Abhishek De

International Flights Resumption: The International Air Transport Association (IATA) has recently projected that global passenger traffic will not return to pre-Covid-19 levels until 2024, a year later than previously estimated

Covid-19 testing types, process: While one test uses the gene-editing technique called CRISPR to spot SARS-CoV-2, another uses a technique for scanning the genetic code to see if someone has contracted the virus.

International Flights Resumption: Flight operations have resumed in Europe, Mexico, the Caribbean, and some Pacific island nations while India has formed air bubbles with US, Germany and France

Coronavirus (COVID-19) Vaccine price, availability: Vaccines of Oxford University-AstraZeneca, Moderna and Pfizer are undergoing late stage trials and may be launched by year-end. Here is how much they may cost

India Domestic Flights Fares: Keeping in mind the increase in Covid-19 cases, the Union Aviation Ministry has extended restrictions on domestic flights till November 24, including the cap on airfares.

N95 masks Coronavirus: The Health Ministry said N95 masks with valved respirators do not prevent the coronavirus from spreading out and are "detrimental" to the measures adopted for its containment

Coronavirus (COVID-19) Cases in Southeast Asian nations: Vietnam has not recorded a single fatality and has gone about three months without a case of community transmission

Coronavirus (Covid-19) Symptoms, Treatment: Till now, 12 symptoms of Covid-19 have been identified and the World Health Organisation has acknowledged airborne spread of the novel coronavirus

Nasal coronavirus (Covid-19) vaccine: Several research groups and firms, including in the United States, Canada and India, are working on nasal coronavirus vaccines.

Those who have registered with the forum include fresher-level employees who used to earn between Rs 10,000 to Rs 15,000 to even employees who were part of the higher management and co-founders of startups, having a salary of Rs 20-30 lakh.

US Coronavirus cases: On Saturday, the US reported 66,627 cases, the highest daily spurt in infections since the pandemic began, raising the country's total to nearly 3.185 million, according to data compiled by Johns Hopkins University

Coronavirus parties in the US: Over the past few weeks, there have been several parties in the city of Tuscaloosa and surrounding areas, with authorities only recently beginning to crack the whip.

International flights Resume: India looks to resume commercial international passenger flights in a phased manner from next month.

Covid-19 testing types, process: With India's strategy to combat Covid-19 being 'test, track, and treat', other types of tests like antibody, TrueNat and CBNAAT (tuberculosis tests) and antigen were introduced as the ICMR faced a backlash for lack of testing.

Coronavirus (Covid-19) Medicine Latest Update: Companies have launched generic versions of Remdesivir and Favipiravir to aid in the treatment of Covid-19, in specific cases, while UK has authorised the use of steroid dexamethasone.

Coronavirus (Covid-19) Vaccine Latest Update: According to the World Health Organization’s latest count, 13 experimental vaccines are being tested in humans and more than 120 others are in earlier stages of development even as the infections near nine million, including 468,484 deaths.

Coronavirus (Covid-19) Tracker: The most notable resurgence has been in China's capital Beijing, which has reported over 150 infections ever since the city recorded its first domestically transmitted case in 57 days on June 11.

India has taken 134 days to reach 3 lakh cases ever since the first infection was reported on January 30 -- a medical student who had arrived in Kerala from the virus epicentre of China’s Wuhan. At present, India's tally stands at 3,00,519, including 8,872 deaths and 1.52 lakh recoveries.

India fares the worst among the top 10 affected countries when it comes to the average daily number of tests per 100,000 population. India's all-time average daily tests has been 1 per 100,000 population since the outbreak.

As the day of the journey arrived, a flurry of questions went through my mind: what if my area is suddenly declared a containment zone, will my cab be stopped at night (my flight was at 7.30 am), what if the Aarogya Setu app shows red during check-up.

"We want to go out and help people but we can’t. The only option is to listen to the problems and solve through tele-psychiatry intervention."

The Maharashtra government has allowed Mumbai airport to handle 50 domestic flights per day. Kolkata and Bagdogra airports to not operate any domestic flights between May 25-27.

COVID-19 cases in India are taking a longer time to double during the lockdown than they were earlier. A look at nationwide trends, and how widely the doubling rates have varied from one state to another.

SAARC Nations Coronavirus Cases, Deaths: The eight SAARC nations -- India, Pakistan, the Maldives, Sri Lanka, Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, Bhutan -- account for just 1.28 per cent of the world total of 24,80,503 coronavirus cases.