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[ad_1] KOLKATA: Hitting the city streets for the fourth consecutive day, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Friday reviewed the lockdown situation at two south Kolkata localities and urged residents to stay at home. She also said that it was heartening that more than 100 people have recovered from …

[ad_1] NEW DELHI: The Home Office on Friday formed four more Inter-Ministerial Central Teams (IMCTs) to assess the “dire” situation of Covid-19 at emerging hot spots of Ahmedabad and Surat in Gujarat, Hyderabad in Telangana and Chennai in Tamil Nadu. In addition, the IMCT for Mumbai will conduct an on-site …

[ad_1] After reports that French researchers were planning clinical trials to see if nicotine patches could help prevent the incidence of COVID-19, after research showing that fewer smokers get the disease compared to nonsmokers, the government French has banned online sales of nicotine products for fear of an increase in …

[ad_1] NEW DELHI: Union Human Resources Development Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal congratulated the IIT Delhi team of scientists involved in developing the Covid-19 probe-free real-time PCR diagnostic kit. Amit Khare, secretary, MHRD; Ramgopal Rao, director, IIT-Delhi, and a team of IIT scientists led by Professor Vivekananad Perumal and Professor Manoj Menon …

[ad_1] The Dutch Eredivisie season has ended with immediate effect, meaning that the leaders of the Ajax league have been denied the title. Reuters Photo HIGHLIGHT Ajax topped the Eredivisie standings, ahead of AZ on goal difference It is the first time since 1945 that there will be no league …

[ad_1] Enlarge / / A COVID-19 blood test is administered outside Delmont Medical Care on April 22, 2020 in Franklin Square, New York. The test identifies antibodies against the coronavirus. Frustrated statisticians and epidemiologists flocked to social media this week to report substantial flaws in two widely publicized studies trying …

[ad_1] KOLKATA: Hitting the streets of the city for the fourth consecutive day, Chief Minister of West Bengal Mamata Banerjee reviewed the lockdown situation in two towns in southern Calcutta on Friday and urged residents to stay home. He also said it was encouraging that more than 100 people have …

[ad_1] An experimental COVID-19 vaccine protected the monkeys from contracting the viral infection, according to an unrevised report. The new vaccine has now entered clinical trials in china to test the drug in humans. Although the animal study, published April 19 in the prepress database bioRxiv, not formally reviewed, scientists …

[ad_1] NEW DELHI: Union Human Resources Development Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal congratulated the IIT Delhi team of scientists involved in developing the Covid-19 probe-free real-time PCR diagnostic kit. Amit Khare, secretary, MHRD; Ramgopal Rao, director, IIT-Delhi, and a team of IIT scientists led by Professor Vivekananad Perumal and Professor Manoj Menon …

[ad_1] It appears the world was unprepared for a novel coronavirus, despite historical precedents. Dave Elder provides some insight on the disease and what the pharmaceutical community is doing to tackle the pandemic. GLOBALISATION inevitably leads to more rapid spread of disease, which will in turn facilitate global pandemics.one Infectious …