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There is almost certainly a virus inside your body right now. Perhaps even a few. Hopefully, they are not SARS-CoV-2. Instead, these are other viruses, known as latent viruses: tiny hitchhikers that live in our bodies. If you’re healthy, they’re not likely to make a fuss. Perhaps you get a cold sore every now and […]
Kane Tanaka, the world’s oldest person, died in Japan aged 119, on April 19. Japan’s age demographics have been shifting and now the country has entered a “super-aged” society. Senior citizens aged 65 and above account for more than 28 percent of its population. We are quick to attribute good eating habits and exercise as […]
New Delhi: The Economic Survey 2021-22 lists various steps the Union government took last year to battle COVID-19. From vaccination to testing and infrastructure development, it enumerates various points. But the two waves of the pandemic that happened in India are summed up just in these lines: “During the first wave, the cumulative number of COVID-19 […]
