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Category: Pandemic

Posted on October 23, 2020

Cannot emphatically say India has passed the COVID-19 peak

In a conversation, Dr. Gautam Menon, Professor of Physics and Biology at Ashoka University and co-author of COVID-19 modelling studies, and Dr. Giridhara R. Babu, Professor of Epidemiology at the…

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Posted on October 17, 2020October 17, 2020

Pandemic causes 25% dip in TB notifications in India

While India accounts for 26% of TB cases in the world, the TB notifications during the period January-June 2020 in India reduced by 25% compared to the same period in…

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Posted on July 10, 2020July 10, 2020

U.S. withdrawal from WHO is a lose-lose proposition for all

The capricious decision to withdraw from WHO will have dire consequences for global public health. The departure of the U.S. will be a significant blow to the WHO in terms…

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Posted on April 29, 2020April 29, 2020

Can we rely on natural herd immunity to end COVID-19 pandemic?

All previous influenza pandemics — 1918 Spanish flu, 1957 Asian flu, 1968 Hong Kong influenza, and 2009 H1N1 — came to an end when herd immunity acquired naturally reached a…

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Posted on April 16, 2020April 16, 2020

Coronavirus: U.S. halting funding for WHO will have disastrous consequences

Faulting the WHO for imaginary failings cannot help Mr. Trump wash his hands of many administrative failures in containing the epidemic. Moving beyond blaming and actually withholding WHO funding can…

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Posted on April 10, 2020April 10, 2020

Coronavirus: Trump finds a scapegoat in WHO

After blaming coronavirus as democrats’ new hoax, and calling the microbe as “China virus”, WHO has now become Mr. Trump’s latest scapegoat for all the failures of his administration in…

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Posted on April 2, 2020April 11, 2020

War against coronavirus should not acquire a religious colour

The large religious congregation held in mid-March by Tablighi Jamaat Nizamuddin in Delhi has turned into a large cluster of novel coronavirus. The organisers should have been aware how their…

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Posted on March 23, 2020March 23, 2020

China reports zero cases on three days, is it just a blip?

China had zero cases on March 18-20, but one local transmission on March 21. The turnaround in China comes at a time when the virus is galloping in Europe and…

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