Covid Pandemic

Unlike SARS-CoV-2, the virus responsible for COVID-19, MERS outbreaks have been relatively contained but far more lethal, particularly in hospital settings.

Covid mock drill today: Centre to conduct nationwide exercise to check hospital readiness as cases breach 4,000-mark

Covid mock drill today: As part of the mock drill, the officials will check the arrangements regarding oxygen supply, status of essential medicines and evaluate availability of ventilators across major hospitals in the country.

There’s no back-to-normal for CEO pandemic perks

Many of the perks the C-suite got their companies to bestow on them during Covid seem to be here to stay

ASML's order book expected to benefit from AI chip boom

ASML argues that world needs older chips, as was shown by shortages during the COVID pandemic, and China is stepping in to supply them.

How the US mopped up a third of global capital flows since Covid

For all the angst over the dollar’s dominance, a run-up in US interest rates to the highest levels in decades proved a major draw for overseas investors.

It’s time scientists admitted their COVID mistakes

Some public health agencies took years to admit what had quickly become obvious: that the COVID virus was airborne. Others suggested extreme precautions, which had minimal benefits or were hard to implement. Rebuilding trust is not just about clearer, more persuasive communication but also admitting to mistakes 

Global housing outlook brightens despite pressure from higher rates: Reuters poll

House prices rose at a blistering pace across the developed world during the COVID pandemic - in some cases by more than 50% - but have fallen over the past year by modest amounts as central banks jacked up interest rates.

Go First and beyond: Is Indian aviation going the telecom way?

Historically, any airline that has suspended operations in India has never restarted.

Prepare for disease deadlier than Covid, warns WHO chief

Speaking at the assembly weeks after ending the global emergency status for the COVID-19 pandemic, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said it was time to advance negotiations on preventing the next pandemic.

Delhi reports 1515 new Covid cases, 6 deaths

With the new fatalities, the death toll from the pandemic rose to 26,595 in the national capital, while the case tally is 20,32,424.

How Abbott is bringing together groups to quickly identify viral threats in India, world

When an illness of unknown origin is identified, Abbott’s coalition partners move to sequence samples, identify if it’s a known or unknown pathogen, and when needed, alert health systems or public health agencies about these cases

China’s COVID tsunami recedes, bringing relief, grief and anxiety

Doctors who were mobilized across China to treat a rush of COVID patients say in phone interviews that the number of patients they are now seeing has fallen.

Budget Snapshots: How India’s rebound from the pandemic stacks up against the world

In the IMF’s World Economic Outlook sample of 192 countries, India ranks at 42

As China lifts pandemic border controls, mixed feelings at home and abroad

On Sunday, China fully opened its borders for the first time since the coronavirus pandemic began, welcoming visitors without strict quarantine requirements and allowing its citizens to go overseas once again just as the travel period for Lunar New Year, typically the busiest season, begins.

Tea industry facing multiple challenges in wake of Covid pandemic: Experts

According to industry experts, the fall in production had helped in higher price realisation at the auctions.

50-70% of those under 19 years globally still susceptible to SARS-CoV-2: Study

It also found that worldwide seroprevalence estimates varied from 7.3 per cent in the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic to 37.6 per cent in the fifth wave and 56.6 per cent in the sixth wave.

After 2 years of subdued festivities, Christmas celebrated with fervour across country

The festive spirit started with special midnight masses held in churches, pealing of church bells and singing of carols.

Covid concerns fail to dampen Christmas spirit, people throng markets, churches in Delhi

Christmas this year comes amid a low number of Covid cases.

Overworked doctor collapses on camera as concerns rise over China's Covid woes

Just a day after a video showing an overflowing Covid ward went viral, another similar one – of an overworked doctor collapsing – has struck social media.

Grim video from Chinese hospital sounds alarm bells amid alarming Covid spike

Dr Feigl-Ding, in the thread, also claimed that the doubling time for coronavirus infection in China “may not be days anymore.”

SMEs must embrace content marketing for driving better growth

If you are like the average SME struggling to find growth avenues ever since the demonetisation and the pandemic, it is time to embrace content marketing in a big way

'We're still in the tunnel': WHO chief says pandemic not over

He stressed, "it is still a long way off, and the tunnel is still dark, with many obstacles that could trip us up if we don't take care."

The apocalyptic vision of Zoltan Pozsar

The world is already in an economic war, says investment guru Zoltan Pozsar and that will mean economic security, rather than convenience or lower cost, will be the touchstone of policy. That is likely to mean higher inflation and lower growth

The WTO’s lonely struggle to defend global trade

What role does the organisation have in an era of fracturing multinational alliances and fears of deglobalisation?

The pandemic has wreaked havoc on the learning abilities of children

The results of the latest National Achievement Survey will help in systematically understanding the consequences of prolonged closure of schools in terms of children’s “socio-emotional and cognitive development”