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Dr Chandrakant Lahariya is a general physician, infectious diseases specialist and vaccines expert. He can be reached at c.lahariya@gmail.com
    Covid 19 cases increases day by day in Telangana, A health worker collects a nasal swab sample from a citizens to test for the Covid-19 coronavirus infection at a Fever hospital at Nallakunta in Hyderabad. (Photo:DC)Opinion
    Chandrakant Lahariya | Covid virus hasn’t gone, but risk now is very...

    On November 8, 2022, India reported zero Covid-19 deaths for the first time since March 30, 2020. The daily Covid-19...

    11 Nov 2022 12:00 AM IST

    COVID-19 has been recently responsible for an increase in heart attack cases among young people in India (Representational image)Opinion
    Chandrakant Lahariya | Some heart attacks can be prevented with a few...

    In the last two and half years -- since the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic -- we have heard many news reports of...

    29 Sept 2022 12:07 AM IST

    Tomato fever is not the official name of any disease. (Representational Image)Opinion
    Chandrakant Lahariya | As ‘tomato fever’ emerges, misinformation...

    In the third week of August 2022, the news of the emergence of “tomato flu” or “tomato fever”...

    7 Sept 2022 8:27 PM IST

    A healthcare worker administers a dose of the Covid-19 preventive vaccine to a student in the age group of 12 to 14 years, at a vaccination centre, in New Delhi, Thursday, March 24, 2022. (PTI/Manvender Vashist)Opinion
    Chandrakant Lahariya | At 75, time to focus on a healthier India@100

    With the experience of the last 29 months, many have started to argue that health in India has become a political...

    16 Aug 2022 12:16 AM IST

    This 1997 image provided by the CDC during an investigation into an outbreak of monkeypox, which took place in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), formerly Zaire, and depicts the dorsal surfaces of the hands of a monkeypox case patient, who was displaying the appearance of the characteristic rash during its recuperative stage. (AP Photo)Opinion
    Chandrakant Lahariya | Monkeypox’s challenge: It’s also an...

    On July 23, the World Health Organisation (WHO) declared the monkeypox disease as a “public health emergency of...

    28 July 2022 2:17 AM IST

    Chandrakant Lahariya | Can ‘monkeypox’ disease develop into a pandemic?Opinion
    Chandrakant Lahariya | Can ‘monkeypox’ disease develop into a...

    In the ongoing monkeypox outbreak, it will not be surprising if one or more cases are reported from India as well

    17 Jun 2022 1:21 AM IST

    A health worker collects swab samples of residents for Covid-19 testing, in Gurugram, Friday, April 15, 2022. (PTI)Opinion
    Chandrakant Lahariya | Don’t worry too much as Covid cases surge...

    Most of those tested positive are asymptomatic or mild symptomatic & had got themselves tested voluntarily, for travel...

    20 April 2022 12:38 AM IST

    Students wearing facemasks and face-shields attend a class after the reopening of schools closed as a preventive measure to curb the spread of the Covid-19 coronavirus, at a government girls primary school. (Photo: AFP)Opinion
    Chandrakant Lahariya | A new worry: How we need to ‘live with...

    The daily new Covid-19 cases in the country have come down to around 4,000 to 5,000, the lowest in 22 months since May...

    14 March 2022 3:17 AM IST

    This image provided by Pfizer in October 2021 shows the companys COVID-19 Paxlovid pills. U.S. health regulators on Wednesday, Dec. 22, 2021 authorized the first pill against COVID-19, a Pfizer drug that Americans will be able to take at home to head off the worst effects of the virus. (Pfizer via AP)Opinion
    Chandrakant Lahariya | FDA approval of Covid pill a sign of hope for...

    The US Food and Drugs Administration approved an oral Covid-19 drug Paxlovid. Molnupiravir, too, received emergency...

    24 Dec 2021 12:26 AM IST

    All kindergarten and primary schools will stay shut till March 31 in Tamil Nadu. (PTI)Opinion
    Chandrakant Lahariya | Why primary schools should be the first to...

    The individual benefits are in terms of better jobs and increased family earning in the future

    1 Sept 2021 1:42 AM IST

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