Research Matters

New digital map helps scientists and health professionals track COVID-19 mutations

Researchers have developed a specialised digital framework, the COVID-19 Virus Genomics Ontology, to help scientists quickly ...
BMJ Open

Cause-specific excess mortality in rural India during the COVID-19 pandemic 2020–2023: longitudinal analyses of deaths in 0.2 million rural health facilities

Objective India had an estimated three to five million excess deaths from causes attributable to SARS-CoV-2 during 2020–2021, ...
Yahoo

India steps up Covid surveillance as new variant spreads

India has stepped up its surveillance measures amid a rise in reported cases of a new coronavirus subvariant, according to officials. Accountable for about 15 to 29 per cent of cases in the US, it was ...
Hindustan Times

Kerala’s Covid-19 graph rises, experts say next few weeks critical

With 25 new fatalities, the death toll went up to 1,003. Despite the high number of actives cases (93,316) and steep hike in test positivity rate (TPR), the death rate is low in the state being less ...