-Hindustan Times WHO will be updating the list of priority pathogens—agents that can cause outbreaks or pandemics—to guide global investment, research and development, especially in vaccines, tests and treatments, the UN health body announced. India is working on a plan to effectively combat public health emergencies and disease outbreaks in future, according to people familiar with the matter, even as WHO on Monday announced it will be identifying pathogens that could cause...

-The Telegraph The report prepared by the United Nations states that more men die by suicide, although more women attempt to take their own lives Suicide remains one of the leading causes of death globally. According to the Human Development Report 2021/22, more than seven lakh people die by suicide every year. Worryingly, the world’s burden of suicide mortality is borne by low and middle-income countries — over 77 per cent —...

-TheCitizen.in At least 25,000 children lost their mother to covid in the past year An estimated 1.5 million children in 21 countries, including 119,000 in India, suffered the death of their primary or secondary caregiver between April 2020 and March 2021, according to a recent study. Published in the Lancet medical journal, the study titled ‘Global minimum estimates of children affected by COVID-19’ estimates that 25,500 children in India lost their mother to...

-PTI/ The Hindu 1,19,000 Indian children lost caregivers to COVID-19, says Lancet report The countries with the highest number of children who lost primary caregivers include South Africa, Peru, United States, India, Brazil, and Mexico. More than 1.5 million children in 21 countries, including 1,19,000 from India, lost their primary and secondary caregivers to COVID-19 during the first 14 months of the pandemic, according to a study published in The Lancet. The study funded...

Scientific knowledge has immensely helped in combating the dreadful coronavirus and its spread. Within a record short period of time, scientists (including virologists, epidemiologists, biostatisticians, etc.) and their research outputs helped the commoners to learn more about the SARS-CoV-2 and how it spreads from one individual to the next one. Common people have now come to know how simple techniques and behavioural change like the wearing of N95 masks, maintaining...