Topic: COVID-19
Let scientific evidence determine origin of Covid-19: Heads of US national academies
The presidents of the U.S. National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine issued a statement Tuesday urging that all investigations into the origins of Covid-19 "be guided...
Lack of patent waiver would add over $70 billion to vaccinate world: Oxfam
Oxfam International on Saturday warned that the failure of the world's richest nations to lift intellectual property protections for life-saving vaccines could ultimately raise...
NCPCR data reveals thousands of kids lost parents due to coronavirus, states take action
In the last week of April, when the COVID-19 daily caseload in India crossed the catastrophic 4,00,000 mark, a five-year-old girl staying with her COVID-19 contracted parents in Mangalore’s Father Mullers Hospital became an orphan overnight, losing three family members within hours.
ICLU: Verifying leads, legal group becomes saviour during COVID emergency
As Indian institutions became helpless in the second wave of COVID-19 which burdened and broke the healthcare infrastructure, Thousands of patients turned to social...
Pilgrimage in a pandemic: lessons from Mecca on containing COVID-19
Ahmed Kalebi, University of Nairobi
As a Muslim, at least once a year I go on pilgrimage to Mecca, Islam’s holiest city, located in Saudi...
WHO declares COVID mutation found in India ‘variant of concern’ for global health
The World Health Organization on Monday classified a coronavirus mutation first detected in India as a "variant of concern" for global health, warning that it appears to be more contagious than other strains.
