COVID-19 Pandemic

Listen To Our Episodes On COVID-19 Pandemic

With India entering a critical phase in the fight against this pandemic, we are amplifying our coverage of this outbreak. Here is a list of episodes we have produced so far which looks at what COVID-19 is, what we know so far about it and India’s preparedness; how health inequities and access to health matter in times of pandemic; what social distancing potentially means for the poor of India.

Sep 30, 2021

Why has Maharashtra topped the number of COVID-19 cases in both waves?
India is experiencing the second wave of COVID-19 cases since the first week of February. India is recording about a lakh cases on an average daily. The wave started from Maharashtra and Punjab, and has now ext...

21 mins

Sep 30, 2021

Vaccinating against COVID-19 Has the vaccine development been a fair and transparent process
This is the second episode in the two-part series on developing COVID-19 vaccines for the Suno India show. In the first episode of the series, we discussed the different stages of clinical trials and how the va...

27 mins

Sep 30, 2021

Vaccinating against COVID-19 How did we get so many vaccines so fast
The Indian government is gearing up for mass COVID-19 vaccinations. The question foremost on everyone’s minds are how were they developed so fast. The first episode of this two-part series for the Suno India Sh...

17 mins

Sep 29, 2021

Why ethics committees are key to good clinical trials
The Covid-19 pandemic has shown us the need for good clinical trials in India – they help us figure out treatments that work and ones that don’t. But some of these studies have been marred by reports of ethical...

24 mins

Sep 29, 2021

COVID-19 testing
COVID-19 tests are done both for diagnosis and for surveillance. With many tests available for testing in various government and private labs, it’s important to understand when to get tested, how these tests ar...

15 mins

Sep 29, 2021

CCMB’s role in COVID19 pandemic management
The confirmed COVID19 cases in India have touched 2.98 million as on date. We at Suno India have been looking at the various efforts being deployed for pandemic management in the country and presenting critical...

44 mins

Sep 25, 2021

Why are most of the medicines being approved for COVID-19 so expensive
There is an urgent need to find a cure for COVID-19. Old drugs that have been developed and approved for one disease are now being evaluated to see if they can be used to reduce the severity and to bring down m...

28 mins

Sep 25, 2021

What goes into the fast tracking development of a vaccine- A virologist explains
With confirmed COVID-19 cases worldwide surpassing 13 million with no sign of it slowing down, scientists are pushing forward with efforts to find and develop vaccines and treatments to slow down the pandemic a...

42 mins

Sep 25, 2021

The need for evidence-based medicine in treating COVID-19
A number of old drugs approved for other diseases are being “repurposed” and tested for their safety and efficacy in COVID-19, in systematic clinical trials. They have emergency approval for use in COVID-19, bu...

48 mins

Apr 29, 2022

Why India and WHO are divided over how many covid-19 killed
The World Health Organisation is in the midst of coming up with COVID-19 excess mortality estimates for all the 194 countries that are its members. The Indian government has been placing objections on the way t...

21 mins