corona virus

Masks & Social Distancing ‘Could Last Years’

According to an article published on the BBC news, People may need to wear face coverings and socially distance for several years until we return to normality, a leading epidemiologist has predicted.

Instructions about staying safe

Mary Ramsay, the head of immunisation at Public Health England, said “basic measures could be in place until other countries successfully roll out jabs”. A return of big spectator events required careful monitoring and clear instructions about stayingsafe.

The defence...

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Plot Yields Bats With a Trove of New Coronaviruses

  • 302 samples of faeces and urine and 109 mouth swabs taken from 342 live bats studied.
  • Team sequenced 24 coronavirus genomes, of which 4 were new viruses closely related to SARS-CoV-2.
  • One of the viruses isolated from a Rhinolophus pusillus bat shared 94.5% of its genome with the pandemic virus.
  • The results suggest that viruses closely related to SARS-CoV-2 continue to circulate in bats.

According to an article published in the Nature, bats in the province of Yunnan in southern China have...

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[Watch] Initial WHO COVID Origin Investigation Report Shows No Lab Origin Evidence

According to an NBC News report, the head of the  WHO team investigating covid19 origin in China said it is “extremely unlikely” that the coronavirus leaked from a lab in the Chinese city of Wuhan, where Covid-19 first emerged. 

The experts placed their bet on animal origin in a report published on Tuesday. The team was on a fact-finding mission which involved visiting Wuhan markets, supply chains, and other sites.

The WHO’s team landed in Wuhan last month, more than a year after Covid-19 was...

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Rising Shipping Costs Spurs Stress on China-Europe Trade

  • The cost of shipping goods from China to Europe increases by up to 600 percent in recent weeks.
  • The rise in cost of shipping goods is attributed to pandemic that has disrupted the trade routes balance.
  • It has resulted in a shortage of shipping containers.

A recent news article published in the CGTN written by Jemima Walker, reveals that the soaring shipping costs from China to Europe takes place amid container shortage.

Shipping cost of a container

At the beginning of 2020, it cost around $2,000...

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COVID19 Causing Permanent Changes To the Global Workforce

  • Reports suggest that pandemic related changes in the global workforce likely to be permanent
  • Employment loss is triggering a fiscal gap amongst the rich and the poor 
  • People are likely to opt for work from home opportunities.
  • International Travel levels unlikely go back to prepandemic levels. 
  • Industries unlikely to be as dynamic as before.

According to a Reuters report,  sweeping changes to the global labour market caused by the coronavirus pandemic will likely be permanent, policy makers...

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Europe Entering Catastrophic COVID Phase With Death Toll Rising To  600,000

More than 600,000 people have died of coronavirus in Europe, according to the official statistics tabulated by Worldometer, which includes Russia in its count. The continent surpassed the horrific marker earlier this week, reports the Word Socialist Web Site. 

100,000 Deaths in Every 3 Weeks

Every three weeks another approximately 100,000 people are dying from the virus on the continent. The total of 300,000 deaths was passed near November 10; 400,000 at the end of that month; and half a million...

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New Strain of Covid 19, Demands More Research

  • There is no clear-cut evidence the new variant of coronavirus is able to transmit more easily, cause more serious symptoms or render the vaccine useless.
  • However, there are two reasons scientists are keeping a close eye on it.
  • The first is that levels of the variant are higher in places where cases are higher.
  • It is a warning sign, although it can be interpreted in two ways.
  • The virus could have mutated to spread more easily and is causing more infections.

According to a recent news article...

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Coronavirus Withers From a Tiger To a Wild Cat

  • Infectious diseases specialist Prof Matteo Bassetti says Covid-19 has been losing its virulence.
  • Coronavirus has downgraded from a “tiger to a wild cat” and could die out on its own without a vaccine, an infectious diseases specialist has claimed.
  • Prof Matteo Bassetti, head of the infectious diseases clinic at the Policlinico San Martino hospital in Italy, told that Covid-19 has been losing its virulence in the last month.
  • And patients who would have previously died are now recovering.
  • His...

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How Do We Overcome Burnout During Covid 19?

  • Burnout: the term for relentless overwork has rapidly become ubiquitous, especially when describing millennials who hustle to the point of exhaustion.
  • And with millions of people now in lockdown as Covid-19 sweeps the globe, burnout is still very much around – but it looks a little different right now.
  • Many have lost jobs, while those lucky enough to keep them have to do so while working in the confines of home, some simultaneously balancing family pressing needs, like childcare.
  • Daily life...

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Are Face Shields Not as Effective as Masks?

  • Singapore government reviews stance on use of face shields; only specific groups may use them instead of masks.
  • People will have to wear face masks instead of face shields when they leave home, following a review of an earlier policy in which either option had been allowed.
  • Health Minister Gan Kim Yong said yesterday that the task force combating the Covid-19 outbreak has decided that face shields are not as effective as masks in reducing the risk of virus transmission.
  • An infected person...

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