Introduction
Successfully treating severe cases of COVID-19 - whether by oxygenation, the administration of steroids, or the use of ventilators - often requires a patient to be hospitalised. Since the number of beds present in a healthcare system constrains the number of patients hospitals can trea...
Introduction:
The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) started releasing a detailed daily PDF containing information on a variety of indicators such as mortality, containment zones, bed capacity, vaccinations, etc. from June 2020. Such data is useful not only for formulating...
Lack of transparency and alleged under-reporting of COVID-19 testing, cases, and deaths has drawn widespread criticism. The problem of determining the reliability of COVID-19 data in developing countries is even more acute as the pandemic has tested most public health systems. We have investigated t...
Comic#1 : Purpose Limitation, Trust in Government
As we see various technologies deployed for containing the spread of COVID-19, a lack of adequate purpose limitation and other data protection principles will lead citizens to distrust both the government and the technology...
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Figure 1: Timeline of Kerala's responses over 100-day period
Kerala registered India’s first COVID-19 case on 30 January. Over ...
The Liberian handshake is elaborate. It starts with a regular handshake, followed by gripping, finger snapping and fist-pumping. In 2016, as Ebola gripped the nation, this handshake nearly went extinct. India’s namaste may give us some fleeting comfort in the midst of the COVID-19 crisis, ...
Recent data projections (as leaked to the The Hindu) for the number of confirmed COVID-19 cases by the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MoHFW) estimate that the city of Mumbai is likely to have more than 42,000 cases by the end of April and more than 650,000 cases by mid-May.
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