October 17, 2020

Frozen food package polluted by living coronavirus could cause infection, China’s CDC says

Published in: The Business Standard Date: 17 October, 2020   China’s disease control authority said on Saturday that contact with frozen food packaging contaminated by living […]
October 16, 2020

Covid-19: 15 die, 1,527 more infected in 24 hours

Published in: The Daily Star Date: 16 October, 2020   The number of recoveries from Covid-19 has reached 3,00,738 in the country with 1,509 new patients […]
October 16, 2020

Race, Ethnicity, and Age Trends in Persons Who Died from COVID-19 — United States, May–August 2020 (CDC)

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Jeremy A.W. Gold, MD; Lauren M. Rossen, PhD; Farida B. Ahmad, MPH; Paul Sutton, PhD; Zeyu Li, MPH; Phillip […]
October 15, 2020

Covid-19: 15 die, 1,600 infected, 1,780 recover in 24 hours

Published in: The Daily Star Date: 15 October, 2020   Fifteen people have died from Covid-19 in the country over the last 24 hours, according to […]
October 15, 2020

Covid-19 increases risks for cancer patients

Published in: The Daily Star Date: 15 October, 2020   Common cold antibodies no help against coronavirus Reuters The following is a roundup of some of […]
October 15, 2020

Scientific consensus on the COVID-19 pandemic: we need to act now (The Lancet)

The Lancet 15 October, 2020 Nisreen A Alwan, Rochelle Ann Burgess, Simon Ashworth, Rupert Beale, Nahid Bhadelia, Debby Bogaert, et al. Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus […]
October 14, 2020

IMF says health crisis must be ended to halt divergent economic developments

Published in: The Business Standard Date: 14 October, 2020   IMF chief economist Gita Gopinath told reporters that growing restrictions on trade and investment and rising […]
October 14, 2020

Covid-19 again? Reinfection cases raise concerns over immunity

Published in: The Business Standard Date: 14 October, 2020   “It is becoming increasingly clear that reinfections are possible, but we can’t yet know how common […]
October 14, 2020

World Bank approves $12 bln for Covid-19 vaccines

Published in: The Business Standard Date: 14 October, 2020   The financing approval was expected as Malpass had announced the project in late September The World […]