The Genesis of Covid-19 in Environmental Degradation
Universal constants are a set of mathematical values, fine-tuned to incredible precision to sustain the clockwork functioning of the universe. Life on Earth is a microcosm of those very forces,…
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Asia hardest hit by new COVID cases, deaths as WHO declares global health emergency ‘over’
Asia currently accounts for more than half of the world’s new and confirmed COVID-19 cases and deaths, with India, Indonesia and the Philippines being among the hardest-hit. Combined, WHO regions…
Chinese Authorities Should Have Been Much More Sensitive to Adverse Impacts of Prolonged Lockdowns
At a time when most of the world has left far behind the stage of prolonged COVID related lockdowns, the Chinese authorities have continued with very long lockdowns in several…
My Pandemic in Three Acts
Dealing with the Disease that Never Seems to Leave Town On New Years’ Eve 2019, Americans celebrated the advent of the roaring ‘20s with fireworks and champagne, amid ominous news…
Post-Pandemic & Marginalization Among PVTGs: Untold Story from Palamu
by Md Tabrez Alam & Achchhe Lal Prajapati ABSTRACT Jharkhand is a state rich in natural resources consisting of plateaus, small hills and forests located in the eastern part…
Cuba And China File Patent For Jointly-Produced Pan-Corona Vaccine for COVID-19 And Related Viruses
Cuba and China have filed the first patent for a vaccine against not just COVID-19 and its many variants, but which could also be effective against several related viruses, the…
Morbid Matters: Estimating COVID-19 Mortality
It has dominated news cycles, debates and policies since 2020, but COVID-19 continues to exercise the interest of number crunchers and talliers. While the ghoulish daily press announcements about infections…
The World Health Organization says the COVID pandemic has killed nearly 15 million across the globe
The World Health Organization (WHO) released Thursday its much-awaited and anticipated report on global excess deaths associated with COVID-19 for the period from January 2020 to December 2021. By the end of…
Asia continues to see disparities in access to vaccines: People’s Vaccine Alliance – Asia
On March 11, 2020 the World Health Organisation (WHO) declared Covid-19 as a pandemic. Two years into the pandemic, Asia continues to see disparities in access to vaccines which has…
Pandemic is not over yet by a long shot: Deaths rose every week in 2022
by Shobha Shukla and Bobby Ramakant Global health thought leader Dr Tim France rightly tweeted, “Here is the WHO stating explicitly what most people I know are saying to…
US death toll from COVID-19 heading toward 1 million
Today at 5:00 p.m., the US National Cathedral’s bell will ring 900 times, to mark 900,000 American dead from COVID-19. It has been just 55 days—less than two months—since the…
The Double Whammy of Hunger and Livelihood Crises after Covid-19
Pappu Singh is bedridden in his one-room dilapidated house. His nephew Pirghas (Right) and son Pavan (next to Pirghas) stand behind him along with some of their neighbours. The pandemic…
America’s Two Pandemics
Imagine that you were experiencing all of this (and by this, I mean our lives right now) as if it were a novel, à la Daniel Defoe’s A Journal of the Plague Year. The…
Covid-19 May Have Seasons For Different Temperature Zones, Says Study
World Health Organization (WHO) informed: Globally, as of 4:00pm CET, 28 January 2022, there have been 364,191,494 confirmed cases of COVID-19, including 5,631,457 deaths, reported to WHO. As of 28 January 2022, a total of 9,854,237,363 vaccine doses have been…
Booster dose of COVID-19 vaccine: To give or not to give?
by Shobha Shukla & Bobby Ramakant With almost 19 million new COVID-19 cases reported, the third week of January 2022 recorded the highest-ever weekly number of new infections so far…
Setback to India’s Covid Genome Sequencing Efforts- 5 Labs Shut- A cause for concern
To Shri Mansukh Mandaviya Union Health Minister Dear Shri Mandaviya, At a recent meeting to review the Covid containment effort, the Prime Minister was reported to have said, "There is…
No excuse not to end the acute stage of pandemic globally
by Shobha Shukla and Bobby Ramakant Is it not shocking that after more than two years into the pandemic (when we know how to protect ourselves from getting infected, and…
A Flawed Program – Millions Of Expiring Covid Vaccine Doses: Poorer Nations Reject
The short expiration dates of vaccines donated to the sharing program is a major problem, Etleva Kadilli, an official concerned with the issue told the European Parliament (EP) on Thursday.…
The Right to Healthy Food: Comorbidities and COVID-19
In early 2020, we saw the beginning of the COVID-19 ‘pandemic’. The world went into lockdown and even after lockdowns in various countries had been lifted, restrictions continued. Data now…
Reduced Social Relationship in the name of Covid, Delta and Omicron
Quite recently, I have observed and spoken to dozens of people about the impact brought in by ongoing waves of recent pandemics in the name of Covid, Delta and Omicron.…
Are we able to #BreakTheChain of infection transmission?
by Shobha Shukla & Bobby Ramakant The year 2022 began on a dismal note, with its first week reporting the highest-ever number of COVID-19 cases in a week globally. Since…
Don’t Let the Deeper Meaning of Christmas Be Lost in Materialism
On Saturday, millions of people across the world will celebrate Christmas. Even with COVID-19 still plaguing the world, families will gather; bells will ring; music will be in the air. Each…
Impending Omicron crisis- Why are political rallies and other large gatherings being permitted?
To Shri A K Bhalla Union Home Secretary Dear Shri Bhalla, We are once again facing a steep surge of the Covid virus; this time it is the new mutant,…
The Nazi Language of German Anti-Vaxxers
by Thomas Klikauer and Meg Young In Germany, conspiracy myths linked to the Coronavirus pandemic are spreading particularly well in the former East-Germany state of Saxony. Not by accident, Saxony…
The Omicron Shame: Why Is the World Punishing Instead of Helping Africa?
The decision by several governments across the globe to institute travel bans on seven African countries, starting on November 27, due to the discovery of a new Covid-19 variant, Omicron, was perceived to…
Private control over Public Goods- Disastrous outcomes, The case of Covid mismanagement and others
In common parlance, a “public good” refers to a commodity or service that becomes available to all members of a society with equal access, without discrimination. There are more rigorous…
Punishing the Unvaccinated: Europe’s COVID-19 Health Experiment
Forget any notions of juicy carrots; the stick approach of savage punishment is in vogue with the Greek government in pushing vaccination rates. It is far from the only one. …
Omicron and the Travel Ban Itch
Stick to the script: owe that duty of care to your population, so the legal experts in government tell you. Self-interest pays, if in small amounts. These rigid, formulaic assumptions…
Doing Social Science Research at the time of a Pandemic
Epistemic Upheavals, Inquests and Voices of a Geographically Marginalized Researcher Social Science Research at the Crossroad As an ethnographic researcher, I am expected to take a reflexive role— that is…
Oscillating between Ephemeral Life and Social Science Research: Reflections of a Pandemic
The corona virus has brought the entire humanity to a standstill. It has pushed the world to the domains of uncertainty and perplexity, making us question the inherent mystery of…
WHO on Omicron
Britain, Germany and Italy confirm cases of Omicron while other countries suspect cases of their own. Chaos at a Dutch airport exemplified the scattershot response across Europe. A New York…
Omicron: Take Precautions!
To Shri Rajesh Bhushan Union Health Secretary Dear Shri Bhushan, While we are about to conclude that we longer have to feel concerned about a Covid surge for the third…
Foreseeable Risk: Omicron Makes its Viral Debut
It has been written about more times than any care to remember. Pliny the Elder, that old cheek, told us that Africa always tended to bring forth something new: Semper…
German Vaccination Hesitancy: a Union View
by Thomas Klikauer & Meg Young By early November 2021, Germany’s Corona infection numbers reached new highs. Germany’s Robert Koch Institute (RKI) registered 40,000 new infections within 24 hours, the 7-day average…
A note on Present situation of covid19 in China and their strategy of combating
There are many news channels both domestic and foreign who propagate that China is facing a lot of trouble due to hike in corona pandemic recently. Most of them do…
Breakthrough Infections, Hospitalisations and Death during the Covid Vaccination Drive in Kerala
Abstract Kerala, the South-Western State in India with a population of 35 million was in the global limelight for successfully flattening the covid curve and for the lower case-fatality ratio…
WHO warns of 500,000 new COVID-19 deaths in Europe by February
by Will Morrow and Alex Lantier In a press conference yesterday, World Health Organisation (WHO) director for Europe Hans Kluge issued an urgent warning: Europe and the republics of the…
Melbourne: The Longest in Lockdown
As a city, Melbourne previously prided itself with the air of a prim and proper heiress, one without peer in Australia: a gastronomic wonder, a sporting goddess, and a place…
Compensation for Covid victims- The government ought to revisit its plea before the apex court
To Shri Sanjeeva Kumar Union Home Secretary Dear Shri Sanjeeva Kumar, I had earlier written to the Union Finance Minister in my letter dated 21-6-2021 on inaccuracies in the affidavit…
Science must guide India, UK: Stoking vaccine nationalism will fail us all
One of the seven sins we should not commit as warned by Mahatma Gandhi, is "science without humanity". But are we conscious enough to ensure that the global fight against…
Power and Glory in Times of Disease and Death
As the weeks long birthday festivity of the leadership is rejoiced country wide, the covid is still raging. The carnival is in line with the post covid decisions and actions…
5 Urgent Steps Needed to Vaccinate the World and End This Pandemic
The world stands at a critical juncture of the COVID-19 pandemic. Countries that lack the first round of vaccine coverage are extraordinarily vulnerable to the highly infectious Delta variant, and are…
Open Primary and Upper Primary Schools in Odisha
Corona Pandemic has deteriorated the Education System of Odisha, and of the country also. The Schools and Colleges have been closed since one and a half year. As…
Travails, Tribulations and Trepidations of a media infected: There are positives too!
The virus has left a lasting imprint on the present generation. Many people have not yet recovered fully from the infection and many others still lamenting on the loss of…
Australia, UK, Apartheid Israel & Deadly Premature Lifting Of Anti-Covid-19 Measures
Apartheid Israel and the UK are among world leaders in Covid-19 vaccination having achieved 63% and 64% of total population fully vaccinated, respectively. However premature cessation of Lockdown and related…
Covid-19 and Right-Wing Business in Germany
By Thomas Klikauer and Meg Young German coronavirus conspiracy theories are available for just €24.99. Germany’s right-wing media are cashing in on the fear of the pandemic. It is good…
COVID-19, Lockdown and Cancer Care in Kashmir, India: Some Glimpses
by Akhter Hussain Bhat & Dr. Mohammad Akram As of September 08, 2021, according to WHO, the COVID-19 pandemic has affected 222 countries and territories, with more than 220 million…
A Simple COVID Solution For The Human Race
The Covid Pandemic and Climate Crisis underscores a fatal split in the 21st Century within every society and human being’s better survival instinct’s, mirrored by the irresponsibility of the corporate…
Online class: The students who could not survive them
Adria Jagaranga was a student of Class 7. About 14 years old, the boy was a keen student. During the lockdown, he moved from Bhubaneswar, where he went to school,…
Vaccine Blues
There are several reports in the press here in Assam that in several rural regions people queuing up from daybreak for the jab were told that the vaccine stock was…
World marks 200 million cases of coronavirus pandemic
The world this week marked the 200 millionth confirmed case of the coronavirus pandemic, the latest in a series of grim milestones amid a pandemic that has been plaguing humanity…
Gender blindness and the Vaccine Gap
In a patriarchal society male privilege is not far away. So it should be no surprise that it has entered the domain of Covid vaccinations in India , especially at…
Impact and Challenges on Lawyers during Covid-19
by Sweta Lakhani & Abhiraj Agarwal The Covid-19 crises has been witnessed by the world around and India is one of the countries with the huge population has suffered personal…
COVID-19 Pandemic Of The Unvaccinated, Vaccine Hesitancy, Manufactured Dissent & Lying By Omission
We are all concerned for family, friends, community and Humanity as a whole in the COVID-19 Pandemic especially as the much more infectious Delta strain has become dominant. However many…
The Little Talked About Covid-19 ‘Variants’: Vaccine Mismanagement Will Have Dire Repercussions
Do you remember the United Nations Millennium Development Goals? If not, you are not alone. These ambitious goals, which included the eradication of “extreme poverty and hunger”, to “combating lethal…
The Evolving Debate on COVID-19 Origin and Its Missing Component
On July 22, in the latest twist in the evolving debate on COVID origin, Chinese officials said that they were shocked and offended by a World Health Organization proposal to…
Infectious Follies: Britain’s Freedom Day
He can scant resist a slogan, but UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s insistence on describing Britain’s exit from lockdown as Freedom Day came with its usual kitschy quality. All would…
Covid-19, State Repression and the Decline of People’s Movement
by Dr. Md Afroz & Md Tabrez Alam The outbreak of Covid-19 shattered the whole world, everything goes on standstill except state, it got absolute control over territory and population…
COVID19 Crisis In Malaysia: Questions And Motives
The significant increase in Covid 19 infections in our country in the last one week has prompted concerned Malaysians to ask the authorities to re-strategize their approach towards the fight…
Lives and Livelihoods in the Wake of Covid-19 Pandemic in Rural Bihar
by Gaurav Datt, Swati Dutta and Sunil Kumar Mishra The study The Covid-19 pandemic has triggered an unprecedented health and an economic crisis of in India. It is important to…
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