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Is COVID-19 Vaccine A Public Or Private Good?
Mumbai: The UK has issued emergency-use authorisation to administer the COVID-19 vaccine developed by Pfizer-BioNTech,...
India's Disadvantaged Lack Nutrition, Except We Don't Know How Much
Bengaluru and Delhi: India's national nutrition-specific programmes reach various social groups nearly equally, data...

COVID-19: Insurers Are Denying Policies To Disabled Despite Govt Strictures
New Delhi: Abishek Muthian, a startup coach from Coimbatore, runs a blog on which he has uploaded many hours of phone...

Do We Really Know Why COVID-19 Spikes In Some Places?
Chennai: About 10 months, nine million cases and over 130,000 deaths later, India does not yet know enough about why the...

'Patent Battles Could Choke COVID-19 Drugs Pipeline'
New Delhi: India and South Africa are currently leading a call at the World Trade Organization (WTO) for intellectual...

'COVID Got Global Attention Because It Affected Rich Countries'
New Delhi: India, with 2.4 million tuberculosis (TB) cases in 2019, has the most cases (27%) in the world. With...

'Fast Drug Development Is New Normal Post-COVID'
Mumbai: When the COVID-19 pandemic comes under control, “we are not going back to February of 2020”, in how we control...

Transparency Critical In COVID-19 Vaccine Trials: Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw
Mumbai: Administering a vaccine to all Indians for COVID-19 when it becomes available is a “complex ask”, and needs...
