COVID19: One in five children out of school

With Coronavirus gripping almost all the countries, one in five children worldwide is staying away from school and an additional one in four students is kept out of higher education establishments.

The deadly virus has affected about 363 million students from the pre-primary to tertiary level, according to UNESCO. The world body also said that 57.8 million students in higher education were also affected.

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Corona Care Homes to take care of COVID patients

Kerala has decided to open ‘Corona Care Homes’ near all the International Airports in the state in a bid to contain the further spread of the deadly coronavirus. This will help to identify the passengers who are infected and quarantine them in an effective way.

Reports said that The Corona Care Homes will be have facility for accommodating about 5,000 people alo0ng with doctors and other staff. The homes will also have an in-house lab facility, the reports said. 

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Hand washing: How and Why?

With the Covid-19 infections rising alarmingly, there are aggressive campaigns across the world for hand washing as a precaution. But, many do not know how it should be done and why it is important.

Why the hand washing?

• Coronaviruses are encased in a lipid envelope — basically, a layer of fat. Soap can break that fat apart and make the virus unable to infect you.

• The second thing soap does is mechanical. It makes skin slippery so that with enough rubbing, we can pry germs off and rinse them away.

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Coronavirus has a natural origin; claims study

Pushing aside all controversies that the Coronavirus emerged from a laboratory in the city of Wuhan, China, a new study revealed that the virus has a natural origin. The study has come up in Nature Medicine Journal.

The study claims there was no evidence to show that the virus was developed in a laboratory or was engineered. It said that the analysis of public genome sequence data from SARS-CoV-2 conformed this, the study claimed.

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IMF wants close coordination and contact to secure world economy

Quarantining and social distancing are the best prescription against Coronavirus. But when coming to securing global economy, the exact opposite is needed, according to the International Monetary Fund.

The IMF said that close coordination and close contact were the best medicine to get relief from economic pain inflicted by coronavirus. The IMF pointed out that several governments have taken many steps in ensuring a stable economy. However, it called for coordinated efforts.

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Corona Fight: China puts brakes to domestic transmission

Three months after the deadly virus hit a destructive trail from China, the origin country has announced that there was no domestic case on Thursday from the epicentre, sending a ray of hope for millions across the globe.

China announced that no new domestic cases of the COVID-19 was confirmed, including in the virus’ epicentre Wuhan, even as eight more fatalities have been reported, taking the death toll in the country to 3,245.

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Chen Wei, ‘terminator of Ebola’, leads another fight against Corona

 Top Chinese bio-warfare expert Chen Wei, known as the `terminator of Ebola’ once saved hundreds from infections during the Ebola attack. She is again on a mission to save thousands, this time fighting against the deadly corona virus.

If the reports are to be believed, she is on the right track with the clinical trials on the first corona vaccine starting in China. The Recombinant Novel Coronavirus Vaccine was successfully developed following more than a month of research. The recommended treatment for the coronavirus includes blood plasma from recovered patients and traditional Chinese medicine.

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