Coronavirus

One of the most worrisome facts associated with the spread of COVID-19 is that the asymptomatic cases (people who do not show symptoms) may not be identified through contact tracing and tests. Speaking to IANS, Prof K Srinath Reddy, President, Public Health Foundation of India...

New York: Offering its readers a stark reminder of the COVID-19 death toll in Massachusetts, the Boston Globe Sunday filled 16 pages of the paper with death notices. These death notices are paid postings that generally announce a person's death as well as names of...

New Delhi: With the Health Ministry saying that 80 per cent of the Covid-19 cases are either asymptomatic or with mild symptoms, health experts Monday said lockdown and social distancing are the only way to prevent transmission from asymptomatic cases in a populous country like...

San Francisco: Using aggregated public data from a survey conducted by Carnegie Mellon University, Facebook Monday released its first county-by-county map of the US showing prevalence of self-reported COVID-19 symptoms, adding that such maps will soon be released for other countries globally to prevent the...

New Delhi: India warned Monday its citizens living in the UAE against discrimination. The warning came after the Arab countries accused Indians of blaming Muslims for the spread of coronavirus pandemic. The Islamic missionary Tablighi Jamaat has emerged as the super-spreader of coronavirus cases in India....

Stockholm: Many countries have enforced strict implementation of lockdown to prevent the spread of the pandemic coronavirus. Not Sweden though. Keeping public places open The country has not closed down its schools, gyms, cafes, bars and restaurants. They have remained functional during the spread of...

Berlin: Prominent German newspaper ‘Bild’ has drawn up an ‘itemised invoice’ of £130 billion that Beijing ‘owes’ to Berlin for the outbreak of the pandemic coronavirus. The newspaper has said that Germany has suffered huge losses due to the spread of the pandemic and China...

New Delhi: Eighty per cent of people with coronavirus in India are asymptomatic, or does not show symptoms of the infection. This is matter of worry, a senior scientist at the country’s top medical research body told a website. Biggest worry for doctors “Eighty per...

Paris: The worldwide death toll from the novel coronavirus pandemic rose to 1,65,216 Monday, according to a tally from official sources compiled by this agency. More than 2,403,410 declared cases have been registered in 193 countries and territories since the epidemic first emerged in China...

Houston: Researchers have claimed that COVID-19 patients in a clinical trial are responding quickly to ‘Remdesivir’. They said this finding is ‘promising’. However, they also emphasized the need for more trials to test the effectiveness of the anti-viral drug. Researchers from the ‘Houston Methodist Hospital’...