[ad_1] NEW DELHI: With 1,755 new cases, the country reported the highest increase in a single day on Thursday. With this, the number of coronavirus cases in India increased to 23,077, an increase of 8.2% from the previous day according to the latest state reports. The number includes 17,610 active …
Read More »Meet the oncologist behind India’s first clinical trial using convalescent plasma to treat coronavirus
[ad_1] For the past few months, the world has been fighting the same enemy: the new coronavirus or COVID-19. Many countries are blocked and life, as we knew it, has been completely turned upside down. Even though there are preventive measures, a cure for coronavirus is the need of the …
Read More »CDC’s TRIPLE list of coronavirus symptoms: loss of taste and smell are official signs of infection
[ad_1] The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has tripled its official list of symptoms for the new coronavirus. Until recently, the federal health agency recorded only three symptoms of the virus on its website: fever, cough, and shortness of breath. However, this past weekend, the CDC expanded its …
Read More »Human trial of coronavirus vaccine begins in the UK
[ad_1] Amid much speculation, the University of Oxford began human testing of a possible coronavirus vaccine on Thursday. If the trial is successful, the vaccine will be available to the public later this year. According to the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, of the more than 100 research …
Read More »Researchers say coronavirus spread ‘under the radar’ in US major cities since January
[ad_1] A new model by the Network Science Institute at Northeastern University in Boston shows the first infections came from China in early or mid-January, and that the virus went undetected because many people were not presenting symptoms. The model suggests that while Americans were still focused on China, about …
Read More »Explained: How far can someone without symptoms transmit Covid-19 infection?
[ad_1] Written by Abantika Ghosh The | New Delhi | Updated: April 24, 2020 6:59:11 am Testing at a facility run by municipal authorities in Mumbai. (Express photo of Ganesh Shirsekar) Two recent figures released on separate days by the Indian Council for Medical Research (ICMR) about people with no …
Read More »What Are COVID Toes? Doctors Explain the New Coronavirus Symptom
[ad_1] Another unusual symptom of the novel coronavirus has surfaced: discolored toes that look swollen and feel painful to the touch. Dubbed as “COVID toes,” the rare symptom presents mostly in younger patients. Doctors explain what COVID toes look like, plus when to seek treatment. Doctors have identified another unusual …
Read More »What are COVID toes? This strange change in your toes could mean you have coronavirus
[ad_1] The symptoms of this virus are increasingly rare. The more we learn about COVID-19, the more we discover that some really weird symptoms may be related to this complicated virus … and this time, it involves your feet. There is a new symptom called “COVID toes” that may be …
Read More »France tests if nicotine could prevent COVID-19
[ad_1] Nicotine may protect people from contracting the coronavirus, according to new research in France, where more trials are planned to assess whether the substance could be used to prevent or treat the deadly disease. The findings come after researchers at a major Paris hospital examined 343 coronavirus patients along …
Read More »Covid-19 strokes: coronavirus is causing strokes in young adults, doctors warn
[ad_1] This is a possible rather frightening side effect of the virus. Until now, doctors have believed that the coronavirus has had a milder impact on young adults, but now, they have learned new information that could change that belief. Now that we are a few months away from the …
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