vaccination
Vaccine passports: Bad idea with terrible timing traumatises tourism industry
August 24, 2021
For a long while now, international travellers have been used to finding different queues at immigration counters at various airports, especially in developed world, queues that classify arrivals by origin of their country. Most of the rich countries are clubbed together and then...
Read More
World Hepatitis Day in India: A time to celebrate or lament?
July 28, 2021
For the past 18-odd months, the attention of the entire world has been captured by the Covid-19 pandemic and perhaps rightly so and it is perhaps noteworthy how quickly the governments and the scientists have been able to respond to the crisis and rolled out comprehensive vaccina...
Read More
Patchy progress in ‘world’s largest vaccination drive’
March 6, 2021
India was rather late off the block in the roll out of the vaccination drive, that began after much dilly dallying only on January 16, almost a month after dozens of other countries had already been immunising their populations against the pandemic. There was another major differ...
Read More
World Cancer Day: One in 10 Indians will develop cancer in their lifetime
February 4, 2020
World Cancer Day is organised on February 4 every year by the Union for International Cancer Control (UICC)as an initiative under which the entire world can come together to fight against the global cancer epidemic. The theme for the years 2019-21 has been set as ‘I Am and I Wi...
Read More