Barkha Mathur

World Health Day 2021: COVID-19 has hit all countries hard, but its impact has been harshest on those communities which were already vulnerable, said WHO

As the world celebrates the World Health Day, ministers and politicians took to social media to remind people about the COVID-19 preventive measures like wearing masks, maintaining hand hygiene, practicing social distancing, following government guidelines among others

According to a new report by the Centre for Science and Environment, Delhi has implemented the most ambitious clean fuel policy that has also outlawed coal but it still needs more than 60 per cent cut in annual PM2.5 concentration to meet the national ambient air quality standards

The surge in the country is due to new strains and laxity among people in adopting COVID norms and the situation is exactly like the one in the UK when the virus underwent a mutation around Christmas, said Dr Randeep Guleria, Chief of Delhi's All India Institute of Medical Sciences

Markets that sold animals, dead and alive, in December 2019 have emerged as a probable source of the coronavirus pandemic in a major investigation organized by the World Health Organization

According to the World Health Organisation, people should get a full course of vaccines available to them even if they have had the COVID-19 infection in the past

Here are some of the questions answered by the Union Health Ministry related to the optimal period between two doses of the COVID-19 vaccines and the process of scheduling appointments

According to experts, research is going on to check if the variant, where two mutations come together in the same virus, maybe more infectious or less affected by vaccines

According to an official from Home Department, Government of Uttar Pradesh, the pandemic is far from over and fear around it still exist especially since the number of cases are rising in the state. He added that negligence during Holi celebrations could increase the transmission

According to an analysis done by the United Nations Children's Fund, one in five children globally do not have enough water to meet their everyday needs

There are 17 Sustainable Development Goals that are targeted to be achieved by 2030 but, according to the report of the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and Pacific on the progress of SDGs, the region may not even achieve 10 per cent of these goals in the decided timeframe

According to Poonam Sewak, Vice President, Safe Water Network, people are now becoming aware of the hazards of contaminated drinking water as they have been witnessing the impact of water-borne diseases like fluorosis, jaundice, typhoid among others. Water kiosks like iJal are helping people get safe and affordable water

Apart from natural causes like lightning strikes and heat of the Sun, uncontrollable forest fire disasters are also caused by manmade factors like carelessness, poaching, erratic methods of gathering forest produce and lack of fire safety, say experts

Over the past few weeks, there has been a surge in the number of COVID-19 cases in the country which now indicates that the country maybe facing another wave of the coronavirus pandemic, according to Dr. Randeep Guleria, Director of the AIIMS