India is contemplating a prolonged slowdown as cases of coronavirus reach its countryside. The expanded fiscal deficit can also hinder India’s capacity to produce further stimuli. “Indeed, the economic situation has worsened since April and [Read More]
Relevance During the past 70 years, a number of infectious diseases have been targeted in India for eradication, with mixed results. Coronavirus is just the recent one. The WHO recently said that India has “tremendous [Read More]
Instances of so many disease outbreaks, like Ebola, Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS), Bird Flu, Swine Flu etc. over the past few years including the present COVID-19 outbreak has reignited the curiosity, of not only [Read More]
Governments around the world have pledged 8.1 billion dollars for global vaccines alliance ‘Gavi’ to help immunization programmes disrupted by coronavirus, so that a global cooperation can be met to ensure COVID-19 vaccine is available [Read More]
PM CARES fund was setup to tackle the distress situations such as those posed by the pandemic. In a very short time the PM CARES has received donations more in thousands of crores including unlimited tax-free contributions from private corporations… [Read More]
The pandemic has affected every section of the society and economies have been forced to go into lockdown. The lockdown has severely disrupted economic activities and big conglomerates, as well as unorganized sectors, have been [Read More]
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South Asia accounts for around 25% of the world population. But the number of infections in the subcontinent is just around 1.25% and the number of deaths is only 0.5%. The editorial looks into the [Read More]
Healthcare professionals are at the forefront of the whole crisis and are working in hazardous conditions. However, instead of being appreciated, they have been abused and beaten up. The condition is so bad that the [Read More]
The pandemic will impact all sectors of the world. The UN Secretary-General has warned that to mitigate the impacts many countries might follow repressive measures. Human rights should guide the response and recovery to the [Read More]
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