Sign inWelcome! Log into your accountPassword recoveryRecover your passwordA password will be e-mailed to you.Text Size:A-A+New Delhi: Delhiites may be scrambling for beds and oxygen amid the deadly surge of Covid cases, but judges and officials of the Delhi High Court won’t have to, with 100 rooms being reserved for them in the Ashoka Hotel.The move comes after a “request” was received from the Delhi High Court “forsetting up of CHC facility for the Hon’ble Justices and other judicial officers of Delhi High Court and their families”.So, the Delhi government decided to requisition 100 rooms...…Sign inWelcome! Log into your accountPassword recoveryRecover your passwordA password will be e-mailed to you.Text Size:A-A+New Delhi: Delhiites may be scrambling for beds and oxygen amid the deadly surge of Covid cases, but judges and officials of the Delhi High Court won’t have to, with 100 rooms being reserved for them in the Ashoka Hotel.The move comes after a “request” was received from the Delhi High Court “forsetting up of CHC facility for the Hon’ble Justices and other judicial officers of Delhi High Court and their families”.So, the Delhi government decided to requisition 100 rooms...WW…

Sign inWelcome! Log into your accountPassword recoveryRecover your passwordA password will be e-mailed to you.Text Size:A-A+New Delhi: The novel coronavirus could end up impacting life expectancies by anywhere between one and nine years in various parts of the world, a study on the long-term population-level impact of the virus has found.The study by researchers from at least three countries has found that the effect will vary depending on the current life expectancies in each country.“At a 10 per cent Covid-19 prevalence rate, the loss in life expectancy at birth is likely above 1 year in...…Sign inWelcome! Log into your accountPassword recoveryRecover your passwordA password will be e-mailed to you.Text Size:A-A+New Delhi: The novel coronavirus could end up impacting life expectancies by anywhere between one and nine years in various parts of the world, a study on the long-term population-level impact of the virus has found.The study by researchers from at least three countries has found that the effect will vary depending on the current life expectancies in each country.“At a 10 per cent Covid-19 prevalence rate, the loss in life expectancy at birth is likely above 1 year in...WW…

Text Size:A-A+New Delhi: Human immunity and its components have never been the topic of such breathless discussion for such a long time. But then, there has never been a time like the Covid-19 pandemic.Between serological surveys (that check the level of antibodies against the SARS-CoV-2 virus in blood), rapid antigen tests (that test for the part of the virus that kickstarts immune mechanisms) and the quest for vaccines, the immune system is very much ‘in’.That is also why lymphocytes (a class of white blood cells), especially the ones known as T-cells are the flavour of the season. They...…Text Size:A-A+New Delhi: Human immunity and its components have never been the topic of such breathless discussion for such a long time. But then, there has never been a time like the Covid-19 pandemic.Between serological surveys (that check the level of antibodies against the SARS-CoV-2 virus in blood), rapid antigen tests (that test for the part of the virus that kickstarts immune mechanisms) and the quest for vaccines, the immune system is very much ‘in’.That is also why lymphocytes (a class of white blood cells), especially the ones known as T-cells are the flavour of the season. They...WW…

Sign inWelcome! Log into your accountPassword recoveryRecover your passwordA password will be e-mailed to you.Text Size:A-A+New Delhi: Over five months after the first Covid-19 case was reported in India, a government analysis of deaths reported until 2 July shows that just a little less than half of them have happened in young people — those below 60 years of age. In 43 per cent of the deaths, there were no known comorbidities.This flies in the face of repeated claims by the Narendra Modi government that most of the Covid patients who died had comorbidities.The analysis has been done by...…Sign inWelcome! Log into your accountPassword recoveryRecover your passwordA password will be e-mailed to you.Text Size:A-A+New Delhi: Over five months after the first Covid-19 case was reported in India, a government analysis of deaths reported until 2 July shows that just a little less than half of them have happened in young people — those below 60 years of age. In 43 per cent of the deaths, there were no known comorbidities.This flies in the face of repeated claims by the Narendra Modi government that most of the Covid patients who died had comorbidities.The analysis has been done by...WW…

Sign inWelcome! Log into your accountPassword recoveryRecover your passwordA password will be e-mailed to you.Text Size:A-A+Maharashtra:Maharashtra remains the state with the highest disease burden of 1,47,741 and 6,931 deaths. Several urban hotspots like Mumbai, Pune and Thane are make Covid control an uphill task in the state.  A comparison of the number of tests and the daily positives throws up the striking differences among the four states in testing even if the positivity rates are comparable at 19.5% for delhi, 13.8% for Maharashtra, 11.1% for Gujarat and 11.5% for Tamil...…Sign inWelcome! Log into your accountPassword recoveryRecover your passwordA password will be e-mailed to you.Text Size:A-A+Maharashtra:Maharashtra remains the state with the highest disease burden of 1,47,741 and 6,931 deaths. Several urban hotspots like Mumbai, Pune and Thane are make Covid control an uphill task in the state.  A comparison of the number of tests and the daily positives throws up the striking differences among the four states in testing even if the positivity rates are comparable at 19.5% for delhi, 13.8% for Maharashtra, 11.1% for Gujarat and 11.5% for Tamil...WW…