Coronavirus

COVID-19: India's active caseload breaches 4,000-mark after 628 fresh cases reported

The case fatality rate stands at 1.19 per cent. According to the ministry website, 220.67 crore Covid vaccine doses have been administered.

COVID-19 cases on upswing, JN.1 subvariant in focus; what we know so far

There are currently 2,311 active COVID-19 cases in India, as per the health ministry data. So far, 21 cases linked to the contagious JN.1 subvariant have been detected.

Women’s entry into labour force rises post-COVID. But is it all good?

While a majority of the women had to settle for low-paying agriculture jobs or work without pay in household enterprises, there have been some bright spots too — 86 percent of net new hiring in the manufacturing sector are females while men join construction

The pandemic is over but our mental stress isn’t

Humans have finite mental resources, and they’ve been decidedly depleted by years of dealing with Covid and its fallout, plus economic woes and worries about geopolitical upheaval

The news is depressing — but data can help us

COVID, the Ukraine war and climate chaos make for anxious reading, so maybe it’s time to go back to numbers

Want to unravel some big COVID mysteries? Check the wastewater

By sifting through sewage, scientists can study unusual cases and even the origin of the virus

Nobel for mRNA vaccine shows power of perseverance

The Covid-19 shots that seemed to appear overnight built on decades of work by Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman

Long COVID is real. Now the evidence is piling up

A new study, led by the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and the Yale School of Medicine and published in Nature, defines some critical differences in certain biomarkers of people with long COVID. The next step is even more critical: coming up with a way to cure them

‘There is no work to balance’: how shrinking budgets, COVID and AI shook up life in management consulting

The profession built to help others weather disruption benefited from a rush of demand during the COVID-19 pandemic and expanded accordingly. But that has come to an abrupt end...

Superbugs: why it’s so hard to stop the ‘silent pandemic’

Antimicrobial resistance already kills millions and is projected to get worse. But there is little incentive for Big Pharma to tackle the issue

WHO, US health authorities tracking new COVID-19 variant; 'impact unknown'

The WHO classified the new variant as one under surveillance "due to the large number (more than 30) of spike gene mutations it carries"

Why China is flirting with deflation as the west battles rising prices

Beijing’s policymakers fear low investment and consumer spending will hamper the economy’s post-COVID recovery

India records 49 new Covid infections, count of active cases now 1,463

The national COVID-19 recovery rate is at 98.81 per cent and the number of people who have recuperated from the disease has surged to 4,44,61,168, the data showed.