Three major scientific controversies about coronavirus

On some subjects, scientists are still trying to get the full picture.

Manal Mohammed, The Conversation

· 2 hours ago

Explainer: What is antigen testing? And why are Indians states using it more and more?

The Indian government has cleared the use of antigen testing, but with the proviso that if the result comes negative, a RT-PCR test must be done.

IndiaSpend Team

· 11 hours ago

UK researchers found coronavirus in a cat – but there’s no reason to be worried about your pet

While about 18 million people around the world have tested positive for Covid-19, only a handful of infected cats have been detected.

Willie Weir, The Conversation

· Yesterday · 09:30 pm

From smaller idols to larger tanks, how Covid-19 is changing Mumbai’s Ganesh festival

Keen to prevent the spread of the coronavirus, Maharashtra government has imposed a slew of restrictions on festival organisers this year.

Aarefa Johari

· Yesterday · 09:00 am

This map shows where Mumbai’s migrant workers headed after trains finally started again

More than half of the passengers (373,287) and an equal proportion of trains (245) headed to Uttar Pradesh.

Simpreet Singh

· Aug 07, 2020 · 03:30 pm

Viral histories: Will Covid-19 help us generate new thinking?

Even as our collective breaths are being attacked, a newer politics and a newer sociality may yet emerge.

Dilip M. Menon

· Aug 07, 2020 · 07:30 am

Middle class incomes were worst hit by India’s harsh coronavirus lockdown

While a large proportion of middle class household incomes were growing in 2019, the lockdown seems to have frozen that growth.

Shoaib Daniyal

· Aug 07, 2020 · 06:30 am

Why herd immunity may not be the perfect solution to coronavirus

A complication is the possibility that people can catch the novel coronavirus more than once.

Adam Kleczkowski, The Conversation

· Aug 06, 2020 · 11:30 pm

A mapping technology is helping India’s healthcare sector in the fight against coronavirus

It can be used to track cases in the neighbouring area or check the availability of beds and ventilators at health centres.

Ananya Bhattacharya, qz.com

· Aug 06, 2020 · 01:30 pm

Doctor’s prescription: We’ve warned everyone about Covid-19 perils. Now we must change the narrative

We need to move towards ‘normalising’ our lives around the disease.

Akshay Baheti

· Aug 04, 2020 · 07:30 am

How Ganjam – and not capital Bhubaneshwar – became Odisha’s Covid-19 hotspot

The district saw massive in-migration from Gujarat, particularly Surat.

Arunabh Saikia

· Aug 04, 2020 · 06:30 am

After contracting Covid-19, most Indian ministers are being treated in private hospitals

They include chief ministers of Karnataka and Madhya Pradesh.

Scroll Staff

· Aug 03, 2020 · 07:00 am