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Forewarned Is Forearmed

The Coronavirus Outbreak Has Reached India. Here’s What You Need to Know.

...Wipe Out 5% of World Economy What is a coronavirus? Coronaviruses are a family of viruses known to infect mostly animals, but which are capable of jumping over the species...

By Pallavi Prasad

How Likely Are You to Get Coronavirus? Very.

How likely is it to get coronavirus? Very, experts say, even if you’re not in one of the outbreak countries. COVID-19, the strain of coronavirus behind the growing outbreak, is...

By Liesl Goecker

The Latest on Coronavirus Cases in India

...47. March 17, 2020 64-year-old from Mumbai becomes India’s third coronavirus casualty. India has also banned entry of passengers from Afghanistan, Philippines, Malaysia with immediate effect. The total number of...

By Anubhuti Matta

A Coronavirus Variant Found in India Is Spreading in the U.K. Let’s Not Call it the ‘Indian Variant’

This week, the U.K. reported 103 cases of a coronavirus variant that originated in India. Indian scientists detected the new variant between December 2020 and March this year in Maharashtra,...

By Saumya Kalia

Wishful Thinking

Coronavirus Is Too Small for Air Purifiers to Capture and Kill, Say Experts

...at stopping the spread of the illness? No. And there are a few reasons for it. First, the new coronavirus is transmitted primarily either through person-to-person contact and/or contact with...

By Anubhuti Matta

It’s Now Illegal to Say ‘Coronavirus’ In Turkmenistan

...banned all mention of the coronavirus pandemic from casual conversation, according to Reporters Without Borders (RSF). The Central Asian country maintains it has no coronavirus cases. To that end, any...

Why People Are Wishing Coronavirus On Horrible Personalities

Last night, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, who was diagnosed with coronavirus 10 days ago, was moved to intensive care; his doctors say he is “extremely sick” and will likely...

Llama Antibodies Are A New Frontier In the Search for A Coronavirus Vaccine

In the race to find an effective prophylactic for the novel coronavirus, a 4-year-old llama could emerge as the victor. Named Winter, she has chocolate-colored skin, spindly legs and lopsided...

Dead In Its Tracks

UV‑Emitting LED Lights That Kill the Coronavirus Could Be Used to Disinfect Public Spaces, Researchers Say

...effective solutions to disinfect the coronavirus. … We discovered that it is quite simple to kill the coronavirus using LED bulbs that radiate ultraviolet light. We killed the viruses using...

By Devrupa Rakshit

Fingers Crossed

Blood Transfusions from Recovered Coronavirus Patients May Provide Effective Treatment, Doctors Say

...therapy would offer many advantages. A coronavirus vaccine is 12 to 18 months away. Plasma is available now. The price of antiviral medications (when available) may create access issues for...

By Devrupa Rakshit

A Dangerous Journey

From Nasal Mucus, Up the Olfactory Nerve, to the Brain: Scientists Trace the Route of Severe Coronavirus Infections

After being inhaled through the nose, the coronavirus can reach an individual’s brain by passing from their nasal mucus to the olfactory nerve, a new study by German scientists has...

By Devrupa Rakshit

Hungary Introduces Anti‑Trans Bill While the World Is Distracted by Coronavirus

The Hungarian government, led by nationalist Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, passed a set of coronavirus measures in Parliament last week that gives Orbán the right to rule by decree. The...

Bitter Pill To Swallow

Paracetamol 40% More Expensive After Coronavirus Causes Shutdown in China

Coronavirus — an infectious viral outbreak out of Wuhan, China, now categorized as COVID-19 — has shut down China, after having infected more than 70,000 people with an overall death...

Pneumonia Caused by Coronavirus Is Likely to Be More Severe Than Other Types of Pneumonia

As the new coronavirus spreads around the world, one serious complication of the infection crops up again and again: severe cases of Covid19 are slipping into pneumonia — a serious...

By The Swaddle Team

Another One Bites The Dust

Singer, Anti‑Vaxxer M.I.A. Says She’d Choose Death Over Coronavirus Vaccine

...people from Covid19 — which is somehow against her position? — despite scientists stressing this isn’t true, and toiling to find one for the novel coronavirus. The coronavirus pandemic is...

Stop The Spread

ICMR Says Coronavirus May Spread from Mother to Baby Before or During Birth

On Monday, India’s apex body for biomedical research, the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR), said it may be possible for coronavirus to get transmitted from a mother to the...

By Anubhuti Matta

Coronapocalypse

Study Says Coronavirus Mutated To Become More Contagious, But Scientists Are Skeptical

A team of scientists in the U.S. has identified a new and extremely potent strain of the novel coronavirus, and suggests that this strain spreads much faster than the one...

By Devrupa Rakshit

Clubbed Together

Germany Asks 4,000 People to Attend Concert as a Coronavirus Experiment

Germany is trying out an experimental concert simulation to assess how countries can go back to hosting large-scale, crowded events amid the coronavirus pandemic. Part of its Restart-19 project, and...

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