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Sorry everyone for the delay on this article. In the last one, I had mentioned that the players of Kolkata Knight Riders and staff members of Chennai Super Kings had tested positive for COVID-19. The next day, Amit Mishra of Delhi Capitals and Wriddhiman Saha of Sunrisers Hyderabad also tested positive. And the batting coach of Chennai, Mike Hussey had his reports positive too. With these many cases, the IPL was finally decided to be suspended. The BCCI says that they would try and complete the tournament later this year and would ensure that the players reach their homes safely for now. As per the latest updates, the England players have reached London. But the crew from Australia might not be able to return to their country that soon. With the travel ban between India and Australia due to COVID-19 in India, the players would be flown to the Maldives by the BCCI. They would have to quarantine there before flying to Australia next.  India registered 3.82 lakhs new COVID cases on 5t...

Dominating the first half of 2020, Coronavirus is definitely here to stay for a long time. It was nearly 4 months back when my CEO had asked all of us, his employees, to work from home until things get better for resuming work from office again. And in the last team call a couple of days back, he informed us that we might have to continue working from home like this for longer than any of us had expected. Getting straight to the point, this virus has certainly gotten onto the nerves of almost everyone now. With India now reporting around 28000 daily cases with such consistency, all the claims by the Government of having things under control only sound vague. The only ray of hope around is the news of some of the vaccines in development having shown successful results in the trials. A team of IIT Delhi have come up with Corosure, promoted to be the cheapest alternative in the market. Russia is planning to launch a vaccine by mid August. Earlier, ICMR had asked Bharat Biotech to in...

There are enough evidences that support that more than the cure, which often takes time to be developed, it is the human behaviour and awareness that goes the long way in the fight against any deadly virus. Be it Ebola of West Africa around 2014 or Polio that troubled India since late 1970s till 2012, what helped big time in the fight against these viruses were active mass participation of communities and change of behaviour to better the living conditions. To analyze how India should move forward in its fight against COVID-19, let's try and draw some insights from our fight against Polio. In 2009, India reported the 741 Polio cases, more than any other country. The country faced unique challenges in its fight against this virus. Some of the major ones were high population density, poor sanitation, widespread diarrhoea, and reluctance of many communities to accept the vaccine. It was a humongous task for the Government and the health agencies to overcome these constraints so ...