Washington: NASA engineers have designed a new low-cost high-pressure ventilator tailored specifically to treat COVID-19 patients. The device, called VITAL (Ventilator Intervention Technology Accessible Locally), passed a critical test on …
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New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday hailed rural India, gram panchayats for playing an active role in the fight against COVID-19 and in supplying food grains to the …
We have to become self-reliant, says Modi, hails villagers Read More
London: Middlesex County cricket club have decided furlough players and most of their operating staff (including administrative and support staff) under the United Kingdom’s coronavirus job retention scheme amid the …
Middlesex decides to furlough players, staff amid COVID-19 crisis Read MoreIslamabad: As the number of coronavirus cases in Pakistan has increased to 11,155 with 237 deaths, the National Command and Operation Centre (NCOC) has revealed that 79 per cent of …
79% COVID-19 cases in Pak caused by local transmission Read More
San Francisco: In a bid to address the digital divide in COVID-19 times, Facebook has partnered the Information Technology Disaster Resource Center (ITDRC) and NetHope, a global consortium of nearly 60 …
Facebook doles out money to help more people access Internet Read More
Bucharest: Romania’s athletes must take tests for COVID-19 before returning to training or competition, the country’s Minister of Youth and Sports Ionut Stroe has said. “Any kind of training or competition …
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Geneva: All available evidence to date suggests that the novel coronavirus has a natural animal origin and was not a manipulated or constructed virus, the World Health Organization (WHO) said. “Many …
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Berlin: After around five weeks of shutdown due to the coronavirus crisis, Germany’s largest car manufacturer Volkswagen restarted production in two of its plants. Volkswagen’s vehicle plant in Zwickau, Saxony would …
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New York: Sunlight kills COVID-19 while warmer temperatures and humid weather significantly damage the virus, measured in terms of the virus’ half life or the time it takes to cut its …
COVID-19 killed by sunlight, warmer temperatures, humidity: White House Read More
London: The first human trial in Europe of a coronavirus vaccine has begun in Oxford. Two volunteers were injected, the first of more than 800 people recruited for the study, the …
First patients injected in UK vaccine trial Read More