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Category: Testing

Posted on January 1, 2022

India should prepare for the worst with Omicron

The World Health Organization said the number of COVID-19 cases recorded globally shot up by 11% last week (December 20-26) compared with the previous week, while the number of new…

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Posted on December 19, 2021December 22, 2021

Is the current testing, sequencing strategy missing Omicron cases in India?

A November 30, 2021 circular from the health ministry clearly mentions that effective December 1, all passengers arriving from specified “at-risk” countries will be required to undergo an RTR-PCR test…

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Posted on September 11, 2021

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…

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Posted on July 19, 2021

Waving testing requirement for the fully vaccinated is an ill-considered decision: Giridhara Babu

In an email, Dr. Giridhara Babu, Epidemiologist at the Public Health Foundation of India, Bengaluru explains why doing away with RT-PCR testing is not correct and how it could endanger…

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Posted on July 19, 2021July 19, 2021

Can some States serve as a bellwether for the third wave in India?

Considering that Kerala and Maharashtra have shown high integrity in testing and reporting cases, should a sustained spike in daily cases in these two States serve as a bellwether of…

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Posted on June 19, 2021June 20, 2021

Do excess deaths in four States suggest COVID-19 mortality has crossed one million in India?

Against a daily tally of over 4,000 deaths in May this year, The Economist estimated between 6,000 and 31,000 excess deaths per day. The Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation…

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Posted on April 26, 2021

Can vaccination of all adults slow down the second wave?

While Maharashtra is still reporting the most cases daily, there has been a slip dip in the last few days. It is a bit early to say if the second…

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Posted on April 24, 2021April 24, 2021

India will have 8-10 lakh cases a day when second wave peaks in mid-May, says Bhramar Mukherjee

Since April 1, the number of daily cases has been accelerating at a rapid speed. Can it be any reason other than more infectious variants? We have to be cautious…

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