Sir — It is heartening that the police and civic officials will resume visits to markets to remind traders and customers to wear masks (“Market mask policing to resume”, Aug 28). The...

The use of face masks as protection against coronavirus will become a matter of "personal choice" as the UK lifts legal lockdown measures in place later this month, a Cabinet minister said o...

Researchers at MIT and Harvard University have designed a new face mask that can diagnose if the wearer is infected with SARS-CoV-2, the virus which causes COVID-19, within 90 minutes. The mask desig...

Residents of Kuchaidanga village in Nadia district’s Hogolberia, who were allegedly lathicharged by police in a mask awareness drive, reportedly retaliated by thrashing the men in uniform and hu...

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Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong has condemned an alleged racist attack on a local woman of Indian descent after media reported she was kicked and abused for not wearing a mask, in a case that...

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Sir — It pains one to learn that the Bharatiya Janata Party candidate from Tollygunge, Babul Supriyo, questioned the mandate of the voters of Bengal after the Trinamul Congress’s landslide...

Americans who are fully vaccinated against the coronavirus no longer need to wear masks outdoors if they’re walking, running, hiking or biking alone, with members of their household, or if they ...

Political parties in parts of Bengal have started lodging complaints against rivals with Covid-positive kin in a bid to keep them off poll activities ahead of the final phase. In Birbhum, the BJP lod...