China has recorded 2,000-3,000 new cases every day for the past week. The country’s zero-COVID policy has resulted in the population having a naive immune profile, because their exposure to different variants has been less compared to the rest of…

On January 27, 2020, India reported its first covid case in the country. And almost 3 years and over 5 lakh deaths later, the disease appears to have become endemic in India. Epidemiologists say a disease is endemic when its…

A large part of the world has locked itself down to protect itself from the novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2). But Sweden didn’t. Now, its ambassador to the US has claimed Stockholm may acquire herd immunity by May. 30% of the Swedish…

A strain of virus SARS-CoV-2 that was isolated from India has revealed a mutation, according to a non-peer reviewed study published in bioRxiv. According to researchers, this can capsize global vaccine development efforts. The strain was isolated from one of…