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26 Apr

‘One World’ celebrity special for coronavirus draws 21 million Americans

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Almost 21 million Americans watched the “One World: Together At Home” global special on Saturday in support of frontline workers battling the coronavirus pandemic, according to Nielsen data released on Monday. Nielsen said that the two-hour concert, which featured appearances and performances from their homes by multiple celebrities including Taylor Swift, Lady Gaga, the Rolling Stones, Oprah Winfrey and Beyonce, was aired on 26 US television networks. The event, the biggest celebrity effort during the coronavirus outbreak, was viewed by an estimated 20.7 million viewers in the United States, Nielsen said. Audiences in other nations and on streaming platforms were…

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25 Apr

Growth Rate Of Covid-19 Is Reducing.

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The total number of COVID-19 cases in the country increased by six per cent during a 24-hour period starting 8 am Friday, the government said this morning. This is the lowest daily growth rate recorded since India crossed 100 positive coronavirus cases last month. The data was revealed at a high-level Group of Ministers (GoM) meeting chaired by Union Health Minister Dr Harsh Vardhan.The GoM was also told the death rate is around 3.1 per cent and the recovery rate is over 20 per cent, "which is comparatively better than other countries and may be taken as a positive effect…

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24 Apr

Donald Trump’s Idea On Covid-19 Cure Gets Viral.

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An observation by a top US official that the coronavirus is quickly destroyed by sunlight led President Donald Trump to suggest a method to fight COVID-19 - injecting patients with disinfectants.It took no time for President Trump's comments at the White House briefing to spread on social media, with scientists and researchers criticising him.William Bryan, science and technology advisor to the Department of Homeland Security secretary, told reporters at the White House that US government scientists had found ultraviolet rays had a potent impact on the pathogen, offering hope that its spread may ease over the summer. "Our most striking…

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24 Apr

US Scientists Say That Sunlight Destroys Coronavirus Quickly.

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The new coronavirus is quickly destroyed by sunlight, according to new research announced by a senior US official on Thursday, though the study has not yet been made public and awaits external evaluation.William Bryan, science and technology advisor to the Department of Homeland Security secretary, told reporters at the White House that government scientists had found ultraviolet rays had a potent impact on the pathogen, offering hope that its spread may ease over the summer. "Our most striking observation to date is the powerful effect that solar light appears to have on killing the virus, both surfaces and in the…

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24 Apr

India Defying Global Coronavirus Trend With It’s Lower Death Rates.

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Parts of India have recorded dramatic falls in mortality rates after a nationwide lockdown was imposed to fight the new coronavirus, suggesting there has not been an undetected surge in virus-related deaths.All over the world, mortality rates are being scrutinised to determine the true impact of the coronavirus, which emerged in China late last year and is known to have infected more than 2.7 million people globally, with nearly 190,000 deaths.While death rates in some countries have risen sharply in recent weeks, in India the opposite seems to be happening, at least in some places.

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23 Apr

BJP Refers Sonia Gandhi’s Attack As “Cheap Politics”

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Sonia Gandhi in her opening remarks at a Congress Working Committee (CWC) meeting, said the BJP was doing "grave damage" to social harmony when everyone should be fighting coronavirus unitedly.As Sonia Gandhi accuses "spreading the virus of communal hatred" at a time it should be fighting coronavirus, the ruling BJP today said the Congress president should not do "cheap politics"."We are not creating communal divisions. We are unitedly fighting COVID-19. We request them to not do cheap politics. They must not indulge in small politics," Union Minister Prakash Javadekar said, shortly after Sonia Gandhi took on the ruling party at…

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23 Apr

Government Says that, “Increase In COVID-19 Cases Linear, Not Exponential”

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Amid all the storm even a little ray on sunshine helps us take a breathe of hope if not relief. This felt true as the Government of India recently declared that the recovery rate of COVID-19 patients in India had risen to nearly 20 per cent, with 4,258 people being discharged after receiving treatment. The rate, in which the number of people have recovered from the infection as a percentage of the total number of cases, has been increasing since last week. In last week, it was 9.99 per cent.The increase in the number of fresh COVID-19 cases in the…

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21 Apr

States Asked Not To Use Rapid Antibody Tests for 2 Days

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Around 5 lakh Rapid Test kits were procured by the government and distributed around the country after the ICMR recommended that every resident in coronavirus hot-spots -- or areas with a large number of cases -- will be tested for the virus. It was decided to use fast-track kits as the regular RT-PCR tests are slow and have to be conducted in laboratories. Many states in the country do not have adequate testing facilities.All states have been asked not to use the new rapid antibody test for COVID-19 for two days. The Indian Council Of Medical Research, the country's nodal…

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20 Apr

Trump claims that US has done more covid-19 tests as compared to India.

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US President Mr.Trump said that the US has made steady progress in its war against the coronavirus (COVID-19) disease and is still on its way .The United States had tested 4.18-million people. "That's a record anywhere in the world," he said. He also particularly mentioned the name of India along with 9 other countries while comparing the total numbers of tests done. "We have done more testing than all of these countries combined -- France, United Kingdom, South Korea, Japan, Singapore, India, Austria, Australia, Sweden and Canada," Mr Trump told reporters at a news conference in the White House.

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19 Apr

New Task Force For COVID-19 Drug Testing, Vaccine: Centre

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The centre has formed a high-level task force to track and monitor the work being carried out to develop vaccine against COVID-19, which has killed over 500 people in the country."This Task Force will expedite coordination of work done by all ministries on the issue related to vaccine development. This will further enable to speed up the research work carried out through international efforts by academia and research institutions," the government said in a statement.The panel will be jointly led by Member (Health), NITI Aayog and Principal Scientific Advisor to the Prime Minister.

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