“There was fear lurking inside me, deep fear of the consequences,” says Panusaya Sithijirawattanakul. In August, the 21-year-old nervously stepped onto a stage in Thailand and delivered an open challenge
Ankit Sethia spent a sleepless Friday night trying to procure oxygen for his 50-bed hospital on the outskirts of India’s commercial capital, Mumbai. Only two of the four tanks of
In rural Bangladesh where the condition of medical facilities is still not up to the mark and hence thwarts many people to have access to treatment, wife of a poor
Wild rumours about coronavirus are fuelling opposition to testing in the northern Indian state of Punjab, reports BBC Punjabi’s Arvind Chhabra. “Human organs are being smuggled,” Sonia Kaur, who lives
The main test used to diagnose coronavirus is so sensitive it could be picking up fragments of dead virus from old infections, scientists say. Most people are infectious only for
As US-China relations reach a boiling point, Washington has started to screen Chinese students at airports for technology theft. When Boston Logan International Airport’s announcement asked Keith Zhang to come
Is there a link between poverty, crowded accommodation, and Africa’s bafflingly low infection and death rates from the pandemic? As the number of infections dips sharply in South Africa, and
Head teachers and teachers have criticised the government for “last-minute” guidance on what to do during virus outbreaks and local lockdowns. The guidance for England was published on Friday evening,
The government plans to train up an army of health professionals to be ready to give the coronavirus vaccine, if and when one is shown to work. This could include
Earlier this month, the head of a well-known, privately-owned Chinese conglomerate told his staff that a vaccine for Covid-19 was expected to come to market by November. The boss, whose