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Covid-19: Global cases top 61.5 lakh Global coronavirus cases continued to rise across the world as around 1.25 lakh cases were reported in the last 24 hours till Sunday morning.Confirmed coronavirus cases around the world have jumped to 6,150,483, including 124,103 during the period.Besides, the death toll from the virus has reached 370,506 with 4,084 more reported during the period, according to Worldometer.Of the currently infected 3,045,431 patients, 2,991,928 are in mild condition while 53,503 are in serious or critical...

News Desk :Doctors in India have decried the Indian health research agency’s intransigence on its recommendation of hydroxychloroquine prophylaxis against covid-19 to hospital healthcare workers, saying that the agency has breached principles of medical ethics.The doctors have accused the Indian Council of Medical Research of resisting calls from the medical community for randomised control trials to assess hydroxychloroquine prophylaxis against covid-19 and for relying on weak evidence to justify its recommendation.In an advisory dated 22 May the council expanded hydroxychloroquine...

Virus reported to have originated in China’s Wuhan has killed more than 365,000 people and infected 5.9 million. The World Health Organization (WHO) has declared the new coronavirus outbreak, which originated in Wuhan, China, a pandemic. As of May 30, the global death toll surpassed 365,000 amid more than 5.9 million cases. Over 2.5 million people have recovered from the disease worldwide, according to the data collected by the Johns Hopkins University in the United States.What is a coronavirus?The coronavirus...

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Staff Reporter :Another 159 members of Bangladesh Police have been diagnosed with coronavirus across the country, taking the total number in the police for to 4,703.Of the total infected policemen, 1,606 have made full recovery while 15 died as of Saturday, said sources at the Police Headquarters.Members of Bangladesh Police, Armed Forces and Rapid Action Battalion along with other agencies have been jointly working to ensure social distancing across the country.Bangladesh on Saturday recorded highest 28 deaths from coronavirus and...

News Desk :The new coronavirus is losing its potency and has become much less lethal, a senior Italian doctor said on Sunday.“In reality, the virus clinically no longer exists in Italy,” said Alberto Zangrillo, head of the San Raffaele Hospital in Milan in the northern region of Lombardy, which has borne the brunt of Italy’s coronavirus outbreak.“The swabs that were performed over the last 10 days showed a viral load in quantitative terms that was absolutely infinitesimal compared to the...

Reuters :The George Best Hotel in Belfast went into administration in April without ever opening, following the coronavirus outbreakImage caption: The George Best Hotel in Belfast went into administration in April without ever opening, following the coronavirus outbreakStormont’s Economy Minister, Diane Dodds, has announced hotels, B&Bs, caravan parks and other tourist accommodation can reopen in Northern Ireland from 20 July, provided the rate of infection remains under control.Dodds said the tourism industry had faced an “unprecedented challenge” in the face...

News Desk :Italy has claimed that it has successfully developed a vaccine to contain the novel coronavirus, saying the vaccine works on humans.Italy, one of the world’s hardest-hit countries in the coronavirus pandemic, allowed about 4.5 million people to return to work on Monday after nearly two months of lockdown.As per the tests carried out at Rome’s infectious-disease Spallanzani Hospital, the coronavirus vaccine has antibodies generated in mice that work on human cells, reports WION.Human tests are expected after this...

CNN :The World Health Organization has warned of a second peak – not necessarily a second wave – of coronavirus cases. During a media briefing on Monday, Dr Mike Ryan, executive director of WHO’s Health Emergencies Programme, said, “Right now, we are right in the middle of the first wave globally.”“We’re still very much in a phase where the disease is actually on the way up,” he added, “We need to be also cognizant of the fact that the disease...

USNEWS.com :The United States announced that it has sent 2 million doses of the anti-malaria drug touted as a coronavirus treatment by President Donald Trump to Brazil.In a joint statement Sunday, the U.S. and Brazil said the hydroxychloroquine will be used as a prophylactic to defend health care workers in Brazil against the virus, as well as a treatment to help Brazilians who become infected.The U.S. is also sending 1,000 ventilators to Brazil, which has the second most cases of...