Learning gaps in reading and writing are real, but many teachers find it even more difficult to get young kids to concentrate and interact with others in class.
Urgent remedial measures are needed to reverse learning losses, as affected students will face weaker prospects for securing employment in the future too.
The Omicron rage in our cities has been because of its high transmissibility and immune escape ability. But what are studies saying about the near future?
Senior child psychiatrist Dr Savita Malhotra on the impact of COVID-19 on children, created by various factors, from online education to pandemic stress.
Most parents are anxiously waiting for vaccination for children, so that they may get back to school and other activities. But is that likely, or even advisable now?
At the peak of the crisis, The Supreme Court, and some High Courts, took suo moto notice and passed orders, directing governments to own responsibility and take action.
Extreme temperatures during the summer in India make people with cardiovascular and respiratory diseases more vulnerable, as does COVID. How can heat impact be mitigated?
Desperate patients were seen making this journey, even as headlines screamed that the second wave had spread from big cities to smaller towns and villages.
Most doctors have used various drugs and therapies on COVID patients at one point or the other, but feel that each actually has a limited role to play.
The ideological mooring of the union government has led to the systematic dismantling of the public health sector and made way for commoditisation of healthcare.
