Six years after the COVID-19 pandemic, which had claimed over 7 million lives worldwide by April 2024 (figures are no longer being tracked), we are still debating the origins of this novel virus. The ...

Nandkumar M. Kamat In December 2019, a cluster of unusual pneumonia cases surfaced in Wuhan, China. Within weeks, the world was watching. Within months, it was locked down. More than six years ...

This concern is particularly more relevant in South Asia, where recent increases in Nipah virus cases reported in India and Bangladesh suggest more frequent human-bat interactions in the region. Covid ...

Researchers summarize key insights from the world’s first comprehensive investigation into how a pandemic started.

The latest Nipah virus cluster in West Bengal has reignited fears of a high‑fatality outbreak with global reach, even as officials insist the risk beyond India remains low.

China's Wuhan Institute of Virology — the laboratory that has faced intense scrutiny over the origin of the COVID-19 pandemic — is offering to help India respond to a Nipah virus outbreak that ...

In Shanghai at the start of 2020, as the life-changing COVID-19 pandemic erupted, two Filipino diplomats were given an almost impossible, unthinkable and certainly dangerous task: bringing home 100 ...

The incident seems to have triggered a bizarre reaction from President Donald Trump, who the next day threatened or promised ...

Indian carriers have adjusted schedules, gradually resuming long-haul and ultra-long-haul services via alternative routes, while aircraft and crew repositioning continues to restore operational ...

In the case of Covid19, the events in February 2020 in Milan and Cortina d'Ampezzo – the jewel of the Italian Alps – were the origins of the pandemic. Without their role, Covid19 might have been a ...

During the height of the COVID-19 crisis in June 2020, Congress MP Manish Tewari spotlighted concerns surrounding China's ...