Multilayer masks are most effective at preventing aerosol generation, says a new study conducted by a team led by researchers at Bengaluru-based Indian Institute of Science (IISc). The study was carr...

2020 is gone, Covid-19 is not.Vaccine or no vaccine, the mask is imperative. A group comprising doctors, public health experts and people from various other walks of life came together on the last da...

Around 200 people were booked for not wearing masks on Christmas out of the teeming masses that took to the city’s streets to soak in the festive spirit. Health experts and doctors said the fig...

Driving a car or bike without a mask in the steel city during the remaining days of the year will mean that the offender will have to spend eight hours in a camp jail. That is not all. Jamshedpur pol...

Exercising during the pandemic has been challenging for many of us. Gyms have closed or limited occupancy, as have parks, pools, pathways and other recreational facilities. If trails are open, they of...

Year 2020 often feels less real and more like a movie. From being confined home for weeks to sanitising everything from yourself to the  packet of bread brought from the market, from not seeing f...

How to make people wear masks? The state government and public health experts involved in Covid-19 management in Bengal has no answer yet to the question. A large number of people without masks in pu...

Nearly half the people of North 24-Parganas are not wearing masks and that could result in a spurt in Covid-19 cases in the district, senior health department officials warned the district administrat...

Dr Anthony S. Fauci, the US’s top infectious disease expert, said on Friday that the country should consider implementing a first-ever national mandate requiring masks, to help control a surge i...

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