Pandemic

The European Medicines Agency, the EU's regulator for medicinal products, on Thursday approved the BioNTech-Pfizer vaccine, also known as Comirnaty, for children aged 5-11. It's the first vaccine approved for children under 12 in the 27-member EU.The vaccine has ...

Zarina is a Delhi-based lawyer. She is a single parent to a child with special needs. In 2015, she got a divorce from her husband. It was not an easy decision back then, but now she feels that she has never ...

India is unlikely to see a Covid wave like the devastating second one unless there is a new immune escaping variant but the lower number of cases does not necessarily mean the pandemic is now endemic, several experts said on Friday. ...

The Covid-19 pandemic led to the biggest decrease in life expectancy since World War II, and wiped out years of progress on mortality, according to a study published on Monday by the University of Oxford. The research team assembled ...

India might be entering the endemic stage of the coronavirus pandemic, said Dr Soumya Swaminathan, the Chief Scientist of the World Health Organization (WHO), on Wednesday. According to Dr Swaminathan, the endemic stage would have a low to moderate transmission level, ...

The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) [1] of the United Nations provide a roadmap to member states to achieve shared, sustainable development without letting go of environmental concerns. Goal 2 is "zero hunger" and Goal 5 is "gender equality". But how can ...

While runways and red carpets have taken a back seat for the past year due to the pandemic, the stay-at-home fashion has been doing all the talking. As the entire world stays indoor due to lockdown, the celebrities have been ...