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How Goa Pushed COVID-19 Back
On April 20, 2020, Goa discharged its seventh and last COVID-19 patient, making it India’s first state with zero active...
COVID-19: WHO to push for equity in health-tech access
The World Health Organization (WHO) has launched an Access to COVID-19 Tools (ACT) Accelerator in collaboration with...
Where COVID-19 cases are declining, or resurging
After reporting no new cases for 8 days, Andaman and Nicobar islands reported 16 new cases in the last eight days with...
Rate of positive samples spikes in Gujarat
In Gujarat, the percentage of samples testing positive has nearly doubled from 4% to 7.9% in the last 11 days, an...
COVID-19: ‘Indebtedness, Hunger May Push West Bengal’s Denotified Tribes Into Bonded Labour’
New Delhi: On March 19, 2020, Lakhan Sabar, 35, a farmer who lives in Boro village of drought-prone Purulia district of...
‘Timely identification’ as Dharavi crosses 200 COVID-19 cases, reports 13 deaths
Timely identification of positive patients and isolation of their contacts is why Mumbai’s Dharavi, one of the world’s...
India pauses antibody testing; US FDA says it hasn’t approved any antibody kits
As countries consider widespread testing and experts debate the merits and ethics of “immunity certificates”, more and...
Gram-negative sepsis drug to be trialled for treating critically-ill COVID-19 patients
The Drugs Controller General of India has approved the trial of a drug developed for the treatment of critically-ill...
