COVID19

In anticipation of a possible surge triggered by Covid19’s Omicron variant, Minhaj Masoodi evaluates the state and status of the infection management in Kashmir in the backdrop of deficits made visible by the second...

Behind the desperation at the official and societal level for halting the spread of Covid19 and deny any space to the third wave, are the countless stories of pain and loss that thousands of...

While the prevention would be the best insurance against the possible resurgence of the pandemic in near future, the government would also need to further consolidate the healthcare infrastructure to it take on, writes...

The transition from teacher-class based teaching to digital education has not been smooth in Kashmir, nor is it helping students to learn, reports Khalid Bashir Gura A class 11 student at a government school, Sahil...

The steep rise in the cost of goods in Kashmir is making it increasingly difficult for the common man to manage two square meals a day. The lower middle class and the poor sections...

Beenish Zohra, a practising dietician and a clinical nutritionist, tells Farzana Nisar that good food plays an important role in building the immune system in the pandemic.  KASHMIR LIFE (KL):  How important is food...

The high-pitch campaign to enforce lockdown is making society’s vulnerable sections to pay for attempts to earn livelihoods for their desperate families, reports Minhaj Masoodi Two days ahead of Eid-ul-Fitr, Faizan (name changed), 25, along...

Amarnath pilgrimage could undo the painstaking efforts to control the virus in Kashmir, writes Riyaz Wani With the annual Amarnath yatra drawing near, the Jammu and Kashmir administration is yet to take a final call...

Overworked, underpaid and vulnerable to infection, around 20,000 ASHA workers are practically the first line of defence against the contagion, especially in the Kashmir periphery. Given that they lack even the basics of rights...

The ongoing pandemic hit the migrant Kashmiri Pandit community in Jammu, UP and Delhi so harshly that many think Covid19 killed more than the militants in 1990 On May 27, a Kashmiri Pandit (KP) activist,...

The pandemic has forced the students enrolled with offshore medical schools to study virtually from home. This is putting a question mark over their competence as future doctors, reports Farzana Nisar It is 6 am...

We took some smart street questions on Covid19 and asked various specialists fighting the pandemic within and outside Kashmir hospitals. The responses made it easier for people to understand that we all have to...

As desperate families go to market, exorbitantly priced oxygen concentrators are making them unaffordable for Covid-19 patients homecare. Now the crisis is that leisure oxygen-generators are being sold for medical oxygen concentrators, reports Saifullah...

It is vital to have Covid19 appropriate behaviour. But it is more important to retain Covid19 as the key priority in the governance policymaking. Right now vaccination is the only way-out, writes Riyaz Wani Jammu...

With Kashmir having massive morbidity and Jammu leading in the mortality, a puzzled government is trying its best to locate the reasons responsible, reports Masood Hussain The entry of the Covid19 causing virus into Kashmir...