IANS- Bollywood actor Amitabh Bachchan tweeted a video where he talks of Chinese experts discovering that the common housefly, which sits on excreta, can transmit the coronavirus. However, the health ministry disagrees. The video was retweeted by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, reports hindustantimes.com. “Chinese experts have discovered that the coronavirus can survive in human excreta […]
Prakash Narayan- At the outset, it should be mentioned that I am a Software Engineer – not a virologist or an epidemiologist or a paleontologist. These are my ruminations. They are not “substantiated” by research. Hopefully, the theories expounded here would result in additional research and corroboration. There has been an abundance of […]
B J Arun-TiE Silicon Valley president- The COVID-19 pandemic is an emerging and very rapidly evolving situation. We saw health advisories regarding not hosting gatherings of more than 1,000 people, being changed to 250 and finally 100, literally on a daily basis this past week. We saw dozens of conferences either get canceled, postponed, or […]
indica News Bureau- In a significant find, researchers now report that the novel coronavirus can survive in the air for hours in fine particles known as aerosols, and can spread quickly like SARS, making it more pandemic than anticipated. This has turned the earlier thinking that coronavirus only spreads within the surface and is not […]
Ritu Jha- Concerned over the uncontrolled novel coronavirus (COVID-19) the Indian government announced Wednesday that it would suspend all tourist visas starting March 13, and it applies to people traveling on Overseas Citizen of India (OCI) card as well and if they have traveled, they can be quarantined for a minimum of 14 days on […]
IANS- After a techie from software major Mindtree tested positive for coronavirus infection, an employee of Dell India also tested positive following his return from the US. “Nothing is more important than the health and safety of our employees and communities where we operate. We can confirm two employees of Dell India were tested for […]
indica News Bureau- To speed up the response, to find a cure for the noval coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, the world’s two largest medical foundations – The Bill & Milanda Gates Foundation and Wellcome, announced the collaboration with payments major Mastercard on Tuesday to set up $125 million in seed funding. The amount would help in […]
Ritu Jha- It was mid-January when Dr. Prasun Mishra, founder of the American Association for Precision Medicine (AAPM), was on a call with his friend Jay Chen, who was visiting China to celebrate Chinese New Year. There was a word of a new virus sickening a small population in Wuhan, and some physicians thought it […]
Partha Chakraborty- Jaswinder Singh looks solemn as he scrubs his cab in between his shifts of ferrying passengers in NYC Metro area; Hossain Patwary is avoiding eye contact as his customers strain to understand what he’s saying behind his face mask in his tiny kiosk at Port Authority Bus Terminal. Elsewhere in New York, […]
Ritu Jha- Princess Cruises has confirmed that the ship being held off the Northern California coast has more than 130 people aboard from India among the more than 3.500 people representing 54 nationalities. “Confirming there are 130 team members and 1 passenger onboard who have passports from India,” a Princess spokesperson responded by email to […]
