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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...
‘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...
Mumbai has 425 recovered COVID-19 patients, and they may help save many more lives
Mumbai has received a go-ahead to try out plasma therapy on COVID-19 patients, soon after its civic body issued a call...
COVID-19: US may conduct trials that involve deliberately infecting a patient
A group of US lawmakers has asked for the country’s drugs regulator to allow human challenge trials, a controversial...
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...
‘100-120 million jobs lost due to COVID-19 lockdown’
About 100-120 million Indians have lost their jobs due to the nationwide lockdown in the wake of COVID-19, Mahesh Vyas,...
After Goa, Manipur is COVID-free
As states begin relaxing lockdown measures in non-containment zones, two states--Goa and Manipur--have reported zero...
