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The Explained Desk of The Indian Express writes analyses and explanatory articles on a range of topics, including current affairs, politics, global events, sports, health and lifestyle.
Coronavirus (COVID-19): Supercomputers can help in developing a vaccine for the novel coronavirus, by identifying the virus proteins that can help create immunity among humans.
Asymptomatic carriers of infectious diseases pose a challenge in mitigation efforts, since they display no symptoms but can still pass on the disease to other people.
Coronavirus (COVID-19): Research shows that some patients who showed neurological manifestations experienced fewer “typical symptoms” of the disease, such as fever and cough.
Apple, Google team up against coronavirus: Contact tracing is considered essential for bringing epidemics under control, and is expected to help governments in relaxing lockdown orders.
Coronavirus (COVID-19): The Royal Observatory in Belgium has observed a 30-50 per cent fall in levels of ambient seismic noise since schools and businesses were closed in mid-March.
President Donald Trump has accused China of taking advantage of the US through the World Trade Organisation (WTO), saying that if Beijing is considered a 'developing country', the US should be called one too.
By putting up handmade motifs of rainbows on their windows, children will be able to see them during their evening walks in the countries where exercising is allowed. This way, children can enjoy “a sense of community” during this time
In the case of COVID-19, it cannot be said certainly if a high viral load translates to more severe symptoms for a person or if they are more contagious.
The Health Ministry has issued guidelines on blood donation to dispel apprehensions that donors and organisations might have about virus transmission due to transfusion or on contracting the virus at collection centres.
Coronavirus (COVID-19): According to the National Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), if the laboratory results for the virus for suspect cases are negative, the discharge of such patients is guided by the clinical condition of the case. Such patients are monitored for 14 days.
Children infected with the coronavirus show milder symptoms, a faster recovery, shorter “detoxification time” and a good prognosis as compared to adults, researchers in China have found.
Some of the AI-based approaches to deal with the current pandemic include the COVID-19 Open Research Dataset (CORD-19), which is a free resource of the research that is being done on COVID-19.
CFR may be used to determine the severity and prognosis of a disease. But in case of the current pandemic, CFR may not be a completely reliable method as the total number of COVID-19 cases counted depends on how aggressively countries are testing.
A total of 31 countries, including Suriname, Granada, Venezuela, and Nicaragua are currently collaborating with Cuban health workers to tackle the coronavirus pandemic.
Apart from condoms, the supply of contraceptive drugs is also expected to be affected due to the coronavirus, as pharmaceutical sector giants India and China have been forced to shut factories.
The guidelines recommend MPs to suggest works costing at least 15 per cent of their MPLADS entitlement for the year for areas inhabited by Scheduled Caste population and 7.5 per cent for areas inhabited by ST population.
