What is contact tracing?
Context As the number of coronavirus cases in India increases, authorities in different states are relying on contact tracing, a concept in epidemiology (the study of the distribution and determinants of health-related…
What is a pandemic?
Context The World Health Organization (WHO) declared the COVID-19 outbreak a pandemic. What is a pandemic? Simply put, a pandemic is a measure of the spread of a disease. When a new…
COVID-19 a ‘notified disaster’
Context the Ministry of Home Affairs decided to treat COVID-19 as a notified disaster for the purpose of providing assistance under the State Disaster Response Fund (SDRF). Till now, 83 have tested…
Coronavirus testing in India, elsewhere
Context The Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) announced that it would start testing influenza patients without any travel history or contact with novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) for signs of community transmission, terming…
Are there two types of COVID-19 viruses?
Context A preliminary study conducted by researchers from Peking University’s School of Life Sciences and the Institut Pasteur of Shanghai, which is under the Chinese Academy of Sciences, has found…