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Scenes like this continue to play out across South Asia, where public health workers fight not just disease, but a parallel epidemic of misinformation that undermines every evidence-based effort. Their tools aren’t just medicines and diagnostics, but trust, patience, and relentless education.Health misinformation takes many forms—from vaccine hesitancy to ...

NEW DELHI, June 2: India’s active COVID-19 cases climbed to 3,961 as of Monday morning, marking a steady rise from 3,758 reported just days earlier, according to the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare. The total number of COVID-19-related deaths since January 2025 has now reached 32, with four ...

A criminal who stole millions from British taxpayers as part of a Covid fraud gang was previously sentenced to death in Pakistan. Sajid Hussain was one of nine men jailed for a total of nearly 50 years for their part in a Birmingham group who swindled small business grants, bounce ...

Goma, Democratic Republic of the Congo – It’s dawn at the mpox treatment site at Nyiragongo General Referral Hospital, north of the city of Goma, and Congolese medics are already hard at work, calmly and efficiently screening, isolating and caring for patients infected with the disease. Two days prior, ...

Traditionally, Muslims bury their dead facing Mecca. Sri Lanka’s majority Buddhists are typically cremated, as are Hindus.Muslim representatives in Sri Lanka welcomed the apology, but said their entire community, accounting for about 10 per cent of the island’s 22 million population, was still traumatised.Family members look at the funeral ...

Students from various organisation protest over the NEET-UG and UGC-NET examinations issue outside Ministry of Education in New Delhi. | Photo Credit: SHASHI SHEKHAR KASHYAP NEET-PG postponed, CBI to probe NEET-UG allegations, NTA chief removed, as panel set up for agency overhaulWith questions being raised about the “integrity of ...

GOLD COAST (AUSTRALIA): We’ve now been living with COVID for well over four years. Although there’s still much to learn about SARS-CoV-2 (the virus that causes COVID) at least one thing seems clear: it’s here to stay. From the original Wuhan variant, to Delta, to Omicron, and several others ...

NewsClick founder and editor-in-chief Prabir Purkayastha has been accused of several grave allegations in a chargesheet filed against him by the Delhi police.According to the chargesheet, the digital news organisation propogated “information warfare” in order to “subvert psyche” on behalf of the Chinese government. This was allegedly done ...

In the bitter cold of Bundelkhand, Rampal, 35, has been out since morning speaking to patients of Lymphatic filariasis, colloquially known as elephantiasis, a neglected tropical disease. His mission? Not only to raise awareness about the Mass Drug Administration program, conducted annually on February 10 in endemic districts but ...

When Scroll began covering the news in January 2014, India was months away from the Lok Sabha elections. Acrimonious debates were taking place about whether Narendra Modi, the principal challenger to the ruling Congress regime, represented a new economic vision or carried the spectre of an old divide.A decade ...