WHO urges countries not to let COVID-19 eclipse other health issues
Brazzaville – Public health systems in Africa are coming under severe strain as the unprecedented COVID-19 pandemic
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‘No evidence’ that recovered COVID-19 patients cannot be reinfected: WHO
WHO says can’t say if patients who recovered and have antibodies are protected
In groundbreaking achievement, IIT Delhi develops low cost Probe-free Covid 19 detection assay
Testing kit is the first ever probe-free assay for COVID-19 approved by ICMR
India sends 5.5 million hydroxychloroquine tablets to UAE
The UAE is one of the countries battling the Covid-19 pandemic, with 6302 cases reported till now
India to continue export of Covid-19 related drugs
The Director General of Foreign Trade has notified lifting restrictions on 14 drugs yesterday, April 6.
UN helps Iraq overcome bottlenecks in battle against Covid-19
With a global shortage of supplies and equipment to fight the deadly coronavirus pandemic, the UN health agency has assisted in successfully producing urgently needed laboratory items for testing suspected COVID-19 cases in Iraq.
India puts brakes on hydroxycholoroquine drugs exports to US
By IAR Desk India has banned all exports of hydroxychloroquine, a malaria drug that President
Modes of transmission of virus causing COVID-19: implications for IPC precaution recommendations
Based on the available evidence WHO continues to recommend droplet and contact precautions for those people caring for COVID-19 patients and contact and airborne precautions for circumstances and settings in which aerosol generating procedures are performed
U.S. could be next ‘virus epicentre’, as India locks down, global recession looms
Confirmed coronavirus cases around the world exceeded 377,000 across 194 countries and territories as of early Tuesday, according to a Reuters tally, more than 16,500 of them fatal.
New WHO recommendations to prevent tuberculosis aim to save millions of lives
As we mark World TB Day 2020, the disease remains the world’s top infectious killer. In 2018, 10 million people fell ill with TB worldwide and 1.5 million people lost their lives to this disease.