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Chinese researchers were able to isolate and culture novel coronavirus from faeces samples. Confirmation of infectious virus in faeces samples raises the potential for faecal-oral or faecal-respiratory transmission. During 2002…
ICMR’s insistence on an evidence-based approach to plasma therapy is a welcome change and is in stark contrast to the cavalier manner in which it approved hydroxychloroquine as a prophylaxis…
A ribonucleoside analog (β-D-N4-hydroxycytidine or NHC) that was previously shown to be effective against influenza and Ebola is also potent against coronaviruses, including the novel coronavirus. The prodrug of NHC…
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…
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…
Bats serve as natural hosts for numerous viruses including Ebola virus, Nipah virus, SARS, MERS and the novel coronavirus. Yet, the viruses even when present in large numbers do not…
Even as 18 countries/regions have reported 67 cases of novel coronavirus as on January 28 morning, no confirmed case has been reported so far in India. But it must be…
Between December 8, 2019 and January 2, 2020, 41 people in Wuhan City, Hubei Province of China were infected with a novel coronavirus. One person has died and seven patients…
