DNA TEST TO DIAGNOSE FASTER PNEUMONIA IN PATIENTS WITH SEVERITY OF COVID-19 

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• Analysts have built up a DNA test to rapidly distinguish auxiliary contaminations in COVID-19 patients, who have twofold the danger of creating pneumonia while on ventilation than non-COVID-19 patients

For patients with the most extr...

SOUTH KOREA FACING ACUTE ICU BED SCARCITY FOR CRITICAL COVID-19 PATIENTS

• Korea is facing an acute shortage of intensive care unit beds (ICU) as the country has seen a sharp rise in the number of daily new COVID-19 infections.
• Central and local governments are using painstaking efforts to come up with fast countermeasures. This includes Seoul City th...

HONG KONG CASES AGAIN TAKING AN UPWARD GRAPH CAUSES FEAR AMONG HEALTH AUTHORITIES

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• Hong Kong affirmed 90 new Covid infections as wellbeing authorities cautioned that the roots of about 33% of the cases were untraceable, the most elevated number in 3½ months

Fears of Covid-19 spreading in a public emergency c...

JAPAN’S NATIONAL CANCER CENTER REPORTS 10-YEAR SURVIVAL RATE AT 58.3% FOR PATIENTS

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• Japan’s National Cancer Center reports a 10-year survival rate at 58.3% for patients.
• The Center is said to have collected data since 2000.
• The survival rate of cancer patients in Japan improved by 1.1% upwards from...

MENTAL HEALTH PATIENTS CHAINED ACROSS WORLD, SAYS A RESEARCH STUDY

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• As suggested in a comprehensive and damning report, approximately 60 countries are chaining people undergoing mental illness.

Human Rights Watch says that men, ladies, and kids are consistently shackled or kept in solitary for a long...

Moderna’s potential vaccine generates a good immune response in elderly patients

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• The company tested its vaccine on 10 adults and 10 elderly adults
• The vaccine did not report any serious adverse events

Moderna announced on Wednesday that in an early-stage clinical trial, its potential corona virus vacci...

SCIENTISTS SKEPTICAL OVER CONVALESCENT PLASMA TREATMENT

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• The FDA has issued an emergency use authorization for it  
• President Trump considers it a breakthrough

The Food and Drug Administration issued an emergency use authorization for the convalescent ...

DR. SCOTT GOTTLIEB: CONVALESCENT PLASMA TREATMENT MAY BE HELPFUL BUT NOT ENTIRELY EFFECTIVE

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• In the early stages of the outbreak, convalescent plasma was used to treat corona virus patients
• It was used on a case-by-case basis 

To treat coronavirus patients, the Food and Drug Administrat...

GILEAD COULD GET FDA APPROVAL FOR USE OF REMDESIVIR DESPITE MIXED TRIAL RESULTS

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• Gilead could get FDA approval for use of Remdesivir despite mixed trail results.
• The FDA had approved in May for sale of the drug to be used on an emergency basis for patients with severe COVID-19.
• The company had publis...

MAN ESCAPES FROM A HOTEL IN THE WESTERN JAPAN CITY FOR COVID-19 PATIENTS

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• Man escapes from a hotel in the western Japan city for COVID-19 patients.
• The hotel has been reserved for people with mild or no symptoms.
• The escapee mentioned to have left the hotel due to sanitary issues.
...

SOUTH KOREA: VIRUS-TAINTED FOREIGNERS TO BEAR TREATMENT COSTS

• South Korea is moving to augment laws that require foreign coronavirus patients to cover the costs of their treatment amid a spurt in the number of new infections among foreigners arriving from abroad.
• The decision was arrived on Sunday during a pan-governmental COVID-19 meetin...

100 COVID-19 PATIENTS ESCAPE THE QUARANTINE CENTRE IN ASSAM

According to the reports, nearly 100 COVID-19 patients managed to escape from the quarantine centre located in Changsari, Kamrup district of Assam despite raging floods. These 100 patients after escaping from the quarantine centre, staged a protest at National Highway 31 and blocked traffic. The ...

GERMANY LAUNCHES CORONAVIRUS WARNING APP

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• Use of the app is voluntary
• To ensure its effectiveness, virologists say 60% of Germans must download it

Germany launched a coronavirus warning app. The German government has appealed to its citizens to download the newly ...

PROF MAURO GIACCA: CORONAVIRUS CAN LEAVE THE LUNGS OF PEOPLE COMPLETELY UNRECOGNIZABLE

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• The said condition is completely different from normal pneumonia, influenza or the SARS virus
• It explains the unique pathology of Covid-19

Prof Mauro Giacca of King’s College London said that Covid-19 can leave the ...

EUROPEAN GOVERNMENTS ROLL OUT APPS TO TRACE THE CORONAVIRUS PATIENTS

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• Germany will launch a contact-tracing app based on Bluetooth technology
• Italy has launched an app based on the Apple-Google model

To trace the contacts of coronavirus patients, European governments are rolling out apps. Ex...

DELHI CM KEJRIWAL ORDERS PRIVATE HOSPITALS TO RESERVE 20% BEDS FOR COVID-19 PATIENTS

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• Private hospitals cannot say no to any COVID-19 patient and have to start his treatment on immediate basis said Delhi CM Kejriwal

• Delhi Government has launched a mobile app that helps people know about the number of available beds, ventilators and ICU ...

NEW YORK: NURSE CLAIMS THE CITY IS ‘MURDERING’ COVID-19 PATIENTS

A nurse working on front line in the New York on COVID-19 patients is claiming that the city is killing patients infected with coronavirus by unnecessarily putting them on ventilators. She states it similar to a horror movie.
She has stated that relatives of the sick patients should make i...

A SPANISH TAXI DRIVER FERRIES PATIENTS AMIDST A ROUSING HERO’S WELCOME

• A Spanish Driver gives free rides to patients and is cheered on arrival and handed cash for his selfless act.
• He is accorded a heroes’ welcome.

A Spanish Taxi driver was greeted with a rousing welcome and handed over a cash envelope for his Good Samarita...

HYDERABAD ONE UP ON THE DEAFULTERS BY COOPERATING WITH CHEMISTS

• Hyderabad one step ahead of violators always with trying to contact them at chemist stores.
• This is when people come to buy medicines at the chemist outlets by taking their identities and contacting hem later on.

Hyderabad Officials have added a new dimension ...

COUNTLESS SACRIFICES OF FRONTLINE HEALTHCARE WORKFORCE

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-Frontline healthcare workers are providing imperative care to Covid-19 positive patients.

-Fact is that their personal relations and routine life is getting affected too.

When so much chaos going on and Covid-19 is forci...