Window of opportunity to contain COVID-19 is narrowing, warns WHO chief
The window of opportunity to contain novel coronavirus is narrowing as the number of cases with no clear epidemiological link, such as travel history to China or contact with a…
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Coronavirus: A preprint provides ammunition to conspiracy theories about virus origin
A preprint by two Chinese authors has without a shred of evidence provided much ammunition to conspiracy theories that the novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) might have come from a Chinese lab.…
COVID-19: China once again changes case definition in Hubei province
On February 20, China once again changed the case definition in Hubei province. All clinically confirmed cases will now be classified under suspected cases. Only molecular test positives will be…
Coronavirus: Opacity in the time of an outbreak can kill more people
China could have contained the spread with very little effort and resources had it been transparent and acted on time. Downplaying and being secretive about public health issues, particularly novel…
Convalescent plasma therapy tested on critically ill COVID-19 patients
A pharma company in China is testing convalescent plasma therapy to treat critically sick COVID-19 patients. So far, 13 patients have been treated and some improvements in clinical symptoms have…
WHO refuses to call novel coronavirus by official name
Three days after the novel coronavirus got an official name — SARS-CoV-2 — WHO will not mention the virus by its official name. It will instead call it as “virus…
NEJM study claiming novel coronavirus can be transmitted during incubation period flawed
Contrary to claims made in NEJM, the Chinese woman did not transmit the novel coronavirus to the German during the incubation period. She had symptoms during her stay in Germany…
Coronavirus: India’s health system, preparedness under test
Since the novel coronavirus was declared public health emergency, the virus has been galloping and infecting hundreds and killing tens of people each day in China and in other countries,…
