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Category: World Health Organisation

Posted on July 23, 2020July 23, 2020

Finally, Tamil Nadu to resume contact tracing with earnestness

Aggressive testing since mid-June in hotspot areas in Chennai and the 12-day lockdown that went into effect from June 19 helped sharply reduce daily fresh cases from its peak of…

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Posted on July 22, 2020July 22, 2020

Results of coronavirus vaccine trials call for cautious optimism

Never before have candidate vaccines been developed from scratch, tested on animals and completed early stages of human clinical trials all under six months. This is an acid test for…

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Posted on July 18, 2020

Study finds evidence of  vertical transmission of coronavirus across the placenta

While about half-a-dozen studies published have already suggested vertical transmission of novel coronavirus from the mother to child, a study now published confirms the direction of transmission as vertical and…

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Posted on July 11, 2020July 11, 2020

Exhaled breath of COVID-19 patients found to contain novel coronavirus

The study found a few patients exhaled coronavirus into the air at an estimated rate of 1000-1,00,000 RNA copies/minute. Breath emission rate was the highest during the earlier stages of…

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Posted on July 10, 2020July 10, 2020

U.S. withdrawal from WHO is a lose-lose proposition for all

The capricious decision to withdraw from WHO will have dire consequences for global public health. The departure of the U.S. will be a significant blow to the WHO in terms…

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Posted on July 7, 2020July 7, 2020

COVID-19: China’s dangerous obsession with secrecy a serious threat to global public health

Contrary to what was earlier reported, China confirmed to the WHO of the cluster of cases of ‘viral pneumonia of unknown cause’ on January 3 only after the global body…

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Posted on July 5, 2020July 5, 2020

Completion of COVID-19 vaccine trials could take at least six-nine months, says Soumya Swaminathan

A realistic (but very optimistic) timeline from the start of Phase-1 to the completion of Phase-3 could be about six to nine months (if all goes exactly according to plan),…

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Posted on July 4, 2020July 4, 2020

COVID-19: States should bite the bullet and increase testing

It is important for every State to take a leaf out of Maharashtra’s book and test large numbers each day unmindful of the rising fresh cases each day. Moving from a…

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