Nicotine may not prevent coronavirus infection, WHO cautions
Even as French researchers hypothesise that nicotine reduces the risk of novel coronavirus infection by preventing the virus from binding
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Coronavirus: How Kerala achieved the much acclaimed zero cases
While active involvement of all the stakeholders who compliment each other especially during the crisis has worked in Kerala’s favour,
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Keeping the coronavirus numbers artificially low by testing fewer people will be counterproductive
It is surprising that West Bengal government, which was initially quite proactive on several fronts to tackle COVID-19, became diffident
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Wait for trial results before using BCG vaccine for COVID-19, Tedros writes
Tedros and others caution that using BCG vaccine on health-care workers for COVID-19 should be only after safety and efficacy
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Can we rely on natural herd immunity to end COVID-19 pandemic?
All previous influenza pandemics — 1918 Spanish flu, 1957 Asian flu, 1968 Hong Kong influenza, and 2009 H1N1 — came
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Coronavirus: Lessons India should have learnt from Singapore’s dormitory spread
It took just 12 days for novel coronavirus cases to double to two million and another 12 days to cross
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Substantial coronavirus spread seen before symptoms show up
A study published in Nature Medicine found that people infected with novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) start shedding the virus two-three days
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Coronavirus: Randomised, control trial shows hydroxychloroquine does not reduce viral load
Results of a randomised, control trial using hydroxychloroquine drug in 150 COVID-19 patients show that the drug does not reduce
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Coronavirus: U.S. halting funding for WHO will have disastrous consequences
Faulting the WHO for imaginary failings cannot help Mr. Trump wash his hands of many administrative failures in containing the
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Coronavirus: Trump finds a scapegoat in WHO
After blaming coronavirus as democrats’ new hoax, and calling the microbe as “China virus”, WHO has now become Mr. Trump’s
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Hydroxychloroquine study: Publisher expresses ‘concerns’ about the paper
The journal that published a paper claiming that hydroxychloroquine had “significant” success in treating COVID-19 patients now has an expression
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Novel coronavirus can be transmitted even before symptoms show up
Even as WHO maintains that risk of getting infected from people not exhibiting any symptoms is low, a few studies
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Coronavirus cases cross one million without counting asymptomatic ones
On April 2, novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) cases crossed one million and deaths passed 50,000. Besides missing out people with mild
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