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‘There are other health challenges that are waiting to be tackled’

COVID-19, arguably, has become endemic in India

Chandrakant Lahariya

A health worker administers the Sputnik V vaccine at a COVID-19 vaccination centre in Chennai. File

The Sputnik V conundrum

Aditya Manubarwala

No cause for alarm: On the fresh surge in COVID-19 cases

A medic takes a swab sample at the Ram Manohar Lohia Hospital in Lucknow.

Is COVID-19 becoming endemic?

‘The population-wide application of the pandemic response in India can be transitioned to be focused on individual protection’

A ground plan for India’s COVID-19 response

Chandrakant Lahariya

A cremation ground in New Delhi in April 2021.

Inadequacies of the Civil Registration System

K. Narayanan Unni

Engage, not dismiss: On India’s response to WHO’s COVID-19 deaths report

‘The current dispute has been noisier than usual, but is not new’

The bitter dispute over India’s pandemic mortality

Aashish Gupta,Murad Banaji

One more year: On the postponement of Hangzhou Asian Games

In haste: On vaccinating children against COVID-19

‘A quick study of India’s COVID-19 response is insightful’

Settling India’s COVID-19 mortality data

A health worker collects swab samples from a man for a COVID-19 test in New Delhi on April 20, 2022.

Is India heading towards a possible fourth wave of COVID-19?

Disease and the cure: On China’s zero COVID strategy

Medicine vector concept. Medication vials and syringe in isometric view on white background

A blow to equitable access to essential medicines

Biswajit Dhar ,K.M. Gopakumar

The spring blues: On India’s recovery two years into the pandemic

Too little, too late: On COVID-19 vaccines and patent rights

Unhealthy precedent: On vaccinating children

Being ready: On vaccination and India’s third COVID-19 wave

Scale up supplies: On Omicron variant

Syringes with needles are seen in front of a displayed stock graph and words 'Omicron SARS-CoV-2' in this illustration taken, November 27, 2021. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration

What the Omicron variant means for India

Gautam I. Menon

Vaccine Line Icon with Editable Stroke

Learning from the best in India’s COVID-19 fight

Madhukar Pai,Purnima Menon

Focus on full vaccination: On India’s COVID-19 inoculation pace

Medical syringe and bottle with liquid drug in continuous line art drawing style. Treatment, immunization and vaccination minimalist design. Vector illustration

India needs to sign up for life-course immunisation

Chandrakant Lahariya

Police personnel administered vaccination for COVID-19 at a camp at Nethaji stadium in vellore on Saturday.

Strengthening vaccine trust

Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation health workers during a drive to collect samples to test for COVID-19.

A reminder from SARS-CoV-2

Covid vaccine icon

The vaccination milestone and a distant goal

Prime Minister Narendra Modi visits Ram Manohar Lohia Hospital as India crossed the 1 billion Covid-19 vaccine dose milestone, in New Delhi.

Responding to adversity with achievement

Scripting history: On 100 crore COVID-19 vaccine doses

Concept of coronavirus or covid-19 contract tracing showing with network of connected illustrative humans with 3d rendered virus as background

Vigilance, vaccination and endemic COVID-19

T. Jacob John,M.S. Seshadri

A flicker of hope: On declining COVID-19 numbers

Vital relief: On COVID-19 death compensation

A spike: On records and COVID-19 vaccination coverage

Cracking the whip: On Joe Biden’s vaccine mandates

Hyderabad, 04/09/2021: School children wearing face masks as a precaution against the coronavirus attend a class on the fourth day of reopening of schools at Government School of Raj Bhavan in Hyderabad on Saturday, September 4, 2021. Photo: RAMAKRISHNA G / The Hindu

Should children be given COVID-19 jabs?

Bhaskaran Raman,Kameswari Chebrolu

The lag between jabs: On Covishield gap

Back at school: On student safety

Breakthrough challenge: On vaccines and the virus variants

New Delhi: Students attend their class at a Sarvodaya Bal Vidyalaya which reopened after further ease in COVID-19 restrictions, in New Delhi, Wednesday, Sep 1, 2021. (PTI Photo/Vijay Verma)(PTI09_01_2021_000030B)

The prognosis for school reopenings

Gautam I. Menon,Sandeep Krishna

Effectiveness of vaccines

Commuters jostle for space to board a KSRTC bus in Kochi on August 26, 2021.

Kerala’s rising COVID-19 cases explained

Learning safely: On schools reopening

A health worker takes blood sample for a serological survey. File

A surfeit of sero surveys

Curbing Delta: On the variant that drives India’s COVID-19 infections

Online doctor and telemedicine: woman connecting with a doctor online using a smartphone app and having a professional medical consultation

Focusing on diseases sidelined by COVID-19

Giridhara R. Babu,Raghupathy Anchala

Close up of a COVID-19 text tag on paper

Lessons from India’s all-cause mortality data

Aashish Gupta,Murad Banaji

Safe at school: On getting students back on campus

Illustration of vaccine syringes

The importance of the booster dose to plan ahead

T. Jacob John,M.S. Seshadri

A relative lights the funeral pyre of a COVID-19 victim in Gauhati, India, Friday, July 2, 2021. India on Friday crossed the grim milestone of more than 400,000 people lost to the coronavirus, a number that though massive is still thought to be a vast undercount because of a lack of testing and reporting. (AP Photo/Anupam Nath)

A call for improving civil registration systems

Gopalan Balagopal,K. Narayanan Unni

Pandemic of distrust: On resisting COVID-19 vaccination

Vaccinating the young: On priority groups

New Delhi: Medics collect blood sample of residents for serological survey to analyse the spread of COVID-19, at a Mohalla Clinic at Geeta Colony in east Delhi, Tuesday, June 30, 2020. The serological test or sero-surveillance study is a part of the new Covid-19 response plan prepared by the Centre for Delhi. (PTI Photo)(PTI30-06-2020_000060B)

A serosurvey template for the whole of India

Giridhara R. Babu,Dileep Mavalankar

Making decisions under stress

Dealing with denial: On playing down the COVID-19 tragedy

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A cardinal omission in the COVID-19 package

Chandrakant Lahariya

Rising again: On global rise of fresh COVID-19 cases

Ramping up supply: On COVID-19 vaccination woes

An elderly man leaves after receiving a dose of a COVID-19 vaccine as a health worker answers queries of another recipient in Imphal on July 13, 2021.

Upholding trust in vaccination

Soham D. Bhaduri

Caution and optimism: On preventing the third wave

KOCHI, Kerala, 22/05/2021: Inside view of country's largest oxygen bed facility equipped with 1,500 oxygen beds for treatment of Covid - 19 patients at BPCL campus in Ernakulam. Ernakulam district administration, Kerala Health Department and National Urban Health Mission are helming the facility along with BPCL - Kochi Refinery. Photo : Thulasi Kakkat/The Hindu

Countering the next wave of COVID-19

Stopping the surge: On unlock and the next COVID-19 wave

A welcome spike: On India’s COVID-19 vaccination record

A time to give: On ex-gratia compensation to families of COVID-19 victims

Varanasi: Cremation of COVID-19 patients at Manikarnika Ghat crematorium, as coronavirus cases surge countrywide in Varanasi, Saturday, April 17, 2021. (PTI Photo)(PTI04_17_2021_000252A)

Focus on COVID-19 estimated deaths

Chandrakant Lahariya

What needs to be done with vaccines

Gagandeep Kang,George Thomas,Jayaprakash Muliyil

Counting the dead: On measuring excess deaths

Refocused vaccination campaigns are possible

Bring genomic sequencing into the pandemic fight

Chandrakant Lahariya

A healthcare worker gives a dose of Covishield to a shepherd during a vaccination drive at a forest area in J&K’s Pulwama district on June 7, 2021.

Preparing for the next COVID-19 wave

Giridhara R. Babu

Connecting the dots to mitigate a third wave

Medicine doctor and robotics research and analysis. Diagnose checking coronavirus or covid-19 testing result with modern virtual screen in laboratory, Inhibition of disease outbreaks and Medical technology.

The red flags on the trail of the virus

A vendor wearing a protective mask sells dairy products at the town square during a lockdown imposed to curb the spread of the coronavirus in Dharmsala, India, Saturday, May 29, 2021. (AP Photo/Ashwini Bhatia)

Behaviorial change can reduce transmission

Adverse changes, federalism imperilled

Kalaiyarasan A.,M. Vijayabaskar

Close the vaccination gap, in global lockstep

HYDERABAD, TELANGANA: 25/05/2021: A staff Nurse display for the COVAXIN vaccine at Urban Primary Health Centre Koti for second dose vaccination in Hyderabad on Tuesday, May 25, 2021. Photo: NAGARA GOPAL / The Hindu

Only a global effort can tame COVID-19

Thankom Arun,Reji Joseph

Addressing vaccine hesitancy

T.S. Ravikumar,Rajeev Aravindakshan

Naturally, selection: On vaccinating the vulnerable in 18+ group

HYDERABAD, TELANGANA: 25/05/2021: Citizens wear masks as a precaution against the coronavirus as a health worker administers the COVAXIN vaccine at Urban Primary Health Centre Koti for second dose vaccination in Hyderabad on Tuesday, May 25, 2021. Photo: NAGARA GOPAL / The Hindu

Vaccination is our only weapon

Extending safety: On deferring second dose of COVID-19 vaccine

The AIDS fight offers a COVID vaccine patent pathway

Murphy Halliburton

An Indian woman is administered a dose of Covishield, Serum Institute of India’s version of the AstraZeneca vaccine as others wait their turn in Bengaluru, India, Wednesday, May 19, 2021. India has the second-highest coronavirus caseload after the U.S. with more than 25 million confirmed infections. (AP Photo/Aijaz Rahi)

The basics of an effective vaccine policy

Gagandeep Kang,George Thomas,Jayaprakash Muliyil

Using all options: On Covaxin licensing

State action: On Centre’s role in COVID-19 fight

COVID mishandling foretold in the Budget

Praveen Chakravarty

A matter of concern: On Indian coronavirus variant

Vaccine skirmishes: On production of COVID-19 vaccine

Lockdown gains: On need to augment health system

Social murder and the missing state

Nissim Mannathukkaren

A CT scan for COVID merits a word of caution

To stop a third wave, India has to mask up

Tamil Nadu, Chennai, 27/04/2021 : A health worker shows Covaxine and Covishield viral at the COVID-19 vaccination drive to inoculate senior citizen and people aged 45 year with co-morbidities, picture taken at a screening centre, Greater Chennai Corporation Communicable Diseases Hospital (CDH) Tondiarpet in Chennai on Tuesday. Photo : Jothi Ramalingam .B / The Hindu

Is the government committed to vaccine equity?

G. Ananthakrishnan

Salutary steps: On Election Commission norms to curb COVID-19 spread

Shortage and wastage: On cutting vaccine wastage

Gasping for air, gasping for answers

This Monday, April 6, 2020, photo shows an arrangement of Hydroxychloroquine pills in Las Vegas. President Donald Trump and his administration are keeping up their out-sized promotion of the anti-malaria drug not yet officially approved for fighting the new coronavirus, but scientists say more testing is needed before it's proven safe and effective against COVID-19. (AP Photo/John Locher)

Misinformed and misleading

Right priorities: On U.S. COVID-19 aid to India

FILE - In this Friday, March 5, 2021 file photo, a nurse holds a vial of AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine manufactured by the Serum Institute of India and provided through the global COVAX initiative, at Kenyatta National Hospital in Nairobi, Kenya. Some Africans are hesitating to get COVID-19 vaccines amid concerns about their safety, alarming public health officials as some countries start to destroy thousands of doses that expired before use. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis, File)

A patently wrong regime

Suhrith Parthasarathy

Ambulances carrying COVID-19 patients line up waiting for their turn to be attended to at a dedicated COVID-19 government hospital in Ahmedabad, India, Thursday, April 22, 2021. Indian authorities scrambled Saturday to get oxygen tanks to hospitals where COVID-19 patients were suffocating amid the world’s worst coronavirus surge, as the government came under increasing criticism for what doctors said was its negligence in the face of a foreseeable public health disaster. (AP Photo/Ajit Solanki)

Tips for managing COVID-19 at home: the dos & don’ts

Priya Sampathkumar

Undermining ‘vaccination for all’

Biswajit Dhar ,K.M. Gopakumar

Another wave spells more nutrition loss

Ankur Sarin,Karan Singhal,Advaita Rajendra

Unfair and dangerous: On vaccine inequity

Viral load: On lockdowns, lives and livelihoods

The road ahead in India’s augmented vaccination drive

Sharmila Mary Joseph

Infernal infernos: On hospital fires amid the pandemic

Too little: On the Election Commission’s COVID-19 curbs

India’s COVID crisis — when difficult became worse

A descent into disillusionment and chaos

Soham D. Bhaduri

Open and safe: On Modi government’s vaccination policy

FILE PHOTO: A notice about the shortage of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccine supplies is seen at a vaccination centre, in Mumbai, India, April 8, 2021. REUTERS/Francis Mascarenhas/File Photo

A recipe for vaccine inequity

Vaccine diplomacy that needs specific clarifications

On the trail of the second wave’s dynamics

T. Jacob John,M.S. Seshadri

How can India contain the second wave?

Migrant workers wait to board outstation trains at Mumbai’s Lokmanya Tilak Terminus on April 14, 2021.

Lessons from the first wave

Examination priorities: On annual exams amid the pandemic

Employees pack boxes containing vials of Covishield vaccine at the Serum Institute of India in Pune on January 21, 2021.

The secrecy around deaths after vaccination

Medical staff from Chennai Corporation take swab tests from employees and students of a private college in Chennai. File

Indian universities need immediate vaccination

A health worker takes a swab sample at a coronavirus testing centre, in Chennai. File

Lessons from COVID-19

A.V. Ramanan,M. Shankar-Hari

The second wave: On why new COVID-19 vaccines should be cleared

Weighing in on the saga of a vaccine

Rising poverty: On pandemic-induced disparities

A booster shot for India’s vaccination plan

Giridhara R. Babu

Allaying concerns: On public trust and vaccination programmes

A moral test: On the vaccine divide

Efficacious too: On Covaxin

Sustaining the drive: On COVID-19 vaccination phase 2

Vaccine inequities: On need to vaccinate all above 45

THOOTHUKUDI, TAMIL NADU, 24/02/2021: Corporation Commissioner Sharanya Ari takes administered the COVID -19 vaccine at Thoothukudi Government medical college hospital on Wednesday. PHOTO : RAJESH N

Addressing vaccine reluctance and policy hesitancy

T. Jacob John,M.S. Seshadri

NEW DELHI, 19/12/2020. Medical staff with PPE Suit seen offering Face Mask after collecting swab samples for conducting Covid RT-PCR test near the field on the banks of the yamuna river in New Delhi on Saturday. India crossed one crore (10 Million) in 323 days after 27,022 cases recorded on Friday. Photo: MOORTHY RV / The Hindu

Redefining the exit plan for COVID-19

Giridhara R. Babu

Boosting confidence: On need for efficient use of COVID-19 vaccine stocks

A beneficiary gets herself clicked at a photo booth after receiving a COVID-19 vaccination shot at the BMC’s jumbo facility at Bandra-Kurla Complex.

Opening up the vaccine market

Chirantan Chatterjee

Origin and spread: On the source of SARS-CoV-2

New questions: On COVID-19 infecting one-fifth of Indian population

A year on, mind the gaps in the pandemic response

J.V.R. Prasada Rao,Amartya Chowdhury

Visakhapatnam , Andhra Pradesh : 09/11/2020: Students going to school wearing masks in Visakhapatnam on Monday, November 09, 2020.
Photo : K.R. Deepak / The Hindu

Should Board exams be conducted in one go this year?

D. Suresh Kumar

No to vaccine nationalism, yes to global cooperation

Thankom Arun,Reji Joseph

Tempered optimism: On India’s sliding COVID-19 graph

A medical worker inoculates a frontline staff with a COVID-19 vaccine at KIMS hospital in Hyderabad on January 25, 2021.

The best shot against COVID-19

Upendra Kaul,Meera Shah

Vials of Covishield at the Serum Institute of India, Pune.

More vaccines than takers

Managing the rollout: On addressing vaccine hesitancy

Injecting confidence: On India’s COVID-19 vaccination drive

Vaccine optimism and the scientific uncertainty link

Rama V. Baru,Rajib Dasgupta

NEW DELHI, 06/01/2021. A vaccine kept during a Dry Run for Covid Vaccination at a Dispensary run by South Delhi Municipal Corporation at Srinivaspuri in New Delhi on Wednesday, January 06, 2021. Photo: MOORTHY RV / The Hindu

Building trust in vaccines

The debilitating side-effect of a flawed vaccine trial

Gearing up: On vaccines and public trust

A hurried gamble: On vaccines and transparency

The second dose: On COVID-19 vaccine

A constant vigil: On the new coronavirus strain in India

Unmasked, reflections on the pandemic and life

M. Venkaiah Naidu

Caution pays: On Centre’s COVID-19 surveillance guidelines

A vendor waits for customers at his roadside eatery stall in front of a mural representing a frontline COVID-19 warrior painted on a wall in New Delhi on December 27, 2020.

Towards an effective vaccination distribution policy

Essential dry run: On COVID-19 vaccination drive

COVID-19 and limits of political accountability

Irfan Nooruddin

A woman holds a small bottle labelled with coronavirus vaccine sticker in this illustration picture. File

The purpose of a vaccine

Clear the fog, draw up a clear vaccination policy

T. Jacob John,M.S. Seshadri

Rein in the vaccine nationalism, the profiteering

In vaccine race last lap, the key steps for India

Combination of file pictures shows a sign for Pfizer pharmaceutical company in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and the Moderna headquarters in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

The storage tale of two vaccines

Innate resistance: Among people not infected with novel coronavirus, 20-50% harbour memory T cells derived from previous exposures to common cold coronaviruses.

T-cell immunity and COVID-19

T. Jacob John,M.S. Seshadri

Kolkata: The thick smog on Saturday morning created trouble to the city dwellers in Kolkata. Even as the West Bengal government is engaged in frantic efforts to phase out old vehicles, green activists claim that Kolkata is fast heading towards disaster due to abnormally high air pollution levels and needs a strong action plan to combat the menace. A study released on Thursday by the Centre of Science and Environment (CSE), a New Delhi-based organisation working on green issues, revealed that the annual average of Kolkata's respirable suspended particulate matter exceeded the national standards in 2007 by 1.4 times and, as per the monthly data available, the trend is continuing. According to CSE, the carcinogenic benzene levels in Kolkata were found in winter of 2006-2007 to be as high as 36 microgrammes per cubic metre, higher than Delhi, which has a larger number of vehicles. To reduce the carbon emissions in the air, the central government has already taken several steps and before the climate talks in Copenhagen, which start next week, and India has promised to slow the growth of its emissions in the future. Photo: Arunangsu Roy Chowdhury. December 05, 2009.

COVID-19, climate and carbon neutrality

Signs of easing: On India’s COVID-19 fight

New Delhi: 16/10/2020: Rapid antigen test of covid 19 virus in progress at Rajasthan Udyog Nagar (Industrial Area), in New Delhi on Friday .Photo: Sushil Kumar Verma / The Hindu

Has India passed the COVID-19 peak?

Sooner, better: On indigenously developed COVID-19 test kits

Police personnel stand guard near the barricades set up at a Durga Puja pandal in Kolkata on October 21, 2020.

The battered Puja economy

Outline of a pandemic fight, by and for citizens

Pandemics and the collective consciousness

Vaccines with a global common good guarantee

Saving lives under the long shadow of the pandemic

Lakshmi Vijayakumar,Sukriti Chauhan

Until vaccine: On Unlock 5

People wearing protective face masks stand in a line to enter a metro station amidst the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in New Delhi, India, September 14, 2020. REUTERS/Anushree Fadnavis

The challenge of changing health behaviour

Weighing the costs: On COVID-19 vaccine

People stand in a queue as a healthcare worker checks the temperature of a resident during a medical campaign for the coronavirus disease in Mumbai.

The slow and frustrating journey of recovering from COVID-19

Health worker safety deserves a second look

Anant Bhan,Harikeerthan Raghuram

Unlocking campuses: On UGC’s revised academic calendar

FILE PHOTO: A medical worker takes care of a patient suffering from the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), at the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) of the Yatharth Hospital in Noida, on the outskirts of New Delhi, India, September 15, 2020. REUTERS/Adnan Abidi/File Photo

Recovery from COVID-19 can be a struggle

Nikita Mehra,Lancelot Pinto

Closeup of Ruffled SAARC Flag, SAARC Flag Blowing in Wind

Uniting to combat COVID-19

Syed Munir Khasru

Coronavirus fears and preconception advice

T. Jacob John,M.S. Seshadri

An agriculture-led revival as flawed claim

A necessary pause: On the COVID-19 vaccine race

The uncertainties over COVID-19 numbers

A.S. Panneerselvan

Workers in protective suits prepare to cremate the body of a person who died of COVID-19 at Nigam Bodh Ghat in New Delhi on May 29, 2020. FIle

The challenges in counting the dead

Giridhara R. Babu

An Indian paramilitary soldier walks back after performing religious rituals during the cremation of his colleague who died of COVID-19, at a crematorium in Srinagar, Indian controlled Kashmir, Saturday, July 18, 2020. India crossed 1 million coronavirus cases on Friday, third only to the United States and Brazil, prompting concerns about its readiness to confront an inevitable surge that could overwhelm hospitals and test the country's feeble health care system. (AP Photo/Dar Yasin)

COVID-19 deaths may be higher than reported

Hemant Deepak Shewade,Giridara Gopal Parameswaran

KOCHI, Kerala, 30/07/2020: Volunteers in personal protection gears engaged in cremating the body of a woman, who died of Covid 19 infection in Kochi on Wednesday. She was cremated at a Catholic cemetery at St.Michael's Church, Chembumukku in Kochi on Thursday. Photo : Thulasi Kakkat/The Hindu

The many challenges in estimating deaths

Alone at the top: On India’s COVID-19 numbers

The participants we need in Phase 3 trials

T. Jacob John,M.S. Seshadri

Differential impact of COVID-19 and the lockdown

Ashwini Deshpande,Rajesh Ramachandran

More than a vaccine, it is about vaccination

T. Jacob John,M.S. Seshadri

COVID-19 and a country club India must leave

A quest for order amid cyber insecurity

Syed Akbaruddin

Adopting a public systems approach to COVID-19

Pulapre Balakrishnan

Milestone of a million: On India’s COVID-19 numbers

Testing times: On university exams

COIMBATORE, TAMIL NADU 03/07/2020. (Standalone) Women walk past a graffiti on a wall to create awareness about wearing masks to avoid the risk of the COVID-19 in Coimbatore on Friday July 03, 2020. Photo: M. Periasamy/ The Hindu.

Predictions, pandemics and public health

It’s time to flatten the pandemic stereotyping

Rama Mohana R. Turaga,George Kandathil,Joshy Jacob

Viral outrage only spikes the data

FILE PHOTO: A sales woman wearing a face shield and a mask arranges gold bangles at a jewelry showroom as few stores opened after few restrictions were lifted, during an extended lockdown to slow the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in Kolkata, India, May 26, 2020. REUTERS/Rupak De Chowdhuri/File Photo

Sending the right message

Sujatha Byravan

A health worker takes a swab sample during rapid antigen test for the coronavirus disease at Guru Gobind Singh Hospital in Delhi on July 10, 2020.

Needed: Clear testing data

Vector old building doodle sketch over watercolor background.

The social contract needs to be rewritten

SRINATH SRIDEVAN,Aadil Currimbhoy

Silhouette of exodus of economically backward people carrying luggages and children.

The pandemic is about eyes shut

Rajendran Narayanan

“The longer-term decline in LPR in Tamil Nadu could be attributed to general economic shocks, on the one hand, and a combination of industry-specific issues, on the other.” A firecracker factory in Sivakasi district, Tamil Nadu. PTI

Joblessness and opportunity in Tamil Nadu

Vikas Kumar,P.G. Babu,Poonam Singh

Photo: Twitter/@moefcc

Green-lighting ecological decimation amidst a pandemic

Aniket Aga,Chitrangada Choudhury

People being evacuated from Nizamuddin Centre for COVID-19 testing to various hospitals and government-run quarantine facilities in New Delhi. File

COVID-19 has no religion

Shaikh Mujibur Rehman

A case for extension: On rural jobs scheme

Surely, even if slowly: On a COVID-19 vaccine

Bend it like Italy: On flattening the COVID-19 curve

Promise and delivery: On India’s first COVID-19 vaccine

States hold the key: On Unlock 2.0

PCR testing is a double-edged sword

T. Jacob John,M.S. Seshadri

Science vs nonsense: On Patanjali’s COVID-19 claim

Shut and open: On tennis during the pandemic

The perils of follow the leader syndrome

The many questions about Favipiravir

Dinesh S. Thakur,S.P. Kalantri

In new lockdown, a second chance for Tamil Nadu

United front in Delhi: On Kejriwal government-Centre camaraderie

A prescription of equitable and effective care

George Thomas,Anand Zachariah

Getty images/istockphoto

Multilateralism post COVID-19

Syed Akbaruddin

Making public transport safe during COVID-19

Ashish Verma,R. Jayakrishnan,S. Velmurugan

A better rate: On COVID-19 recovery

Look back in relief: On the migrant labour crisis

Needed, a transfusion for public health care

Wrong priorities: On keeping religious places open during a pandemic

Crossing the line: On Delhi’s decision to limit health services

Profit, not profiteering: On regulation of COVID-19 testing charges

In Persian Gulf littoral, cooperative security is key

Paging the private sector in the COVID fight

Vijayashree Yellappa,A. Venkat Raman

Curves and recoveries: On India’s coronavirus numbers

India’s Parliament is missing in action

Migrant worker Kiran Devi and her children walk along a road in New Delhi on June 3, 2020 to her home in Chhatarpur, Madhya Pradesh. Ms. Devi started her journey on May 23, 2020 from Jalandhar.

Axing the economy’s trunk

Scripting a new narrative for COVID control

T. Jacob John,M.S. Seshadri

Open with caution: On Unlock 1

It’s time for a universal basic income programme in India

The waning of subaltern solidarity for Hindutva

Export blocks: On India’s trade amid the pandemic

A moment to trust the teacher

The echo of migrant footfalls and the silence on policy

Sanjoy Hazarika

“Farmers are the cornerstone of food security of our country.” Farmers harvest rice in a field on the outskirts of Bhubaneswar. AP

Enjoying the fruits of their labour

M. Venkaiah Naidu

A vegetable seller at Azadpur Mandi in New Delhi on April 29, 2020.

Helping supply chains recover

Vipin P. Veetil,Kumar Anand

The heavy burden of social suffering

Rajeev Bhargava

Union Minister of State for Home G. Kishan Reddy

An effective lockdown

G. Kishan Reddy

NEW DELHI, 17/05/2020: Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman during her fifth press conference on Aatmanirbhar Bharat Abhiyan stimulus package at National Media Centre in New Delhi on May 17, 2020.
Photo: Shiv Kumar Pushpakar

The lockdown has highlighted stark inequalities

Getty Images/iStockphoto

Will sport be the same in empty stadia?

Video watching concept illustration of young people using mobile gadgets, tablet pc and smartphone for live watching a video via internet. Flat design of guys and women staying near big symbol

Cinema after COVID-19

Migrant workers from Mumbai reach Thane on their way to their hometowns on May 8, 2020.

The eternal longing for the distant home

N. Venkateswaran

Working safely: On workplaces during the pandemic

A hole in the whole: On health sector woes

China, better prepared for the post-COVID world

Health workers at Guwahati Medical College Hospital. File

How public health boosts an economy

K. Srinath Reddy

Coronavirus shaped auto being driven out at Alandur, Chennai. File

Keep it retrospective

A technician from Dr. Dangs Lab demonstrates before the media sample collection process for COVID-19 tests with the help of a dummy, in New Delhi. The Lab has initiated a drive-through COVID-19 testing facility while trying to ensure maximum safety and minimum exposure for the subject and health care staff during sample collection.

Backing the ‘angels in white coats’

Standstill: On opening of stadia for training

Migrant workers with their faces covered and carrying their belongings, walk along a railway track to return to their home state of eastern Bihar, during an extended nationwide lockdown to slow the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in Ghaziabad, in the outskirts of New Delhi, India, May 13, 2020. REUTERS/Adnan Abidi

Flawed stimulus is justice denied

Atul K. Thakur,Yashwant Sinha

Doctors and medical staff attend residents at a COVID-19 coronavirus community clinic in Mumbai on May 19, 2020.

We need social physicians

Soham D. Bhaduri

Migrant workers queue outside the Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Terminus railway station in Mumbai on May 19, 2020.

A callous response

Madhurika Sankar

Peaking: On India’s coronavirus tally

Farm gate in focus: On amending Essential Commodities Act

A question of quarantine: On migrant workers and other travellers

TASMAC tribulations: On Tamil Nadu liquor sale

The pandemic and the challenge of behaviour change

One for the poor: On Centre’s corona package

Lockdown syndrome: On virus-induced economic crisis

Getty Images/iStockphoto

Are India’s labour laws too restrictive?

Suresh Seshadri

ANDHRA PRADESH, VIJAYAWADA, 14-05-2020: The arduous journey by road of migrant labour continues like for this small family from Chennai passing through Vijayawada on Thursday on way back home in Odisha. Photo: K.V.S. Giri/ THE HINDU

Stop the return to laissez-faire

Anna Mathew,R. Vaigai

A man gives money to a worker (L) to buy bottles of alcohol from a liquor shop after the government eased a nationwide lockdown imposed as a preventive measure against the COVID-19 coronavirus, on the outskirts of Chennai on May 7, 2020. (Photo by Arun SANKAR / AFP)

States cannot be left to the Centre’s mercy

Praveen Chakravarty

Local motif: On Modi’s call for self-reliance

Liquidity lifeline: On Nirmala’s MSME package

A plan to revive a broken economy

Harsh Mander,Jayati Ghosh,Prabhat Patnaik

Provide income support, restore jobs

R. Nagaraj,Radhicka Kapoor

Perilous state: On State finances

A health worker checks the body temperature of a passenger before the departure of a special train to New Delhi at Sabarmati Railway Staion in Ahmedabad on May 12, 2020.

COVID-19 and the path ahead

K. Kumaran,G.V. Krishnaveni,Kumar G.S.,Giriraj Chandak

A dog is seen on a deserted Rajpath during janata curfew on March 22, 2020.

Reaffirm cooperative federalism

Pranav Verma,Sughosh Joshi

VIJAYAWADA. ANDHRA PRADESH, 02-04-2020. Chief Minister Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy participating in a video - conference with Prime Minister Narendra Modi on the COVID situation on Thursday. PHOTO: BY_ARRANGMENT

Riding roughshod over State governments

Prashant Bhushan,Shyam Agarwal

Tragedy on the tracks: On the killing of 16 migrant workers

Coming to terms: On India refusing to admit community transmission

The trends shaping the post-COVID-19 world

The epidemic and ensuring safety in courts

Kochi/ Kerala, 15/10/18: Puthuvype PHC functioning out of one room in Vypeen on October 15, 2018. Photo:H.Vibhu/The Hindu.

Responding to COVID-19 at the grassroots

T.R. Raghunandan

Policemen attempt to stop migrant workers as they gather outside a registration camp in Jalandhar on May 10, 2020.

The face of exploitation

Contempt for labour: On dilution of labour laws

Slower growth and a tighter fiscal

C. Rangarajan,D.K. Srivastava

Back home: On return of Indian expatriates

Blame game: On Donald Trump’s anti-China rhetoric over COVID-19

Resuscitating multilateralism with India’s help

Amitabh Mattoo,Amrita Narlikar

A war-like state and a bond to the rescue

Rangarajan Mohan Kumaramangalam

Activists in Commack, New York calling for an end to the lockdown in the State, in a rally held earlier this month.

Fear and loathing in the land of the free

Narayan Lakshman

Everyone wants a good stimulus

Srivatsa Krishna

Rent control amidst pandemic

Swastik Harish,Rasha Lala

Slow release: On lockdown 3.0

No comfort in numbers: On Bengal’s coronavirus cases

Pandemics without borders, South Asia’s evolution

Kanak Mani Dixit

India’s disease surveillance system needs a reboot

“The lockdown imposed by the government has exposed the deep fault lines in India’s labour market.” Migrant workers wait to board a special train to return to Agra from Ahmedabad. AP

No relief for the nowhere people

Ravi Srivastava

Presidents of Brasil, Jair Bolsonaro, Russia, Vladimir Putin, China, Xi Jinping, South Africa, Cyril Ramaphosa, and India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi pose for a family photo as they arrive for the BRICS summit in Brasilia, Brazil November 14, 2019. REUTERS/Ueslei Marcelino

BRICS against COVID-19

Recovering early: On India’s COVID-19 patients

It’s about food, nutrition and livelihood security

M.S. Swaminathan ,Nitya Rao

Taiwan’s coronavirus protocol shows how it is done

Chen Shih-chung

TOPSHOT - In this picture taken on April 29, 2020, an engineer shows a plastic model of the COVID-19 coronavirus at the Quality Control Laboratory at the Sinovac Biotech facilities in Beijing. - Sinovac Biotech, which is conducting one of the four clinical trials that have been authorised in China, has claimed great progress in its research and promising results among monkeys. (Photo by NICOLAS ASFOURI / AFP) / TO GO WITH Health-virus-China-vaccine,FOCUS by Patrick Baert

Needed: a pandemic patent pool

Prathiba M. Singh

Getty Images/iStockphoto

Plasma therapy is no silver bullet

Balram Bhargava

Journalists fill in their details for a swab test in Mumbai on April 16, 2020.

Take care of yourself too, fellow journalists

Strategic shift: On home isolation of mild coronavirus cases

“Once the lockdown is lifted and life resumes, there is bound to be a surge in the number of cases, with no indication that the exponential growth of the virus will stop.” Health workers conducts door-to-door thermal screening in a containment zone in Chandigarh on April 29.

Coping with today, planning for tomorrow

Ramasubramanian,Aruna Mohan

No end in sight: On India’s coronavirus strategy

Vividly imagining the life of migrant workers

Rajeev Bhargava

Traffic policemen offer prayers before breaking their fast along a street in Karachi on April 28, 2020 during a government-imposed nationwide lockdown.

A task for South Asia

Sanjay Nagral,Aamir Jafarey

KARNATAKA: BENGALURU: 14/04/2020: Children downloading Arogya Setu app in Bengaluru on Tuesday. Prime Minister Narendra Modi urged people to download Arogya Setu app (by leveraging technology, it provides important information) to fight for Covid-19. in his speech on Tuesday. India has entered 21-day nationwide lockdown over the highly contagious Covid-19. India is now locked down and loaded in its fight against the COVID-19 (Coronavirus). Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday (24 th Mar 2020) announced a 21-day nationwide shutdown in an effort to break the chain of transmission. Photo Somashekar G R N

Privacy concerns during a pandemic

Suhrith Parthasarathy,Gautam Bhatia,Apar Gupta

Supreme Court, New Delhi.

Unlocking justice in the lockdown

G.S. Bajpai,Ankit Kaushik

Safe return: On migrant worker distress

The outline of another pandemic combat strategy

Pandemic and panic: On Tamil Nadu’s five-city lockdown

Friends and relatives of Kushwaha family who work as migrant workers walk along a road to return to their villages, during a 21-day nationwide lockdown to limit the spreading of coronavirus, in New Delhi, India, March 26, 2020. To match Special Report HEALTH-CORONAVIRUS/INDIA-MIGRANTS. REUTERS/Danish Siddiqui

Protecting the poor from becoming poorer

An aerial view shows the P4 laboratory at the Wuhan Institute of Virology in Wuhan in China’s Hubei Province on April 17, 2020.

Did SARS-CoV-2 begin from a lab?

Ananth Krishnan

Protection for protectors: On safety of healthcare workers

Rapid failures: On antibody testing kits

A woman wearing a protective mask walks past a graffiti during an extended nationwide lockdown to slow the spreading of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in Mumbai, India, April 22, 2020. REUTERS/Hemanshi Kamani NO ARCHIVES. NO RESALES.

The COVID-19 paradox in South Asia

FILE -- Indonesian fishermen head out in waters near Indonesiaâ€™s Natuna Islands, in the South China Sea, Jan. 30, 2020. Indonesian fishermen have seen their catches dwindle since Chinese boats began fishing closer to Indonesian waters. American warships have sailed into disputed waters in the South China Sea, according to military analysts, heightening a standoff in the waterway and sharpening the rivalry between the United States and China, even as much of the world is in lockdown because of the coronavirus. (Adam Dean/The New York Times)

Fishing in troubled waters during a pandemic

Harsh V. Pant,Premesha Saha

Getty Images/iStockphoto

How will India emerge out of the lockdown?

G. Ananthakrishnan

The State, with enough availability of surface and groundwater, will face no shortage, says an expert.

Making doctors wash hands

Double whammy: Migrant workers Mohammed Hakim (in blue mask) and others in south Delhi.

Locked out of cities, homes and livelihoods

Priscilla Jebaraj

Script of unity: On coronavirus and social prejudices

Exploiting a pandemic: On Trump’s immigration policy

The village is still relevant

A time for planetary solidarity

Sujatha Byravan ,Sudhir Chella Rajan

People wearing face masks walk in a shopping mall in Wuhan in China's central Hubei province on April 18, 2020. (Photo by Hector RETAMAL / AFP)

There may be no going back

Ananth Krishnan

A labourer sits next to closed shops as he waits for daily work in Kolkata on April 22, 2020.

No transparency in West Bengal

Focus on the curve: On India’s COVID-19 numbers

Economy in lockdown: On India’s worst case scenario

A shot of hope with a game changing vaccine

T. Jacob John,Prathap Tharyan

Caught in the heightened arc of communal polemics

Karad, 02/04/2020: Traders have created a 'Go Corona' using potatoes at a market during nationwide locdown in the wake of coronavirus pandemic,in Karad,Maharashtra on Thursday. Raju Sanadi

Singing the corona tune

Helping a lending hand: On RBI’s second lockdown stimulus

A season of change: On IMD forecast system

A virus, social democracy, and dividends for Kerala

Across the gulf: On stranded Indian workers

Virtual reality: On telemedicine

Khammam, Telangana, 08/05/2019: Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) workers return home after completion of work at Chirrumarri village in Khammam district on May 08, 2019.
Photo: G.N.Rao/ The Hindu

A blueprint to revive the economy

Praveen Chakravarty,P. Chidambaram

VIJAYAWADA, ANDHRA PRADESH, 20/05/2018: Students writing JEE Mains outside an exam centre in Vijayawada on Sunday. Photo: Ch.Vijaya Bhaskar

A case to use JEE-Main instead of JEE-Advanced this year

Will the aviation industry recover from the pandemic?

Murali N. Krishnaswamy

A French firefighter from Marins Pompiers unit of Marseille wearing protective equipment chekcs the data as he works on a PCR machine on a mobile unit, which can detect the presence of SARS-CoV-2 in the environment after prelevment in Marseille on 03 April, 2020, during the strict lockdown in France to stop the spread of the novel coronavirus. - Already capable of fighting the threat of bioterrorism and poisons like anthrax, the Marseille firefighters are now hunting another adversary, the SARS-CoV-2, a virus that has killed nearly 55,000 people worldwide. (Photo by Christophe SIMON / AFP)

Data-driven reporting during COVID-19

Srinivasan Ramani

Stress test: On revised lockdown guidelines

Disastrous decision: On Trump halting funds to WHO

Cease the distractions, seize the moment

Getting the containment strategy in India right

A billboard in Mumai, Maharashtra.

In India’s response, a communications failure

A jackal stands in the grass in Yarkon Park in Tel Aviv on April 13, 2020. The jackals of Yarkon Park took the paths of the park with greater confidence in search of food during the coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic as a result of the lockdown imposed by Israeli authorities to curb the spread of the disease.

Harmonising with nature

A farmer in Satara, Maharashtra.

End the harassment of farmers now

Colin Gonsalves

A narrowing window: On extension of lockdown

Corona bond: On Eurozone COVID-19 rescue package

Halting the march of rumours

Rajeev Bhargava

Hwang Kyo-ahn (centre), a candidate of South Korea’s main opposition United Future Party, greets his supporters in Seoul on April 14, 2020 during a campaign for the upcoming parliamentary elections.

Polls during a pandemic

Garimella Subramaniam

The pandemic and the contours of a health response

J.V.R. Prasada Rao

“India is not able to get required quantities of test kits, PPE and parts of ventilators through importation.” Central Reserve Police Force soldiers stitch personal protective equipment suits for health workers in New Delhi. AP

Economic liberalisation and its faults

K.M. Gopakumar,Ranja Sengupta

A man wears a face mask as he looks at a statue of Coloso also wearing one in Guatemala City on April 9, 2020.

Invasive, alien, most fearsome

Trade in tatters: On the global slump

Wanted, a collective national endeavour

C Rammanohar Reddy

Disingenuous and no antidote

A woman wearing a face mask walks in front of a drawing of Chinese President Xi Jinping on a wall at the Leishenshan Hospital that had offered beds for coronavirus patients in Wuhan, in China’s central Hubei province on April 11, 2020. (Photo by Noel Celis / AFP)

COVID-19 and the crumbling world order

Activists of 'Aman' - Peace - , a non governmental organization, look at campaign posters during a street performance against domestic violence in Kolkata, 26 November 2007. Some one hundred women activists took part in the road show to stop domestic violence against women during which they alleged that some 7850 women are killed every year in Indian homes by their family members. AFP PHOTO/ Deshaklayan CHOWDHURY

Women’s safety during lockdown

Jayanthi Natarajan

Lives and livelihoods: On economy after lockdown

Stage fright: On denying community transmission

Team India and winning the pandemic battle

K. Srinath Reddy

In time of need: On hydroxychloroquine export

Global gross domestic product plunge from COVID-19 virus fear, world investment price fall down or collapse from outbreak of Coronavirus, GDP economy graph chart fall down from Virus pathogen impact.

Will COVID-19 affect the course of globalisation?

Finding a scapegoat in WHO

A virus-themed globe is seen at a traffic signal in Hyderabad on April 9, 2020.

Curating news for children during pandemic

T. Krithika Reddy

Migrant workers and their family members line up outside the Anand Vihar bus terminal in New Delhi on March 28, 2020.

A time for extraordinary action

T. Jayaraman,Tejal Kanitkar

For better use: On MPLADS funds

Needed, greater decentralisation of power

Suhrith Parthasarathy

A key arsenal in rural India’s pandemic fight

Preparing for exit: On lifting the lockdown

Sanctions and pandemic: On America’s Iran policy

‘A script of action, responsibility and compassion’: Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot writes on Rajasthan’s fight against COVID-19

Taking a long view of the pandemic fight

Jaipur:07/04/2020:Women police officials of the Nirbhaya Squad of Jaipur Police Commissionerate constables relaxing briefly under the temporary shades of kiosks after the long duty hours at Choti Chaupar in the Walled City of Jaipur on Tuesday. 07/April/2020 --Photo: Rohit Jain Paras

Ten questions posed by the virus

Varghese K. George

Swiggy delivery men chat along a street in Mumbai on April 7, 2020.

A different economic approach

Workers prepare personal protective equipment for medical staff at a workshop in Kolkata on April 4, 2020.

Why healthcare workers above 60 should be ‘benched’

Soumyadeep Bhaumik,Giridhara R. Babu

Enemy at the gates: On Kerala-Karnataka border row

NEW DELHI, INDIA - MARCH 27: An Indian hawker covering his face with a protective mask and wearing surgical gloves rides his vegetable cart down an alley, as nationwide lockdown continues over the highly contagious coronavirus (COVID-19) on March 27, 2020 in New Delhi, India. India is under a 21-day lockdown to fight the spread of the virus and while security personnel on the roads are enforcing the restrictions in many cases by using force, the workers of country's unorganized sector are bearing the brunt of the curfew-like situation. According to international labour organisations 90 percent of India's workforce is employed in the informal sector and most do not have access to pensions, sick leave, paid leave or any kind of insurance. Reports on Thursday said that Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government is preparing a massive bailout for the underprivileged sections of the country and will hand over the aid through direct cash transfers. (Photo by Yawar Nazir/Getty Images)

Reducing farm distress during a pandemic

A prelate wearing a face mask holds a smartphone and a palm branch prior to the Pope's Palm Sunday Mass behind closed doors in St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican on April 5, 2020.

Why everyone should wear masks

The criticality of community engagement

Soham D. Bhaduri

A niggardliness that is economically unwarranted

Prabhat Patnaik

The spectre of a post-COVID-19 world

Light and sound: On Narendra Modi’s 9-minute light ceremony

A million and counting: On global coronavirus spread

Safe forests, safe people: On diseases of animal origin

Getty Images/iStockphoto

Quarantine and the law

L.S. Sathiyamurthy

Getty Images/iStockphoto

Making the private sector care for public health

A man lies under the art installation “Horizon” by Muafah binte Amran at Marina Bay in Singapore on April 2, 2020, as his face mask is seen beside him.

Looking east to contain COVID-19

Members of the medical staff listen as Montefiore Medical Center nurses call for N95 masks and other ‘critical’ PPE to handle the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic on April 1, 2020 in New York. The nurses claim “hospital management is asking nurses to reuse disposable N95s after long shifts” in the Bronx.

Limits to rugged individualism

Narayan Lakshman

Uncritical endorsement: On exodus of migrant workers and the Supreme Court

Beyond the blame game: On the Tablighi Jamaat episode

A long road: On India’s 21-day coronavirus lockdown

The missing notes: On politics and the fight against COVID-19

China’s zero: On China’s lead in containing coronavirus

Unprecedented step: On Wuhan lockdown

The return of the expert

Rajeev Bhargava

Policeman line concept. Police officer icon on blue background 10 eps

Lessons from Hubei

Migrants walk to their villages after the announcement of the nation-wide lockdown near the Delhi-U.P. border. PTI

A pandemic in an unequal India

People wearing protective masks walk along Ramlala market in Ayodhya on March 14, 2020.

Faith can’t override public health

Devising a people-centric response to COVID-19

Pinarayi Vijayan

Karnataka CM writes on how the State is fighting the pandemic

B.S. Yediyurappa

Tamil Nadu CM writes on how the State is stopping the pandemic in its tracks

Edappadi K. Palaniswami

The hunt for a cure begins with telling the truth

COVID-19 and a city’s anatomy

Sriram Lakshman

Long live the nation-state

A healthcare worker wearing protective face mask and suit adjusts a paper crown given to them by police officers near the entrance of the emergency unit at 12 de Octubre hospital during the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak in Madrid, Spain March 28, 2020. REUTERS/Sergio Perez

The COVID cycle

Representational image.

Coronavirus | The worst of times, the best of times

Vivek K. Agnihotri

It’s also a fight against punitive measures

T.P. Sreenivasan

The age of the neoliberal virus

The deep void in global leadership

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Thinking national, acting local

Every man is a part of the main

Beyond social distancing to fight COVID-19

Kalinga Tudor Silva

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The curious case of Meghalaya’s COVID-19 relief package

A dose of realism: On COVID-19 surge post Omicron

Not mild for all: On community transmission of Omicron

Tamil Nadu, Chennai, 23/01/2022 : For City : Staff nurse wearing a Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) attending a Oxygen support Corona virus positive patient for admission at Omandurar Government Medical College Hospital, Chepauk in Chennai on Sunday. Photo : Jothi Ramalingam .B / The Hindu

What approach should we adopt to treat Omicron?

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An epidemiologically sound testing strategy

Chandrakant Lahariya

People showing the correct way to wear an N-95 mask.

The best masks to ward off Omicron

Madhukar Pai,R. Subramanian

No room for complacency: On tackling Omicron

Exception and exemption: On Australia denying entry to Novak Djokovic

Fair and safe: On five State elections amid COVID-19 surge

Prepare for the worst: On Omicron response

Medical icon. Vial with vaccine and medicine. Prescription or license. Injection.

Vaccines, boosters and some hard talk

An Indian health worker prepares to administer the Covishield vaccine for COVID-19 to a man at a marketplace in New Delhi, India, Thursday, Dec. 30, 2021. In India, which has been getting back to normal after a devastating COVID-19 outbreak earlier this year, omicron is once again raising fears, with more than 700 cases reported in the country of nearly 1.4 billion people. The capital, New Delhi, banned large gatherings for Christmas and New Year's, and many other states have announced new restrictions, including curfews and vaccination requirements at stores and restaurants. (AP Photo/Altaf Qadri)

Should vaccination be made mandatory?

Serena Josephine M.

Maximising the boost: On mixing COVID-19 vaccines

COVID-19 Vaccine Certificate Icon. Vaccination Document. Vector Illustration

Put out the data, boost the dose of transparency

Chandrakant Lahariya

More, and for more: On COVID-19 vaccines for children and boosters for the aged

A shot in the arm: On new modes of COVID-19 treatment

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Simple ways to better counts of Omicron in India

Warning bells: On Omicron cases in India

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Reflections on flying blind into the storm

Gagandeep Kang,Gautam I. Menon

Securing the young: On COVID-19 vaccines for children and booster shots

A measured response: On the Omicron threat

Boosters short: On third COVID-19 vaccination dose

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The Omicron response is not making sense

Chandrakant Lahariya,Angelique Coetzee

Limited gains: On Omicron risk

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Coronavirus | Opeds and editorials

Here is a collection of our key editorials and opinion pieces on the COVID-19 pandemic, bringing a range of perspectives to the fore.

April 02, 2020 01:24 pm | Updated August 11, 2022 01:03 am IST

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Migrant workers in Ghaziabad waiting to board a bus to their respective villages during a nationwide lockdown due to the coronavirus pandemic, on March 29.

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