A paradoxical rise in Kerala’s Covid-19 mortality rate despite a shrinking epidemic ahead of omicron’s emergence reflects diligent death auditing under political pressure, public demand an...

The Jamiat Ulama-i-Hind has urged the Supreme Court to list for early hearing its petition seeking directions to curb hate speech and alleged communalisation of incidents in the context of the ensuing...

The resurgence of India’s Covid-19 epidemic and its spread into small towns may challenge the efforts to hold down the death rate, which is now 0.6 per cent or almost a third of the value during...

Data from the Union health ministry have also shown a decline in positivity — the proportion of positive cases among those tested — from 10 per cent in early July to 7.72 per cent in mid-A...

Critical-care specialist Srinivas Samavedam is engaged in what he calls a life-or-death “chess battle” with Covid-19, monitoring every move the coronavirus makes to plan timely countermove...

The total number of recoveries among Covid-19 patients in India has jumped to 13,28,336, pushing the recovery rate to 67.62 per cent on Thursday, while the case fatality rate (CFR) has further dropped...

India on Friday recorded 55,078 new coronavirus infections, a fresh highest-ever single-day increase, but the proportions of its patients who require oxygen, intensive care or ventilator support have ...

The case fatality rates among Covid-19 patients, a measure used by the Union health ministry to suggest India has among the lowest mortality rates in the world, is not a good measure for geographical ...