need to stay prepared for multiple waves and variants’
With the alpha (B.1.1.7) and delta (B.1.617.2) variants widely present across the country, and the possibility of new variants with higher transmissive ability getting imported or emerging in India cannot…
Can the lockdown in England control new variant spread?
As on December 4, U.K has reported 2.7 million cases and over 75,500 deaths, the second highest death toll in Europe. There have been more than 50,000 new SARS-CoV-2 cases…
Emergence of a new coronavirus variant raises concerns
On Saturday, the UK imposed strict restrictions in greater London and much of the southeast of England to stop the spread of the variant, which has become one of the dominant…
COVID-19 death is a wake-up call to improve surveillance in the area: Giridhara Babu
Increase in testing alone cannot explain an increase in the number of cases during the lockdown. It is also possible that the surveillance systems in some States might have missed…
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