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There are around 2.2 billion children in the world; which is approximately 28% of the world’s population. COVID-19 has impacted the lives of people around the world including children and adolescents in an unprecedented manner. This pandemic and lockdown has …

More than half a million people have died from COVID-19 globally. It is a major tragedy, but perhaps not on the scale some initially feared. And there are finally signs that the pandemic is shuddering in places, as if its …

For last few weeks, the concept of herd immunity is making headlines in the international media with reference to COVID-19. Herd immunity is an epidemiological term usually reserved to describe how the population as a whole is protected from a …

Inflammation is the body’s first line of defence against insult. Without inflammation, most of us would not make it past the first year of life. This rapid reaction force fights infections, heals wounds and helps our more sophisticated adaptive immune …