Health & Environment

[Answer] How To Establish A COVID19 Safety Control Measure Onboard Ships?

As COVID19 continue effect world trade and how businesses function, ships and crews are in jeopardy on ways to tackle the situation. To help seafarers and shippers the Gard has published a detailed safety control measure plan for shippers.

Let’s take a look at that.

Objective of this Guidance

This guidance aims to address major concerns and expectations of ship’s crews and shorebased personnel through the implementation of practical, risk-based measures to address COVID-19 risks to all personnel...

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All the Details on How COVID19 Vaccines Are Being Developed!

Bill Gates had made a  comprehensive list of all the advances made by medical science in finding a vaccine for coronavirus. The article published in Gates Notes highlights the key areas of COVID19 vaccine development. Let’s take a look at that.

Vaccine the Only Way?

One of the questions I get asked the most these days is when the world will be able to go back to the way things were in December before the coronavirus pandemic. My answer is always the same: when we have an almost perfect drug to...

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[Watch] First Successful COVID19 Antibodies Production in Vaccine Trials!

In a major development in COVID19 Vaccine trials, Volunteers who received Moderna’s Covid-19 vaccine had positive early results, according to the biotech company, which partnered with the National Institutes of Health to develop the vaccine, says a CNN report by Elizabeth Cohen, Senior Medical Correspondent of CNN.

Vaccine To Be Available By Next Year?

If future studies go well, the company’s vaccine could be available to the public as early as January, Dr. Tal Zaks, Moderna’s chief medical...

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COVID19 To Make The US Experience ‘Darkest Winter in Modern History’!

According to a CNN report,  a key federal office director has said that the US is likely to face unprecedented illness and fatalities as it is unprepared to tackle the coronavirus pandemic.

What is it?

Dr. Rick Bright, the ousted director of a key federal office charged with developing medical countermeasures, testified before Congress on Thursday that the Trump administration was unprepared for the coronavirus pandemic and warn that the US will face “unprecedented illness and fatalities” without...

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WHO : The Coronavirus Will Never Go Away!

According to a CNN report, the World Health Organization has said that the coronavirus spreading across the globe could become a constant presence.

A Virus That Kills Every Year

During a media briefing in Geneva, Dr. Mike Ryan, executive director of the WHO’s health emergencies program, warned Wednesday that the disease may join the mix of viruses that kill people around the world every year.

“This virus just may become another endemic virus in our communities and this virus may never go away. HIV...

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Viral Ships – 5 Ships That Carried The Deadliest Infection in History!

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  • Throughout the world ships have been in the cause of gruesome infectious disease outbreaks including the recent coronavirus.
  • Even the origin of the word quarantine lies in a ship which had to quarantine at the harbour for 40 days
  • A list of 5 such ships how diseases spread due to faulty policies, racial hatred, apathy towards people and the urge for more business.

For centuries, ships are at the receiving of diseases and pandemics. So much so that, there was a time when the arrival of a ship...

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Darwin’s Iconic Ship HMS Beagle Docking Site Declared Protected Site!

The shoreline at Paglesham, Essex, where the remains of The Beagle are thought to lie

According to a BBC report, the remains of a rare 19th Century dock built for Charles Darwin’s ship HMS Beagle has been recognised as a site of national importance.

  • The submerged mud berth on the River Roach in Rochford, Essex, will now be protected against unauthorised change.
  • The ship, launched in 1820, allowed Darwin to make observations that led to his theory of natural selection.
A rare maritime history

“We are glad to see this site in a quiet corner of Essex given national protection,” said...

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COVID19 Stranded Seafaers To Be Evacuated!

  • Stranded indian seafarers reaching out to government to help them reach home
  • Indian government tracking seafarers all over the world and planning for their evacuation
  • Seafarers asked to register for evacuation.

According to an article published in the Hindu written by Kallol Battacharjee, the Indian Government is planning an evacuation of stranded seafarers by the end of this month.

What is it?

The Ministry of External Affairs,  is compiling data of seafarers who are likely to be part of third...

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WHO Launching Unique COVID19 Contact Tracing App!

  • WHO launching a virtual handshake contact tracing app by this month
  • World’s top engineers including that of Google and Alphabet are working for it.
  • Apart from contact tracing, there will be a self-help guide to check your mental health
  • There will be a separate integrated app to inform and cater to the healthcare workers’ need.

In a major development, the World Health Organization (WHO) has announced that they are planning to launch an app this month to enable people in under-resourced...

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First COVID19 Vaccine Trial in Closest Human Like Animal Successful!

In a major development, China has declared that a coronavirus vaccine developed in China has been proven effective in monkeys, reports CGTN.

What is it?

PiCoVacc, a vaccine made by Beijing-based Sinovac Biotech, used a very typical method to prevent the virus from infecting life forms: Putting a crippled virus into an animal’s body, forcing its immune system to produce antibodies.

The antibodies will also kill normal viruses.

How did they do it?
  • The researchers injected the vaccine into rhesus...

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