[ad_1] Hyderabad: Almost all countries affected by SARS-CoV-2 are exploring numerous strategies to get out of the blockade. In the past few weeks, a particular approach that has caught the imagination of many and has sparked widespread discussion is the concept of issuing “immunity passports” or “risk-free certificates” to people. …
Read More »Global number of deaths from coronavirus could be 60% higher than reported
[ad_1] The number of coronavirus deaths may be almost 60% higher than reported in official counts, according to a FT analysis of general deaths during the pandemic in 14 countries. Mortality statistics show 122,000 deaths in excess of normal levels at these locations, considerably higher than the 77,000 official Covid-19 …
Read More »UK Vaccine Trial Volunteer Says “Okay” After Death Rumors Online World News
[ad_1] One of the first people to be injected as part of UK human trials for a coronavirus vaccine has said it is “fine” after a fake article about her death circulated on social media. The article claims that microbiologist Dr. Elisa Granato, who participated in the Oxford trial on …
Read More »First woman in vaccine trial ‘okay’ after vile rumors that she had died
[ad_1] A woman who became one of the first humans in Europe to receive a possible coronavirus vaccine says she is “fine” despite rumors that she was dead. Oxford University microbiologist Dr. Elisa Granato was one of two people who were injected on Thursday when human trials began just three …
Read More »As virus blockade decreases, Italy reflects on what went wrong
[ad_1] ROME: As Italy prepares to emerge from the West’s first and most extensive coronavirus lockdown, it is increasingly clear that something went terribly wrong in Lombardy, the worst affected region in Europe’s worst hit country. Italy was unlucky enough to be the first western nation to be hit by …
Read More »As virus blockade decreases, Italy reflects on what went wrong
[ad_1] Rome: As Italy prepares to emerge from the West’s first and most extensive coronavirus lockdown, it is increasingly clear that something went terribly wrong in Lombardy, the worst hit region in Europe’s worst hit country. Italy was unlucky enough to be the first western nation to be hit by …
Read More »Don’t villain bats: researchers destroy Covid-19 myths | India News
[ad_1] BENGALURU: Several researchers from various universities and conservation organizations spread across nine countries, including India, Germany, the United Kingdom, Australia and the USA. Arguing that it is premature and unfair to blame bats or any other animal for the Covid-19 pandemic since the exact origin of SARS-CoV-2 or its …
Read More »Tracking app shows coronavirus was spreading in the UK weeks before the first case was discovered
[ad_1] A coronavirus tracking app has suggested that the disease was sweeping the UK in January, long before the first cases were detected. The COVID symptom tracker, designed by scientists at King’s College London, asks its 2.6 million users to report their symptoms daily, even if they’re OK, to map …
Read More »‘Asymptomatic transmission of the Achilles heel of the COVID-19 strategies’
[ad_1] London: Researchers at the University of California, San Francisco, calling for unprecedented steps to defeat COVID-19, have said that asymptomatic transmission of SARS-CoV-2 has made controlling the spread of the disease even more difficult. SARS-CoV-2 is the virus responsible for COVID-19 that so far has affected 2.9 million people …
Read More »Wuhan’s L strain may be behind Gujarat’s high death rate: experts
[ad_1] AHMEDABAD : Covid-19’s high death rate in Gujarat could be due to the prevalence of the L-type coronavirus strain, which was found to be more prevalent in Wuhan in China, where the outbreak began, experts said. The prevalence of the more virulent type L coronavirus strain compared to type …
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