New Delhi: Could a sudden loss of sense of smell and taste indicate Covid-19 infection in the absence of other symptoms? Doctors from across the world have reportedly found that a significant number of the novel coronavirus positive patients lose their sense of smell. While the loss of sense of smell is often hard to detect, this may […]
Pandemics are not particularly new. In fact, COVID-19 is simply the latest in a long line of pandemics. But this one has a rather modern streak. For the SARS-CoV-2 virus that causes Covid-19 has used the connectedness of our globalised world to spread. And spread with such speed and stealth, that containment — keeping the […]
The Canadian government is exploring the possibility of holding virtual sessions of Parliament to pass legislation, as part of emergency measures to counter the impact of Covid-19 crisis. The idea has been mooted by Pablo Rodriguez, a leader of the ruling Liberal Party in the House of Commons, in a letter to the Speaker Anthony Rota, […]
India’s dominant services sector, the lifeblood for economic growth and jobs, contracted in March as new business and export demand fell sharply as the coronavirus pandemic wreaked havoc globally, a private survey showed. Prime Minister Narendra Modi ordered India’s 1.3 billion people to stay home and shut shops and business selling non-essential goods for 21 days from March 25 to […]
Estimating a spike in demand for personal protective equipment and diagnostic kits in the fight against COVID-19, the central government has calculated that the country will require about 27 million N95 masks, 15 million PPEs, 1.6 million diagnostic kits, and 50,000 ventilators in next two months, The Indian Express has learnt. According to sources, this was conveyed to industry representatives during a […]
New Delhi: A group of scientists at Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU)’s Centre for Molecular Medicine are researching the efficacy of a revamped tuberculosis vaccine, the BCG, which has been infiltrated with the Covid-19 protein to potentially protect people from the novel coronavirus that has wreaked havoc across the world. Led by well-known immunologist Dr Gobardhan Das, […]
Srinagar: The Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) Sunday airlifted for treatment the ailing father of a 36-year-old man who had begun to cycle back home to Jammu and Kashmir’s Rajouri district from Mumbai where he works as a watchman. After ThePrint’s report Friday on the arduous journey Mohammad Arif had embarked on after learning that his father, Wazir […]
thank health care workers, policemen, sanitation workers, who are on the frontline of the battle against the coronavirus disease (Covid-19), as well as those who have been providing essential services during the ongoing 21-day nationwide lockdown to check the spread of the pandemic. Prime Minister Narendra Modi greeted his party colleagues and asked them to help […]
‘Contact tracing going on scientifically, sample collection being taken to doorsteps’ SRINAGAR, APRIL 05: At a time when the world is grappling with deadly coronavirus pandemic, the Jammu and Kashmir Government has established timely COVID-19 hospitals—which are working round the clock and performing sample testing swiftly. Director, Health Services Kashmir, Dr Samir Mattoo said that the […]
Millions of people across the country switched off the lights of their houses in a show of solidarity in fight against the coronavirus pandemic. Lamps were lit, torches were switched on and mobile lights were flashed from the balconies by countrymen who answered the call given by Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The Prime Minister, in […]