India Coronavirus Dispatch: Decoding why a vaccine offers new Covid hope

Covid-19 claims lives of 104 doctors, Maharashtra reports another surge of over 8,000 fresh cases, and why only 10% Indians believe they face risk-news on how India is dealing with the pandemic

Interview

Recovered Covid-19 patients returning with long-term lung, heart, mental health issues: The impact of Covid-19 lies beyond influenza-like conditions, even for the majority who are not much affected. This disease affects organs beyond the lungs and respiratory tract including the heart, kidney, brain, and the gastrointestinal tract. What more do we know and how can we be alert about these conditions, since some of that impact can be long-term? Read this interview with S Chatterjee, senior consultant, internal medicine, Apollo Hospital, New Delhi, and Jeenam Shah, consultant chest physician and interventional pulmonologist at Saifee, Wockhardt and Bhatia