Pandemics

Vladimir Putin orders citizens to stay off work for a week starting 30 October in a bid to tackle rising COVID-19 cases

The government task force on Wednesday reported 1,028 coronavirus deaths over the past 24 hours, the highest number since the start of the pandemic

Kim Jong-un berates top officials for ‘great crisis’ in North Korea, failure to prevent COVID-19

North Korea has claimed to have had no coronavirus infections, despite testing thousands of people and sharing a porous border with China

'Sense of euphoria': Metal fans mosh at first UK live music festival since pandemic

Attendees all took COVID-19 tests before the event, and don’t have to wear masks or follow social distancing rules during the festival.

88-year-old artist Robert Seaman finishes year of pandemic ‘daily doodles’

Seaman, who has been fully vaccinated since January, says he’ll “probably kick the bucket” before he runs out of ideas.

WHO could have sounded COVID-19 alarm 'sooner', says independent global panel report

The Independent Panel for Pandemic Preparedness and Response in its report said early responses to the outbreak detected in Wuhan in December 2019 "lacked urgency", with February 2020 being a costly "lost month" as countries failed to heed the alarm

History tells us this won't be last pandemic, says WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus on coronavirus

The WHO director-general also condemned the 'dangerously short-sighted' cycle of throwing cash at outbreaks but doing nothing to prepare for the next one

Pandemics tied to fragmented forests, biodiversity loss? What science says, and India's response

Experts warn loss of ecology will lead to more pandemics, India uses lockdown to dilute environmental laws.

Treat nature right or future pandemics will wreck more havoc than COVID-19 did says UN panel

Seventy percent of emerging diseases — such as Ebola, Zika and HIV/AIDS — are zoonotic in origin, meaning they circulate in animals before jumping to humans.

Diseases like COVID-19 that jump from animals to people driven by habitat loss: UN report

Unsustainable agriculture practices, expansion of infrastructure and resource mining at the expense of wild spaces has severely limited our ability to prevent these diseases.

Category Error: In dealing with a pandemic, people find that 'new normal' manifests in myriad ways

In 'Category Error', writer-painter Amruta Patil marries news-triggered observation with fiction, history, philosophy, against the backdrop of an Indian high rise.