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Flushing the toilet can fling a cloud of Coronavirus aerosols up to 91 centimetres into the air, infecting another user
• 5 years agoGrowing evidence shows that coronavirus can be passed not only through respiratory droplets but also through virus-laden faeces.
GAVI vaccine alliance says 75 countries keen to join 'COVAX' — COVID-19 vaccine access facility
• 5 years agoThe 75 countries, which would finance the vaccines from public budgets, will partner with up to 90 poorer countries to provide them with access.
Know the enemy: Health experts think understanding the Coronavirus will help us defeat it
• 5 years agoThe coronavirus is invisible, but seemingly everywhere, requires close contact to spread, but reached around the globe faster than any pandemic in history.
CanSino Biologics in talks with Russia, Brazil, Chile, Saudi Arabia to launch Phase III trial of its COVID-19 vaccine
• 5 years agoQiu Dongxu co-founder of CanSino said its new factory under construction in China will allow it to produce 100-200 million vaccine doses per year by early 2021.
Forget antibodies, scientists look towards T-cells in the immune system to fight Coronavirus infection
• 5 years agoThere is evidence that T-cells developed after exposure to other coronaviruses that cause the common cold could help fight off SARS-CoV-2.
Mathematical models use to predict severity of the COVID-19 in India carried elements of bias, assumptions: IJMR
• 5 years agoEstimates of modelling studies are "only as good as" the validity of the epidemiological or statistical model used and accuracy of assumptions made for modelling.
COVID-19 may infect the respiratory centre of the brains, nervous system says CSIR researchers
• 5 years agoThe new research paper implied that coronavirus could enter the human brain through the nose and reach the olfactory bulb of the brain.
Roche’s arthritis drug Actemra fails to help patients with early-stage COVID-19 pneumonia in Italian study
• 5 years agoI the study, Actemra did not reduce severe respiratory symptoms, intensive care visits, or death any better than standard treatments.
Reusable face mask can kill Coronavirus using the heat from a mobile phone charger
• 5 years agoThe new mask has a USB port that connects to a cellphone charger and heats the inner layer of carbon fibres to 70 degrees Celsius.
Japanese researchers find presence of COVID-19 in sewage plants, proves to be an early warning signal for transmission
• 5 years agoPublic health experts say such sampling of sewage could be used to estimate the number of infected people in a region without testing every individual.