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Posted on June 14, 2020

Coronavirus: Fewer infected people account for larger virus spread

Three studies have found that a small percentage of people who have been infected with novel coronavirus account for a large proportion of novel coronavirus spread, much above the expected…

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Posted on April 29, 2020

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 three million. As the spread has slowed down in Europe,…

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Posted on April 3, 2020April 11, 2020

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…

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Posted on March 28, 2020April 11, 2020

Silent spread of coronavirus in Italy went undetected for weeks

Though the first confirmed case was reported on February 20, people in Italy have been infected in early January. The silent spread for about 50 days has led to an…

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Posted on March 23, 2020March 23, 2020

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…

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Posted on March 17, 2020March 18, 2020

Epicentre of COVID-19 pandemic shifts to Europe

Besides Italy, Spain, Germany and France reporting very high number of cases, all other countries in Europe have recorded at least one case so far, thus shifting the epicentre of…

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Posted on March 13, 2020March 17, 2020

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…

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Posted on March 4, 2020March 4, 2020

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…

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