'If you keep on irritating the body by allowing all kinds of pollutants to...
'The pandemic ends only when 70 per cent of the world is vaccinated with two...
'If your oxygen saturation is okay and is maintained after the six-minute...
'We know, from our experience of this virus, that there's something known as...
'Your body will be able to deal with Omicron at any time, but it depends (on...
'If you think you think you're going to booster yourself out of the pandemic,...
'An individual who maybe has had two vaccines, or has had two vaccines, and a...
'In the likelihood that Omicron is circulating, you have a much greater...
'Every time you put on a mask and take the mask off and adjust the fit, you...
'A good 30 per cent of people will still get infected after getting the...
'The virus is constantly, constantly making mistakes when it...
'The immune protection may well wane somewhat, and that's what we have to...
'At the current time, we should be vaccinating all those who are potentially...
'We lost our place in being first in the epidemic, when it hit India so hard,...
'Vaccination is the only safe way to get immunity.'
'It was unfair to expect him to continue to keep on supplying vaccines...
'COVID-19 and diabetes have a very intricate relationship.''People with...
'If the government has not listened to scientists, it must.''It's obvious...
'Wherever the Delta variant is spreading, and the population is not...
'When you are on these drugs, there is a possibility that you come to the...
'You have sufficient protection if you take the second dose of the Covishield...
'The vast majority of people are going to get better.''And the small...
'Unfortunately, during this pandemic, everybody started saying that well,...
'The second wave was more virulent, more aggressive, more transmissible.'
'It is important for all of us to understand to have 1. COVID-19-appropriate...
'Your family, your kith and kin are also under stress, some of your relatives...
'...of the non-availability of doctor expertise or appropriate...
'All the vaccines that are available in most countries, right now, are all...
'If you don't have a strong political leadership, however much expertise a...
'The government had a vaccine from January.''The government should have given...
'We are already exhausted, but we can't give up.''The battle is still on.''We...
'In spite of all the sermonising from the political class, when they come in...
'There are only two bottlenecks for universal vaccination.''One, is...
'People are just putting the mask below their nose.''They are only protecting...
'This year, we know the virus. Last year we didn't know anything about...
'SARS-CoV-2 is going to change to avoid/overcome any thing thrown at it.'
'We really need to look seriously to see if there are any local variants.'
'But to see the effects of that, it will take a week or two more.'
'If you delay the diagnosis even by 24 hours, in that 24 hours individuals...
'If people are not cooperating and do not follow policies laid down by the...
'Prevention plus vaccination is what is going to take us into better...
'At the stage where we are in today in the country, by the time mass...
'It is absolutely important for us to continue to message to people that they...
'But we still have to be very careful.'
'Whenever you roll out: effectiveness is important, operational logistics are...
'What proportion of the people require the vaccine for us to manage this...
'Rolling out the vaccine is not a major challenge in India.'
'We were lucky, in many ways, that we got the disease late.'
'Essentially there are three things the government should be doing: Identify...
'The larger number of patients, who are being affected by COVID-19, are...
'The more seriously ill you are from heart disease, the more seriously ill...
'The COVID-19 virus has the power to quietly enter your body, without causing...
'If our body is able to mount a very successful immune response, we can...
'The most intriguing thing (about COVID-19) is the range of the illness --...
'Some of the longer-term implications of COVID-19 are not related to the...
'People who have already got diabetes or heart disease or high blood pressure...
'Vigilance is the enemy of the virus.''We need to be alert all the time,...
'There will be increases.''There is bound to be, but you have to bear with...
'The social distancing vaccine.''And the mask vaccine.''If you adhere to...
Until we have these (kinds of) patients come down in numbers, the fear, the...
'Every disease has traits and we have found out that actually 99 per cent of...
'COVID-19 comes in, we have our immune response, the immune response...
'The majority of the spread is by people coughing, or sneezing or talking...
'The majority of transmission will be via people who are within two metres of...
'People are sick at home and think that they might have COVID-19, but will...
'We have to be really careful about the unlocking of the city.'
'People are getting admitted to hospital two to three days before their death...
'It will only get worse, definitely, for the next month and one-and-a-half...
'When the virus, in a way, tires itself out, because it is not finding any...
'As people have moved from cities to small towns and villages, they have...
'I can say with confidence that any future SARS-CoV-2 vaccine, developed...
'Smokers are a highly susceptible population during this pandemic.''Health...
'There is just one silver lining: The fatality rate has gone down.'
'It is not the test, but the symptomatic phase in this disease that really...
'Predictions are that numbers will continue to rise till May end and maybe in...
'Testing is a very good strategy if only symptomatic people are transmitting...
'Strengthen hospital capacity, look after patients who need care, primarily...
'It will take time.''It will take time.'
'65 per cent were males.''Age group of deaths: More were seen from age 51 to...
'In Mumbai the mortality rate was reaching a percentage of almost 8 plus in...
'Our preparation is based on ICMR projections, whatever preparations we have...
'If done well, the containment measures can help minimise the impact of the...
'I am proud of Maharashtra and the city of Mumbai, that this is a state which...
'I would like to reassure the general populace that your government, both...
'Mumbai is testing a lot compared to a lot of other places in the...
'We hope that people are aware that even after the lockdown, we will have to...
'Kerala is probably the only state, where (with regard to) the clinical...
'The only idea -- the only idea -- of the shutdown was to buy time.'
'We will need more than 21 days of lockdown for sure.'
'It is a bigger challenge for Mumbai because we have a dense population and...
'Restrict the amount of time you spend on social media.''We have people who...
'Without it, it is going to be much, much, much, much worse.''In the...
What you need to know about the coronavirus.
'Even after this epidemic gets over, we know that there are going to be...
'If we cannot handle an epidemic of that strata, (causing that kind) of...
A virologist answers questions on the deadly virus presently haunting the world.
'India needs to do what India can do, which is to keep the number of cases...