Month: March 2020

Not all or nothing: Anti-virus lockdowns could lift slowly

WASHINGTON — For the millions of Americans living under some form of lockdown to curb the spread of the coronavirus, not knowing when the restrictions will end is a major source of anxiety. Will life events — weddings, funerals, even just simple nights out with friends — be […]

Virus test results in minutes? Scientists question accuracy

MADRID — Some political leaders are hailing a potential breakthrough in the fight against COVID-19: simple pin-prick blood tests or nasal swabs that can determine within minutes if someone has, or previously had, the virus. The tests could reveal the true extent of the outbreak and help separate […]

A New York doctor’s story: ‘Too many people are dying alone’

NEW YORK — As an emergency medicine physician in New York City, Dr. Kamini Doobay has always known that death is part of the territory when trying to care for the city’s sickest. But it hasn’t always been like this — patients hit the hardest by the coronavirus, […]

Couples in quarantine: Stress, anxiety, fear of the unknown

The 60-something husband works in the food industry and still insists upon leaving every day for work, saying he needs to keep his business afloat. His frightened wife desperately wants him to stay home. For another couple, in the midst of a separation, the bitterly fought issue is […]

EMIs put on hold, big-bang interest rate cut as RBI joins fight against coronavirus

Mumbai, Mar 27 (PTI) The RBI on Friday put on hold EMI payments on all term loans for three months and cut interest rate by steepest in more than 11 years as it joined the government effort to rescue a slowing economy that has now got caught in coronavirus […]

Number of coronavirus cases 724 in India, death toll 17: Health Ministry

New Delhi, Mar 27: The death toll due to COVID-19 rose to 17 in the country on Friday and the number of coronavirus cases climbed to 724, according to the Health Ministry. In its updated figures at 9.15 am, the ministry stated that four deaths were reported from Maharashtra […]

Xi tells Trump China and US must ‘unite to fight virus’

Beijing, Mar 27: China and the United States should “unite to fight” the deadly coronavirus pandemic that has ravaged the globe, said President Xi Jinping in a call with his US counterpart on Friday, according to state media. The two countries have clashed in recent weeks over the virus, […]

Brazil’s Bolsonaro exempts churches from quarantine

Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro decreed Thursday that places of worship are “essential services” that must be exempted from coronavirus confinement orders, the far-right leader’s latest jab at aggressive containment measures. The decree, published in the government diary, adds “religious activities of any kind” to the list of exempted […]

Dogs being trained to sniff out COVID-19: charity

A British charity has teamed up with scientists to see whether dogs could help detect COVID-19 through their keen sense of smell, they said on Friday. Medical Detection Dogs will work with the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) and Durham University in northeast England to […]

Will Coronavirus Pandemic Diminish by Summer?

This study is conducted at MIT and was published in SSRN on March 19, 2020 and is reproduced here with a link for the viewers to access it conveniently to know more about whether the spread of Coronavirus has possessed any relation with the weather pattern https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3558757 Qasim […]

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