Beyond the COVID-19 pandemic: Unanswered questions, lessons learnt and ongoing challenges
1 year, 5 months ago

Beyond the COVID-19 pandemic: Unanswered questions, lessons learnt and ongoing challenges

Firstpost  

The COVID-19 pandemic that impacted all aspects of human life, quite literally cancelled the planet. Was any internal advice given to the Government of India that the mRNA vaccines developed by Pfizer and Moderna were better, despite the fact that they were significantly more expensive and difficult to administer? Covishield, developed by Oxford-AstraZeneca in the UK, is similar to previous vaccines in that it involves injecting a subdued form of the disease into the subject– Covaxin was the product of a daring, novel strategy from the Indian Council of Medical Research, which has been dramatically depicted in the recently released Vivek Agnihotri film The Vaccine Wars. Post-disease after-effects may have arisen as a result of new viral variations, fading immunity, insufficient vaccination, immunologically impaired status brought about by other medical conditions, co-morbidities, vaccine hesitancy, the individual’s age, and so on. Our geopolitical divides were exposed as countries in the Amerisphere hoarded surpluses of expensive vaccines, refusing to sell them to poorer countries, even as Bharat generously donated its affordable home-made vaccines to small countries who simply had no way of obtaining them otherwise, at a time when great gloom had descended on the world.

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COVID-19 Lockdown: How India shut down and opened gradually to battle a pandemic
6 days, 9 hours ago

COVID-19 Lockdown: How India shut down and opened gradually to battle a pandemic

The Hindu  

“If we are not able to adhere to this lockdown sincerely for 21 days, believe me, India will go back 21 years,” warned Prime Minister Narendra Modi on March 24, 2020, as India registered 10 deaths due to the spread of Coronavirus. In a bid to give India’s healthcare system, medical professionals, sanitation workers, scientists and others time to prepare …

After Covid, is the world well prepared for another pandemic?
2 weeks, 2 days ago

After Covid, is the world well prepared for another pandemic?

Firstpost  

The world was shaken to its core when the Covid pandemic hit in 2019 killing as many as seven million people across the world. Many unscrupulous people took advantage of the Covid pandemic, selling useless remedies for the condition, such as bleach, hydroxychloroquine and ivermectin. This made it very hard to deliver serious public health messages and interventions, especially to …

After Covid, is the world well prepared for another pandemic?
2 weeks, 2 days ago

After Covid, is the world well prepared for another pandemic?

Firstpost  

The world was shaken to its core when the Covid pandemic hit in 2019 killing as many as seven million people across the world. Many unscrupulous people took advantage of the Covid pandemic, selling useless remedies for the condition, such as bleach, hydroxychloroquine and ivermectin. This made it very hard to deliver serious public health messages and interventions, especially to …

Masks off: The lessons we didn't learn from COVID
2 weeks, 5 days ago

Masks off: The lessons we didn't learn from COVID

Salon  

When the SARS-CoV-2 virus first began spreading across the globe five years ago, some predicted that it could take five years for things to recover. Even as funding for necessary health care vanishes, essential data is removed from the public eye, and programs are forbidden from focusing on where they’re most needed, ordinary people are losing faith in the system, …

What's been learned about disease monitoring from the COVID pandemic
2 weeks, 6 days ago

What's been learned about disease monitoring from the COVID pandemic

NPR  

What's been learned about disease monitoring from the COVID pandemic Are we more prepared to detect the start of a possible pandemic than we were in 2020? EMANUEL: Advances in disease surveillance are happening all over the world, including here in the U.S. Paul Friedrichs was a chief medical adviser for the military during COVID. EMANUEL: A Pew Research study …

Five years on: The countries that never locked down for Covid-19
4 weeks, 1 day ago

Five years on: The countries that never locked down for Covid-19

BBC  

Five years on: The countries that never locked down for Covid-19 2 days ago Share Save Chris Baraniuk Share Save Alamy Most of the world found itself confined to their homes in March 2020 as Covid-19 spread at a blistering pace. Alamy For billions of people around the world, the lockdown measures imposed during the early stages of the Covid-19 …

Five Years Since COVID-19: Are We Ready for the Next Global Pandemic?
1 month, 2 weeks ago

Five Years Since COVID-19: Are We Ready for the Next Global Pandemic?

The Hindu  

Published : Feb 17, 2025 17:27 IST - 6 MINS READ Five years after COVID-19 was declared a pandemic, experts worry the world has still not learnt its lessons, saying it is a question of when-not if-a deadly, new “Disease X” strikes. Scientific shorthand for an unknown or hypothetical pathogen, Disease X could cause an international epidemic or pandemic that …

India has robust system to tackle pandemics: Health Minister
1 month, 4 weeks ago

India has robust system to tackle pandemics: Health Minister

Deccan Chronicle  

New Delhi: India has a very robust system to deal with future pandemics and public health emergencies, Union Health and Family Welfare Minister JP Nadda asserted in the Rajya Sabha on Tuesday. Replying to supplementary questions in the Rajya Sabha, Nadda highlighted the steps taken by the government in the last 10 years to strengthen India's health system, especially in …

India has robust system to tackle pandemics: Health Minister
1 month, 4 weeks ago

India has robust system to tackle pandemics: Health Minister

The Hindu  

India has a very robust system to deal with future pandemics and public health emergencies, Union Health and Family Welfare Minister J.P. Nadda asserted in the Rajya Sabha on Tuesday. Replying to supplementary questions in the Rajya Sabha, Mr. Nadda highlighted the steps taken by the government in the last 10 years to strengthen India's health system, especially in the …

5 years since its first COVID-19 case, how prepared is the U.S. for the next pandemic?
2 months, 2 weeks ago

5 years since its first COVID-19 case, how prepared is the U.S. for the next pandemic?

NPR  

5 years since its first COVID-19 case, how prepared is the U.S. for the next pandemic? SCOTT SIMON, HOST: Monday marks five years since the U.S. recorded its first case of COVID-19. Unless we really spend a lot of time building the trust in public health back, we could build all the systems in the world, and they won't work. …

‘Millions could’ve been saved if Chinese were transparent’: The Seeker, Indian whistleblower, who exposed Covid-19 cover-up
2 months, 2 weeks ago

‘Millions could’ve been saved if Chinese were transparent’: The Seeker, Indian whistleblower, who exposed Covid-19 cover-up

Firstpost  

Prasenjit Ray and others at the collective DRASTIC spent months scouring the internet for evidence and analysing it to answer questions that the Chinese regime should have addressed at the onset: What is this virus? If not for the investigative work of the likes of Prasenjit Ray, better known as ‘The Seeker’ on X, the world would have never known …

Is the world ready for the next pandemic?
2 months, 3 weeks ago

Is the world ready for the next pandemic?

The Hindu  

An awkward question remains five years after Covid-19 began its deadly rampage: is the world ready to handle the next pandemic? View from the WHO Asked whether the world was better prepared for the next pandemic, WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said recently: "Yes and no". "If the next pandemic arrived today, the world would still face some of the …

Covid originated in China’s Wuhan lab? There’s now ‘smoking gun’ evidence, says Rutgers scientist Richard Ebright
2 months, 3 weeks ago

Covid originated in China’s Wuhan lab? There’s now ‘smoking gun’ evidence, says Rutgers scientist Richard Ebright

Firstpost  

Referring to research proposals by Chinese scientists and their US collaborators, and the emergence of the same kind of virus near their lab at Wuhan a year later, scientist Richard Ebright says there is now smoking gun evidence for the laboratory-origin of Covid-19 pandemic in an interview with Firstpost’s Madhur Sharma Richard Ebright, a molecular biologist at Rutgers University, is …

Parsa Venkateshwar Rao Jr | The long trauma of Covid: Lessons should be learnt
2 months, 4 weeks ago

Parsa Venkateshwar Rao Jr | The long trauma of Covid: Lessons should be learnt

Deccan Chronicle  

In November-December 2019, the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome new coronavirus, also called SARS-CoV2 or Covid-19 as named by the World Health Organisation, was coming out the shadows as the Chinese doctors noticed cases of pneumonia emerging at a rapid and large scale emerging in Wuhan. The total number of cases of infection was 770 million, and the global Covid-19 death …

There’s Still Time to Get Ahead of the Next Global Pandemic
3 months ago

There’s Still Time to Get Ahead of the Next Global Pandemic

Wired  

Public health is under pressure. Across health care systems around the world, funding is declining, exhausted professionals are leaving the field, and in the US state legislatures are pulling back needed legal authorities. The Covid-19 pandemic was extraordinarily challenging for the public health workforce, which mounted a historic pandemic response. Public health, specifically epidemiology, is beginning to reorient away from …

Pandemic preparedness: Learning from COVID-19 and Nipah to build a resilient future
3 months ago

Pandemic preparedness: Learning from COVID-19 and Nipah to build a resilient future

The Hindu  

As we observe International Epidemic Preparedness Day on December 27, India stands at a crucial juncture in its journey towards building robust health security systems. The State’s response demonstrates how local healthcare systems can effectively contain potential pandemic threats through rapid detection, systematic contact tracing, and coordinated public health measures. For India to mitigate future pandemics effectively, it must expand …

What is Disease X and why the world should prepare for it
3 months, 2 weeks ago

What is Disease X and why the world should prepare for it

The Hindu  

The story so far The recent outbreak reported in the first week of December 2024 in the Democratic Republic of Congo, which has claimed over 400 lives and remains unclassified, has raised concerns that it could be an instance of Disease X. When SARS-CoV-2 emerged as an unknown pathogen causing a global pandemic, it exemplified the scenario that Disease X …

Are we on the brink of another pandemic? Chinese researchers think so
3 months, 3 weeks ago

Are we on the brink of another pandemic? Chinese researchers think so

Firstpost  

Chinese scientists have said that a strain of a bird flu from 2021 has the potential to lead to a new pandemic Chinese researchers have said that the world could be close to having another pandemic in the near future. Even as the memories of the Covid-19 pandemic are afresh in many people’s mind, which emerged in China’s Wuhan, Chinese …

"Bad news for public health": Jay Bhattacharaya, Trump's pick to lead NIH, got COVID-19 all wrong
4 months ago

"Bad news for public health": Jay Bhattacharaya, Trump's pick to lead NIH, got COVID-19 all wrong

Salon  

By most accounts, President-elect Donald Trump bungled the federal response to COVID-19, publicly downplaying concern about a virus that he privately admitted was “deadly stuff.” “It’s going to disappear. One day — it’s like a miracle — it will disappear,” Trump said in Feb. 2020, at the same time he was admitting to journalist Bob Woodward that the virus was …

India to undertake mega study of covid-19 samples to help prepare for future pandemics
4 months, 4 weeks ago

India to undertake mega study of covid-19 samples to help prepare for future pandemics

Live Mint  

New Delhi: The Department of Biotechnology plans to undertake a study of thousands of samples and clinical material collected during covid-19 to help Indian scientists understand the susceptibility of individuals and changes in metabolic activity that will be useful in fighting future pandemics. The department will give the Indian SARS-CoV-2 Genomics Consortium, a consortium of 54 laboratories, the mandate to …

Global Pandemic Threat: 100 Days to Save Lives
5 months, 1 week ago

Global Pandemic Threat: 100 Days to Save Lives

Hindustan Times  

A modelling study suggests that if a vaccine for SARS-CoV-2 had been developed within 100 days, an estimated 8.3 million deaths could have been averted globally. The study also estimated that productivity losses due to illness amounting to almost $1.4 trillion and $63 billion of hospitalisation costs would have been averted globally.

COVID-19 infections not problematic, experts say
7 months, 2 weeks ago

COVID-19 infections not problematic, experts say

China Daily  

The number of people in China being infected with COVID-19 is fluctuating reasonably and won't be a burden on medical resources or the public, experts said. However, the National Medical Center for Infectious Diseases said the percentage of people catching flu and testing positive for COVID-19 rose from 8.9 percent in early July to 18.7 percent late last month. "COVID-19 …

World Health Organization updates list of infectious pathogens with pandemic potential
7 months, 3 weeks ago

World Health Organization updates list of infectious pathogens with pandemic potential

Salon  

Another pandemic like COVID-19 is all but guaranteed, according to public health experts. Whether it happens next year or a decade from now, these massive public health emergencies naturally happen on a regular basis, especially as our world gets hotter from climate change and more viruses and other pathogens spill over from our diminishing wilderness. The World Health Organization keeps …

World Health Organization reveals 30 pathogens most likely to trigger next pandemic
7 months, 3 weeks ago

World Health Organization reveals 30 pathogens most likely to trigger next pandemic

Daily Mail  

The World Health Organization has revealed its list of more than 30 pathogens that are most likely to cause the next pandemic. The scientists also added smallpox even though it is currently eradicated, fearing it could be accidentally released in a lab accident and then spread quickly because few people now have immunity against the virus. The list was updated …

Has the next pandemic already started?
8 months, 1 week ago

Has the next pandemic already started?

Al Jazeera  

New cases of avian flu are raising alarm of a possible new pandemic. It is crucial to avoid repeating mistakes from the COVID-19 pandemic, especially when dealing with H5N1, where the risks could be even greater due to its high mortality rate. Tests should be made available worldwide – including in low- and middle-income countries – and prioritised in populations …

Centre rejects study claiming 11.9 lakh excess deaths in India during 2020 COVID-19 pandemic
8 months, 1 week ago

Centre rejects study claiming 11.9 lakh excess deaths in India during 2020 COVID-19 pandemic

The Hindu  

The Union Health Ministry has rubbished reports highlighting a higher number of deaths in 2020, during the COVID-19 pandemic in India. “It is strongly asserted that an excess mortality of about 11.9 lakh deaths reported in the Science Advances paper in 2020 over the previous year is a gross and misleading overestimate. In a statement issued on Saturday, the Ministry …

Study estimates 11.9 lakh excess deaths in 2020 during pandemic, 8 times more than official
8 months, 1 week ago

Study estimates 11.9 lakh excess deaths in 2020 during pandemic, 8 times more than official

Hindustan Times  

New Delhi, In India, 11.9 lakh excess deaths occurred in 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic, 17 per cent higher compared to 2019, an international study has found. Study estimates 11.9 lakh excess deaths in 2020 during pandemic, 8 times more than official The estimate is about eight times higher than the official COVID-19 deaths in India, and 1.5 times the …

India’s hidden COVID deaths: Was the toll in 2020 eight times higher?
8 months, 1 week ago

India’s hidden COVID deaths: Was the toll in 2020 eight times higher?

Al Jazeera  

India had nearly 1.2 million excess deaths in 2020, new data shows. New Delhi, India – India’s actual death toll during the first phase of the COVID-19 pandemic that ravaged the world’s most populous country could be eight times higher than the government’s official numbers, reveals a new study. The numbers in the research, based on the Indian government’s 2019-21 …

Government’s ‘fatal strategic flaws’ in Covid planning led to avoidable deaths and economic pain
8 months, 2 weeks ago

Government’s ‘fatal strategic flaws’ in Covid planning led to avoidable deaths and economic pain

The Independent  

Mass deaths and economic pain during the Covid-19 pandemic were driven by “fatal flaws” in planning by the government, civil servants and scientists who prepared for the “wrong pandemic”, a public inquiry has found. The UK Covid-19 Inquiry, chaired by Heather Hallett, published its first report on Thursday, focusing on the UK’s pandemic “preparedness and resilience”. The 217-page report said …

Inquiry finds Britain was ill-prepared for COVID-19 pandemic and failed its citizens
8 months, 2 weeks ago

Inquiry finds Britain was ill-prepared for COVID-19 pandemic and failed its citizens

Associated Press  

LONDON — The U.K. government was ill-prepared for the COVID-19 pandemic and serious errors in planning failed its citizens, an inquiry found Thursday. “In reality, the U.K. was ill-prepared for dealing with the whole-system civil emergency of a pandemic, let alone the coronavirus pandemic that actually struck.” The COVID-19 pandemic has been blamed for more than 235,000 deaths in the …

Superbugs vs Covid-19: Comparing scale and severity of global health threats, preparing for next health catastrophe
9 months, 1 week ago

Superbugs vs Covid-19: Comparing scale and severity of global health threats, preparing for next health catastrophe

Hindustan Times  

The rise of drug-resistant superbugs presents a grave threat to global health that could surpass the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic. Superbugs vs Covid-19: Comparing scale and severity of global health threats, preparing for next health catastrophe Comparative Impact: Superbugs vs Covid-19 In an interview with HT Lifestyle, Dr Shuchin Bajaj, Founder and Director at Ujala Cygnus Group of Hospitals, …

Despite its ‘nothingburger’ reputation, COVID-19 remains deadlier than the flu
10 months, 2 weeks ago

Despite its ‘nothingburger’ reputation, COVID-19 remains deadlier than the flu

LA Times  

Since the earliest days of the pandemic, health officials have gauged the threat of COVID-19 by comparing it to the flu. Immunity from vaccines and past coronavirus infections has helped tame COVID-19 to the point that when researchers compared the mortality rates of hospitalized COVID-19 and seasonal influenza patients during the height of the 2022-23 flu season, they found that …

Countries struggle to draft ‘pandemic treaty’ to avoid mistakes made during COVID
10 months, 3 weeks ago

Countries struggle to draft ‘pandemic treaty’ to avoid mistakes made during COVID

LA Times  

A worker takes fingerprints from the body of a COVID-19 victim early in the pandemic at a crematorium in Santiago, Chile. Britain’s department of health said it would only agree to an accord if it was “firmly in the U.K. national interest and respects national sovereignty.” And many developing countries say it’s unfair that they might be expected to provide …

COVID-19 vaccines: Much ado about known unknowns
10 months, 3 weeks ago

COVID-19 vaccines: Much ado about known unknowns

The Hindu  

There are things we know that we don’t know. This risk was identified and flagged back in 2021; packaging was modified to insert information associated with the side effects; even the WHO wrote about it first in May 2021 and then in 2023.Read Bindu Shajan Perapaddan’s report on the rare vaccine side-effect is “no secret” and they are “well aware …

Biden administration partners with 50 countries to stifle future pandemics
11 months, 2 weeks ago

Biden administration partners with 50 countries to stifle future pandemics

LA Times  

President Biden’s administration is launching a program that will help 50 countries, most of them in Africa and Asia, identify and respond to infectious diseases. President Biden’s administration will help 50 countries identify and respond to infectious diseases, with the goal of preventing pandemics like the COVID-19 outbreak that suddenly halted normal life around the globe in 2020. The Global …

COVID-19 in India | What is the current scenario and how are we tackling it?
11 months, 3 weeks ago

COVID-19 in India | What is the current scenario and how are we tackling it?

The Hindu  

Story so far: During this poll season, mentions of the COVID-19 pandemic are still doing the rounds. History of COVID-19 lockdown As COVID-19 cases – which were first reported in China’s Wuhan province – began cropping up across the world, countries employed different approaches to deal with the rise in infections, deaths and threat due to the virus, employing varying …

COVID-19 second-leading cause of death globally in 2021; slashed life expectancy: Lancet study
11 months, 4 weeks ago

COVID-19 second-leading cause of death globally in 2021; slashed life expectancy: Lancet study

The Hindu  

COVID-19 replaced stroke to become the second-leading cause of death globally in 2021, causing 94 deaths per one lakh population and slashing life expectancy by 1.6 years, an international research published in The Lancet journal has found. “Disrupting more than three decades of consistent improvements in life expectancy and deaths, COVID-19 reversed this long-standing progress to emerge as “one of …

After four years of pandemic, Covid virus to be seasonal flu in young population
1 year ago

After four years of pandemic, Covid virus to be seasonal flu in young population

Hindustan Times  

Monday marks four years since the World Health Organisation declared Covid-19 a pandemic. With the availability of Covid-19 vaccines and medicines, the virus will become much like a regular flu or seasonal infection in the younger population. Health experts claimed that the SARS-CoV-2 infection will now be much like a regular flu, respiratory syncytial virus and other seasonal infections in …

Undiagnosed diabetes contributed substantially to COVID-19 hospitalisation and deaths in many LMICs, including India: study
1 year ago

Undiagnosed diabetes contributed substantially to COVID-19 hospitalisation and deaths in many LMICs, including India: study

The Hindu  

Undiagnosed diabetes contributed substantially to COVID-19 hospitalisations and deaths in many low- and middle-income countries, including India, a new study published in the medical journal The Lancet said. According to the study, while it is seen that patients with COVID-19 that had diagnosed chronic diseases — including diabetes — may experience higher rates of hospitalisation and mortality relative to the …

What is Disease X and how will pandemic preparations help the world?
1 year, 2 months ago

What is Disease X and how will pandemic preparations help the world?

Al Jazeera  

WHO Director-General Tedros joined world leaders at the Davos summit to discuss strategies for the next potential pandemic. At the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, a panel of health industry leaders discussed the importance of preplanning for the outbreak of a hypothetical “Disease X”. Labelling this potential threat as “Disease X” is meant to prioritise preparations for dealing with …

India logs 375 new COVID-19 cases
1 year, 2 months ago

India logs 375 new COVID-19 cases

The Hindu  

India recorded 375 new cases of the COVID-19 coronavirus, while the number of active infections has declined to 3,075, the Health Ministry said on Sunday. After December 5, a maximum of a single-day rise of 841 new cases was reported on December 31, 2023 which is 0.2% of the peak cases reported in May 2021, official sources said. "The currently …

Covid-19: India reports 441 fresh JN.1 cases; active caseload declines to 3,238
1 year, 2 months ago

Covid-19: India reports 441 fresh JN.1 cases; active caseload declines to 3,238

Firstpost  

India has recorded 441 fresh COVID-19 infections while the number of active cases has come down to 3,238, the Union health ministry said on Saturday. The number of daily cases was in double digits till December 5 but it began to rise again amid cold weather conditions and after the emergence of a new COVID-19 variant, JN.1.After December 5, the …

India Records 514 New COVID-19 Cases, Active Cases Drop
1 year, 2 months ago

India Records 514 New COVID-19 Cases, Active Cases Drop

Deccan Chronicle  

Hyderabad: India reported 514 new cases of COVID-19, with the number of active cases decreasing to 3,422, as per the health ministry's update on Thursday. The decline in daily cases persisted until December 5, 2023, when a new sub-variant, JN.1, and cold weather conditions contributed to a resurgence in cases. Following December 5, the maximum single-day rise was 841 new …

Nearly 10,000 COVID deaths reported globally last month, fueled by holiday gatherings and new variant
1 year, 2 months ago

Nearly 10,000 COVID deaths reported globally last month, fueled by holiday gatherings and new variant

LA Times  

Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the director-general of the World Health Organization, speaks at a news conference in Geneva last year. The head of the World Health Organization said Wednesday that holiday gatherings and the spread of the most prominent coronavirus variant globally led to increased transmission of COVID-19 last month. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said nearly 10,000 deaths were reported in December, …

Nearly 10,000 died from COVID-19 last month, fueled by holiday gatherings and new variant, WHO says
1 year, 2 months ago

Nearly 10,000 died from COVID-19 last month, fueled by holiday gatherings and new variant, WHO says

Associated Press  

GENEVA — The head of the U.N. health agency said Wednesday holiday gatherings and the spread of the most prominent variant globally led to increased transmission of COVID-19 last month. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said nearly 10,000 deaths were reported in December, while hospital admissions during the month jumped 42% in nearly 50 countries — mostly in Europe and the Americas …

India logs 774 new Covid-19 cases, 2 deaths, 619 JN.1 infections so far
1 year, 2 months ago

India logs 774 new Covid-19 cases, 2 deaths, 619 JN.1 infections so far

India Today  

India reported 774 new Covid-19 cases and two deaths, while the active caseload further dipped to 4,187 from 4,334 the previous day, the Union Health Ministry said on Saturday. After December 5, the highest single-day rise of 841 cases was reported on December 31, 2023, which was 0.2 per cent of the peak cases reported in May 2021, official sources …

Covid-19: India Logs 760 Fresh Cases, Active Caseload Stands At 4,423
1 year, 2 months ago

Covid-19: India Logs 760 Fresh Cases, Active Caseload Stands At 4,423

ABP News  

Covid 19 India: India saw a single-day rise of 760 fresh cases of Covid while two more people succumbed to the viral disease, news agency PTI reported, citing health ministry data on Thursday. On Wednesday, the country had reported 602 new Covid cases and five deaths were reported. Meanwhile, a 63-year-old woman, who had tested positive for Covid, succumbed to …

India sees single-day rise of 702 COVID-19 cases
1 year, 3 months ago

India sees single-day rise of 702 COVID-19 cases

The Hindu  

India saw a single day rise of 702 cases of COVID-19, with the number of active cases of the infection rising to 4,097, the health ministry said on Thursday, December 28, 2023. Six new fatalities, two from Maharashtra and one each from Karnataka, Kerala, West Bengal, and Delhi were reported in a span of 24 hours, according to the Union …

Keeping the hope for health alive
1 year, 3 months ago

Keeping the hope for health alive

Al Jazeera  

As we close a year of milestones and challenges in global public health, our quest to achieve ‘Health for All’ continues. Heads of state at the United Nations General Assembly committed to advancing universal health coverage, ending tuberculosis and protecting the world from future pandemics. And as WHO closes out our 75th year as the “world’s” health organisation, I extend …

New Blueprint for Pandemic Preparedness in Place: Dr Bhargava
1 year, 3 months ago

New Blueprint for Pandemic Preparedness in Place: Dr Bhargava

Deccan Chronicle  

Hyderabad: The Government of India has prepared a blueprint for pandemic preparedness that includes lessons learnt in combating Covid-19 in the country, former ICMR director general Dr Balram Bhargava said. There were learnings, there were a lot of mistakes and we learnt from them,” Dr Bhargava said at a press conference on Wednesday, replying to a question on whether ‘red …

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