Science communication faced perhaps its biggest challenge during the past year as the SARS-CoV-2 virus rampaged through countries, infecting millions and causing widespread fatalities.
Knowledge creation through research and innovation are paramount requisites for a country on the path to emerging as a global leader.
What is it that drives large sections of the population towards belief in miracles and the paranormal and to support unscientific conspiracies and claims?
Studies the world over have been pointing to an increasing correlation between air pollution and increased risk of COVID-19 disease.
With the COVID-19 onslaught driving the attention of the publics around the world to the science manifested in the viral pandemic, it would be interesting to find out how, if at all, this experience has changed public perceptions about science and scientists.
CSIR has always taken up challenges and developed technologies to fulfil and suit the country’s requirements during different periods of its independent journey, notching up several firsts to its credit.
Digitization of health records and creating an environment for telemedicine form an essential part of strengthening the health infrastructure in the country.
The struggle to really halt and eliminate the virus also rests on the shoulders of the aware, enlightened and responsible populace of the country.
During the past four months, as the SARS-CoV-2 virus continued its rampaging run through most parts of the world infecting millions and causing fatalities in the lakhs, health and healthcare have come into sharper focus and come to occupy the highest pedestal like never before.
Very few of those living today would have experienced, ever in their lifetime, the trying conditions and circumstances thrown up by the Coronavirus outbreak.