Coronavirus
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Sadness, anger and schadenfreude with India's Covid-19 Crisis
Bolstering (claiming credit), burying (suppressing information) or boosting (to gain credibility) is the kind of image management that is untimely and counterproductive during a crisis.
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Improving testing availability alone not enough; mitigating uptake barriers equally crucial
A comprehensive understanding of the uptake barriers can help public health leaders and healthcare providers craft suitable communications and interventions to improve the overall testing figures
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India blames a virus variant as its Covid-19 crisis deepens
So far the evidence is inconclusive, and researchers caution that other factors could explain the viciousness of the outbreak, which has overwhelmed India's capital so quickly that hospitals are entirely overrun and crematories burn nonstop
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'This is a catastrophe.' In India, illness is everywhere
India is recording more infections per day—as many as 350,000—than any other country has since the pandemic began, and that's just the official number, which most experts think is a vast underestimation
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India's Covid-19 vaccines can definitely be cheaper. Will its makers agree?
As vaccine manufacturers announce higher prices for states and the private sector, we find out that it's actually possible to make vaccines affordable. A look at the factors that influence prices, and who stands to benefit
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US to send vaccine materials and other supplies to hard-hit India, officials say
The announcement, an abrupt shift for the administration, came after Jake Sullivan, President Biden's national security adviser, held a call earlier in the day with Ajit Doval, his counterpart in India, and as India reports higher case numbers each day
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India's health system cracks under the strain as coronavirus cases surge
India is now home to the world's fastest-growing Covid-19 crisis, reporting 314,000 new infections on Thursday and more than 2,000 deaths
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The Covid-19 virus is mutating: Here's everything you need to know about it
As new variants of the coronavirus keep emerging, the same mutations are found to be cropping up again and again in these new variants, making the Covid-19 virus more troublesome and deadly. What are these mutations, what do they do, and what do they mean for the us amid the pandemic. We explain
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Covid-19 second wave: Economists cautious as risk of slowing growth rate looms large
As states roll out curfews and localised lockdowns, economic recovery, especially of the services sector, likely to be further deferred
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How the tiny kingdom of Bhutan out-vaccinated most of the world
Bhutan's rate of vaccination is nearly six times the global average and more than seven times that of India, from where all of the doses were donated
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Can India's vaccine fast-track programme help fight the deadly second Covid wave?
As the government allows emergency use clearance for foreign vaccines to give the pace of inoculation a big push, Forbes India explores what difference it will make to the existing supply capacities