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The world is eager to come out of lockdown. But if countries simply return to business as usual, new outbreaks of Covid-19 will follow. The only solution that public health experts see is to keep care...

A few days ago, a post on Facebook caught my eye. A relative of a doctor somewhere in New Jersey, US, had urged currently healthy survivors of Covid-19 to help the doctor, who is on a ventilator and f...

The Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) is planning to study whether the novel coronavirus strain in India has undergone mutation while spreading within the country over the last two months.Acco...

Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati (IITG) on Wednesday said it has joined hands with Ahmedabad-based Hester Biosciences to develop a vaccine for Covid-19 and animal trials are likely to start by ...

Students at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) have developed low-cost intubation boxes for dealing with Covid-19 patients facing breathing issues and requiring assistance in the form of endotra...

Two Indian scientists have identified what appears to be the reigning queen among the novel coronaviruses, a type called “A2a” that is fast replacing the other strains of the virus in all geograph...

Arun Ghosh is the Ian P. Rothwell Distinguished Professor for organic and medicinal chemistry at Purdue University, US, and specialises in drug design. He discovered the drug darunavir, the frontline ...

The Centre should loosen its control and give states more autonomy over funding and decision-making on the Covid-19 pandemic, The Lancet, a top international medical journal, said on Saturday in a com...

Covid is an orphan virus and is using one strategy till such time comes when human beings, its only target so far, acquire an immune response strong enough to repel or keep it at bay.It has united a d...

A bacterium discovered by an Indian scientist more than four decades ago and used in treating leprosy for nearly 20 years will now be offered to Covid-19 patients in India under a controlled clinical ...