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Caronavirus Pandemic: Can beer help with coronavirus?:Serious to foolish queries flood helplines
Vishal Sehgal, medical director at Bangalore-based Portea Medical, said their WhatsApp chatbot service, launched in the third week of March, has received over 15 lakh queries from over 16 countries. Besides, they get over 100 COVID-19 related calls on their helpline everyday.
“There is a lot of anxiety and doubts among people about COVID-19. They are mostly about what this virus is, how it works and what safety measures need to be taken. There are also a lot of queries on what one can do if they develop the symptoms.
Apple, Google bring Covid-19 contact-tracing to 3 billion people
This means that if a user tests positive for Covid-19, and adds that data to their public health app, users who they came into close proximity with over the previous several days will be notified of their contact. This period could be 14 days, but health agencies can set the time range.
WHO is investigating reports of recovered COVID patients testing positive again
According to the WHO’s guidelines on clinical management, a patient can be discharged from hospital after two consecutive negative results in a clinically recovered patient at least 24 hours apart, it added.
Cyber Security&Covid-19
If you have effective cyber incident response, crisis management and/or business recovery plans in place, it is important to review them in light of your new operating environment. Can you access all the equipment you will need to test or reset? Is your data still being backed up to a secure site? Can your users still effectively report phishing or other indicators of cyber incidents? How are you going to maintain communication between the key crisis managers if all your laptops and mobiles get encrypted with ransomware? If your plan isn’t tested yet, now may be the wrong time to start – but at a minimum do all the relevant staff at least have a clear understanding of the plan, and how your current situation has altered it?
Two thirds of COVID-19 patients improve after Gilead drug – NEJM
The paper’s author called the findings “hopeful,” but cautioned that it is difficult to interpret the results since they do not include comparison to a control group, as would be the case in a randomized clinical trial. In addition, the patient numbers were small, the details being disclosed are limited, and the follow-up time was relatively short.
There are currently no approved treatments or preventive vaccines for COVID-19, the respiratory illness caused by the novel coronavirus that has killed more than 100,000 people worldwide.
World Bank forecasts worst economic slump in South Asia in 40 years
Other than India, the World Bank forecast that Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bhutan and Bangladesh will also see sharp falls in economic growth.
Three other countries – Pakistan, Afghanistan and the Maldives – are expected to fall into recession, the World Bank said in the report, which was based on country-level data available as of April 7.
FPIs pull out Rs 9,103 cr in April as Covid-19 triggers rush to safe havens
During this holiday-truncated week (between April 6-10), with just three trading sessions, “FPIs withdrew net assets worth $457.5 million from the Indian markets. This was significantly lower than the net outflow of $1.7 billion recorded in the previous week.”
In grim milestone, United States logs world’s highest coronavirus death toll
Public health experts have warned the U.S. death toll could reach 200,000 over the summer if unprecedented stay-at-home orders that have closed businesses and kept most Americans indoors are lifted when they expire at the end of the month.
Govt is well prepared in case of exponential rise in Covid-19 numbers
“The total number of COVID-19 cases has risen to 8,356 and the death toll to 273. A total of 909 new cases and 34 deaths have been reported since Saturday. The good news is that 716 people have recovered and have been discharged so far. Seventy-four people have been cured since Saturday. The government is extra prepared if the number of cases rises exponentially,” he said.
Lessons countries can learn from COVID-19 in Italy decoded
Since COVID-19 morbidity and mortality are strongly dependent on the presence of concomitant serious diseases, Italy with its high proportion of patients with history of smoking and heart disease, has been particularly vulnerable, the researchers said.
Another factor linked to high mortality rates in Italy is the increased burden of cases that presented themselves to the health care system, they wrote in their analysis.