A bottom-up strategy has helped the city municipality maintain their daily caseload and prevent it from spiralling. That the number of new cases in Chennai has hovered around 1,000 for several months now, instead of rising exponentially, is a testament to the municipality’s efforts in containing the virus. This has been attributed to a micromanagement ...

The test kit, named Feluda, is based on gene-editing technology and can deliver highly accurate results within the hour. Its discovery has been called a game-changer. Similar to a pregnancy test, Feluda is a paper-based test for the coronavirus that costs less than Rs 500 and can return results within an hour. Developed in the ...

The Musaffah Survey Campaign has succeeded in achieving a significant decline in coronavirus cases in the area through mass testing and sanitisation. The six-week-long intense testing and sanitisation process in Abu Dabhi’s heavily-populated industrial area of Musaffah is being celebrated as a huge success. The area, with hundreds of thousands of workers, was identified as ...

Even as the number of coronavirus cases is increasing steeply, more people are recovering. The recovery rate for coronavirus cases in the country has been improving steadily since April 15 when it stood at 11.42%. Slowly it climbed to 38.73% by May 19, breaching the 40% milestone two days later. It further improved to 48.19% ...

With the second-highest number of cases in the country, the southern state is embarking on an intensive new strategy for containment zones. In order to control the spread of the virus in the 34 most-affected wards in the capital city of Chennai, the health ministry and city corporation launched an intensive ‘micro plan’ spread over ...