Finally, Tamil Nadu to resume contact tracing with earnestness
Aggressive testing since mid-June in hotspot areas in Chennai and the 12-day lockdown that went into effect from June 19 helped sharply reduce daily fresh cases from its peak of…
Category: World Health Organisation
Results of coronavirus vaccine trials call for cautious optimism
Never before have candidate vaccines been developed from scratch, tested on animals and completed early stages of human clinical trials all under six months. This is an acid test for…
Study finds evidence of vertical transmission of coronavirus across the placenta
While about half-a-dozen studies published have already suggested vertical transmission of novel coronavirus from the mother to child, a study now published confirms the direction of transmission as vertical and…
Exhaled breath of COVID-19 patients found to contain novel coronavirus
The study found a few patients exhaled coronavirus into the air at an estimated rate of 1000-1,00,000 RNA copies/minute. Breath emission rate was the highest during the earlier stages of…
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…
COVID-19: China’s dangerous obsession with secrecy a serious threat to global public health
Contrary to what was earlier reported, China confirmed to the WHO of the cluster of cases of ‘viral pneumonia of unknown cause’ on January 3 only after the global body…
Completion of COVID-19 vaccine trials could take at least six-nine months, says Soumya Swaminathan
A realistic (but very optimistic) timeline from the start of Phase-1 to the completion of Phase-3 could be about six to nine months (if all goes exactly according to plan),…
COVID-19: States should bite the bullet and increase testing
It is important for every State to take a leaf out of Maharashtra’s book and test large numbers each day unmindful of the rising fresh cases each day. Moving from a…
