The findings of the second country-wide serological survey, conducted by the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR), were announced on 29 September. The survey was carried out from 17 August to 22 September in the same 700 villages or wards…
The pandemic is set to spark famine, riots, instability, and civil war. The virus spreads, when tens of millions flee violence in Africa, the Middle East and Asia. In March, the UN Secretary-General called for a global ceasefire. But the…
It has now been 8 months since the first case of the novel coronavirus was first detected in India. Since then, the pandemic has raged on and the country is now reporting close to seventy to eighty thousand cases everyday.…
AMA takes a weekly look at the numbers and trends for #COVID19, including latest data that shows 33 million people have been diagnosed with the virus across the world, and more than 1 million have died. Stay up to date:
Toronto’s chief medical officer of health Dr. Eileen de Villa reported 381 new COVID-19 cases on Monday, stressing that nowhere in the city was safe from the virus, and that it was “not the time to panic” but the “time…
Increasingly identified as a dangerous and lethal co-morbidity obesity is complicating the fight against Covid-19. Initially many researchers thought Covid-19 was primarily a respiratory disease. But now experts have identified obesity as a major culprit. As the virus proliferates around the…
