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The World Health Organisation (WHO) opened its 74th World Health Assembly on Monday, May 24, and will hold week-long committees and plenary sessions to discuss the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic. Member states will also discuss methods to avoid…
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A Pandora’s box may have been opened up by scientists researching the coronavirus, the agent behind the world’s biggest pandemic and epidemic Covid-19. In a recently published study in the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, a well-acclaimed…
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Facing the various strains of the coronavirus family is not a new thing to the world population. The world has already suffered from the impact of the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS-CoV) outbreak, in 2002, when more than 8000…
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Efforts to find an effective treatment for the Zika virus could get a boost with researchers at the Indian Institute of Technology-Indore (IIT-Indore) identifying some structures in the genetic makeup of the virus that could be used as…
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Like COVID-19, mental health issues do not discriminate and affect people of all ages and all countries gravely. Governments around the world—Canada, the UK, the US and Australia—have recognised that people’s mental health has been severely…
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According to World Health Organisation (WHO) testing is the key to combat novel coronavirus. With large population testing in large number is prohibitive in Indian conditions. Keeping this in mind a low-cost COVID-19 test kit developed by…
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We are facing grave challenge within the country and everyone would agree it is nothing other than COVID-19. When the first case reached Kerala through the returning medical students from China, it was easier for the state to follow up,…
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Marking a monumental moment in the history of the US relations with international organisations, President Donald Trump announced the termination of relations with World Health Organization (WHO). Trump’s announcement on May 29 2020…
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There is no sign of flattening of curve of COVID-19 despite the end of lockdown 4.0 on 31 May 2020. India is witnessing the largest spike in new cases. There are relaxation and relief planned in phased manner, but the current containment…
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World Health Organisation (WHO) has decided to resume hydroxychloroquine and chloroquine (HCQ/CQ) trails after Indian scientists have questioned its earlier decision to halt it temporarily. WHO had stopped the trails based on a study…
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