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 latest scapegoat for all the failures of his administration in…
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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 symptoms and underreporting, the actual number of infected people will…
Shutdown alone is not enough to break the chain: Giridhara Babu
In an unprecedented measure, India on March 25 began a country-wide shutdown for 21 days to cut the transmission chain of the novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2). Can mitigation measures without tracking…
China reports zero cases on three days, is it just a blip?
China had zero cases on March 18-20, but one local transmission on March 21. The turnaround in China comes at a time when the virus is galloping in Europe and…
Coronavirus: Undetected cases drive virus spread in the community
Eighty-six percent of people in China infected with novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) but undetected before travel restrictions came into effect were the source of infection for 79% of documented cases, a…
COVID-19: Not a time to panic but to act decisively
In addition to testing sick people and their contacts, India should adopt a more aggressive approach by looking for cases in the community to prevent the silent spread of the…
COVID-19 has higher death rate than influenza, Tedros says
Contrary to the notion that COVID-19 has less death rate compared with influenza, WHO says about 3.4% of reported COVID-19 cases have died globally compared with generally far fewer than…
Shanghai lab, the first to share coronavirus genome sequence, shut down
A Shanghai-based lab which was the first to sequence the whole genome of the novel coronavirus and publicly share the sequence data was shut down for “rectification”, a day after…
