Tag: covid-19

India’s foreign ministry asks some officials to quarantine after two positive for virus

NEW DELHI – At least two people working at India’s foreign affairs ministry have tested positive for COVID-19, and the government has asked several officials to self quarantine as a precaution, according to a source and internal e-mails seen by Reuters. One person who tested positive worked as […]

Science and Technology in finding solutions to combat COVID-19

‘Hackathon’ for computational drug discovery is being undertaken: Professor K. Vijay Raghavan open view news desk NEW DELHI, MAY 28: At a media briefing here today, Dr. Vinod Paul, Member NITI Aayog and Professor K. Vijay Raghavan, Principal Scientific Adviser to the Government of India, summarised activities on […]

Nations reopen yet struggle to define ‘a new normal’

ROME — As nations around the world loosen coronavirus restrictions, people are discovering that the return to normal is anything but. Schools, offices, public transportation, bars and restaurants are now on the front lines of post-lockdown life — back in business, in many cases, but not business as […]

Fauci warns of ‘suffering and death’ if US reopens too soon

WASHINGTON — Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation’s top infectious disease expert, is warning Congress that if the country reopens too soon during the coronavirus pandemic, it will result in “needless suffering and death.” Fauci is among the health experts testifying to a Senate panel. His testimony comes as President […]

Expert warns many countries are driving blind as they reopen

NEW YORK — India’s trains will start rolling again and millions in the Philippines will be able to leave their homes, even as an expert warns that many countries are driving blind as they reopen because they haven’t set up strong systems to track new outbreaks of the […]

Remembering humanity's triumph over a virus, 40 years on

As scientists scramble for a COVID-19 cure and vaccine, the world marks on Friday a pertinent anniversary: humanity’s only true triumph over an infectious disease with its eradication of smallpox four decades ago. On May 8, 1980, representatives of all World Health Organization (WHO) member states gathered in […]

COVID-19 to cause record emissions fall in 2020: IEA

COVID-19 is expected to cause global energy emissions to fall a record eight percent this year due to an unprecedented drop in demand for coal, oil and gas, the International Energy Agency said Thursday. The IEA’s Global Energy Review was based on an analysis of electricity demand over […]

PM interacts with CMs to plan ahead for tackling COVID-19

Lockdown has yielded positive results, country has managed to save thousands of lives in the past 1.5 months: PM Our aim must be rapid response, need to follow mantra of ‘do gaz doori’: PM PM said that efforts of states should be directed towards converting the red zones […]

Britain launches COVID-19 vaccine study, latest in race

Testing of an experimental COVID-19 vaccine began in healthy volunteers in Britain Thursday, the latest in a cluster of early-stage studies in search of protection against the coronavirus. University of Oxford researchers gave injections to volunteers in a study that eventually aims to include hundreds in hopes of […]

Avigan: antiviral being tested for coronavirus patients

It is approved for use in flu outbreaks and has been deployed to treat Ebola, but now Avigan is being trialled as a potential coronavirus treatment. Here are some questions and answers about the anti-viral medication: What is Avigan? Avigan is the brand name of the drug favipiravir. […]

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