Tag: Corona
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Coronavirus: India hunts for best vaccine candidate across the world to invest in
India is looking for successfully performing covid-19 vaccine candidate all across the world to strike a deal with the best ones. So far, India’s list of possible acquisitions include the under-trail candidates being developed by UK’s Oxford-AstraZeneca and United States’s Moderna-NIAID. Besides, the government is also closely observing the progress of vaccine candidates being developed ... -
COVID-19 Testing – Are we on the right track with antibody tests?
The latest figures in India of confirmed cases has reached 42,700 with close to 23,500 being active and 1400 deceased. The Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) had advised the states to use antibody testing for rounding up the positive cases in tackling the COVID-19 fight in India. But over time it has been substantiated ... -
Bihar reports its first Covid-19 death, deceased came from Qatar
On Sunday, Bihar reported its first death caused by Covid-19, the respiratory disease caused by coronavirus. Superintendent CM Singh said that 38-year old man had travel history to Qatar. The patient Saif Ali (38), who died at AIIMS Patna was a resident of Munger district in Bihar, was admitted to the hospital on Friday after ... -
Black Friday, again: Here are three key reasons why market crashed today
Banking stocks took a beating on Friday following developments around YES Bank. The private lender’s board was superseded by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI). Mirroring global peers, the Indian stock market, too, crashed on Friday as a double whammy of Coronavirus jitters and a sharp sell-off in banking space owing to developments around State ... -
Coronavirus: South Africa’s President Ramaphosa warns of crisis
South Africa’s President Cyril Ramaphosa has warned that the coronavirus will turn into a “national crisis” and its impact will be “huge”. His warning came after the first case of the coronavirus was detected in South Africa. The patient is a 38-year-old man who visited Italy with his wife. This brings to 27 the number ... -
Amid coronavirus outbreak, Chinese mouthpiece blames Indian hackers for attack on medical institutes
Chinese internet security company 360 Security Technology announced that it had evidence of an APT attack launched by Indian hackers on Chinese medical institutes. • ‘A group called BITTER, with suspected Indian background, launched continuous APT attacks’. • Indian hackers accused of targeting local hospitals and medical research institutions amid the ongoing Coronavirus outbreak in ...
