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'Air pollution can lead to cancer'

'If you keep on irritating the body by allowing all kinds of pollutants to...

'Omicron is not the end of the pandemic'

'The pandemic ends only when 70 per cent of the world is vaccinated with two...

'Everybody need not rush to hospital'

'If your oxygen saturation is okay and is maintained after the six-minute...

Beware Of Long Covid!

'We know, from our experience of this virus, that there's something known as...

'We haven't heard the last about Omicron'

'Your body will be able to deal with Omicron at any time, but it depends (on...

'Remember, always, the virus doesn't want to die'

'If you think you think you're going to booster yourself out of the pandemic,...

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'Omicron is a very, very obvious case for boosters'

'An individual who maybe has had two vaccines, or has had two vaccines, and a...

'Everybody's going to get infected'

'In the likelihood that Omicron is circulating, you have a much greater...

Omicron: What Mask Should I Wear?

'Every time you put on a mask and take the mask off and adjust the fit, you...

COVID-19: Take the first available vaccine!

'All the vaccines that are available in most countries, right now, are all...

'Covid response is dependent on leadership'

'If you don't have a strong political leadership, however much expertise a...

'Why did the government delay the vaccine?'

'The government had a vaccine from January.''The government should have given...

Sputnik vaccine shows 92% efficacy

'A good 30 per cent of people will still get infected after getting the...

'Covid variants arise because of our stupidity'

'The virus is constantly, constantly making mistakes when it...

'So far, Covid vaccines protect from severe illness'

'The immune protection may well wane somewhat, and that's what we have to...

'COVID-19 may cause a massacre in India in 2021'

'We are already exhausted, but we can't give up.''The battle is still on.''We...

'None of the politicians mask'

'In spite of all the sermonising from the political class, when they come in...

'Only if you've enough vaccines can you vaccinate...'

'There are only two bottlenecks for universal vaccination.''One, is...

'Vaccine Must Go To Older People First'

'At the current time, we should be vaccinating all those who are potentially...

'Virus is still circulating, older people are at risk'

'We lost our place in being first in the epidemic, when it hit India so hard,...

'Immunity will get us through Covid'

'Vaccination is the only safe way to get immunity.'

'Severity, deaths not higher, but more transmissible'

'People are just putting the mask below their nose.''They are only protecting...

COVID-19: A MUST READ Interview

'This year, we know the virus. Last year we didn't know anything about...

'One must not be scared of the new variants'

'SARS-CoV-2 is going to change to avoid/overcome any thing thrown at it.'

'Vaccine shortage can't be blamed on Adar'

'It was unfair to expect him to continue to keep on supplying vaccines...

COVID-19 and Diabetes: What You Must Know

'COVID-19 and diabetes have a very intricate relationship.''People with...

'Normalcy is far away'

'If the government has not listened to scientists, it must.''It's obvious...

Why are COVID-19 cases increasing?

'We really need to look seriously to see if there are any local variants.'

COVID-19: 'Maharashtra is putting up a fight'

'But to see the effects of that, it will take a week or two more.'

What we LEARNT about COVID-19

'If you delay the diagnosis even by 24 hours, in that 24 hours individuals...

'To escape future waves, we need more vaccination

'Wherever the Delta variant is spreading, and the population is not...

COVID: 'Treatment gets very challenging'

'When you are on these drugs, there is a possibility that you come to the...

Covishield: 'Single dose gives 71% effectiveness'

'You have sufficient protection if you take the second dose of the Covishield...

How we can DEFEAT COVID-19

'If people are not cooperating and do not follow policies laid down by the...

'Vaccine isn't a replacement for preventive measures'

'Prevention plus vaccination is what is going to take us into better...

COVID-19: Why everyone needs to be vaccinated

'At the stage where we are in today in the country, by the time mass...

'You don't need any of these 10 drugs'

'The vast majority of people are going to get better.''And the small...

The MUST READ COVID-19 Interview!

'Unfortunately, during this pandemic, everybody started saying that well,...

'It was challenging to snatch lives from death'

'The second wave was more virulent, more aggressive, more transmissible.'

COVID-19: 'There will be some spikes'

'It is absolutely important for us to continue to message to people that they...

'The epidemic is receding in India'

'But we still have to be very careful.'

'Both vaccines will be similar in immunity'

'Whenever you roll out: effectiveness is important, operational logistics are...

COVID-19: How to Prevent Third Wave

'It is important for all of us to understand to have 1. COVID-19-appropriate...

'So many deaths are happening all around you'

'Your family, your kith and kin are also under stress, some of your relatives...

'People are losing relatives because...'

'...of the non-availability of doctor expertise or appropriate...

The healthy and young may not receive the vaccine

'What proportion of the people require the vaccine for us to manage this...

COVID-19 vaccine can be delivered swiftly

'Rolling out the vaccine is not a major challenge in India.'

'We were lucky we got the disease late'

'We were lucky, in many ways, that we got the disease late.'