As the coronavirus has spread to various parts of the globe, animal rights activists in South Korea demanded a ban on the slaughter of small animals. They gathered in Seoul and encouraged fellow citizens to avoid eating wild animals as they claimed that wild animals may be the source of the outbreak however there is no confirmation yet. The country has reported over 500 new cases of COVID-19 on Saturday, taking its total infections tally to close to 3000.

As the coronavirus has spread to various parts of the globe, animal rights activists in South Korea demanded a ban on the slaughter of small animals. They gathered in Seoul and encouraged fellow citizens to avoid eating wild animals as they claimed that wild animals may be the source of the outbreak however there is no confirmation yet. The country has reported over 500 new cases of COVID-19 on Saturday, taking its total infections tally to close to 3000.

In a bid to provide accommodation&nbsp;to those at the frontline of the coronavirus&nbsp;pandemic,&nbsp;Taj Hotels group properties , owned by the Tata group in Mumbai is offering its rooms for them free of cost. Doctors and other medical staff working at the municipal-run hospitals can avail&nbsp;these facilities. The rooms are available at a&nbsp;few of their hotels, including Taj Mahal Palace, Taj Lands End, and Taj Santacruz. The aim is to avoid doctors from making home visits and give them a place to rest close by without worrying about long commutes or meals. Ginger Hotels in Noida and Madgaon in Goa will also provide their rooms to medical professionals in those cities.

According to a yet-to-be peer reviewed meta-analysis of 32 studies published in MedRxiv, a server for health sciences, men are three times more likely to die from the novel&nbsp;coronavirus&nbsp;than women.&nbsp;Men&nbsp;had a significantly higher death rate about 9.2% compared to 3.4% for women, showed the analysis of 4,700 hospitalised patients. These findings could indicate the need for a more aggressive treatment in males. Data from China first revealed that men accounted for about 64% of deaths while a similar gender gap emerged in Italy with men accounting for 71% of Covid-19 deaths. Researchers still don&rsquo;t know why it is happening but smoking and higher coronary artery disease rates in men may play a role, they said.&nbsp;

Aerobiosys Innovations, an IIT Hyderabad&nbsp;incubated start-up, has created a portable, emergency use ventilator to aid the fight against the novel&nbsp;coronavirus. The low-cost ventilator, called Jeevan Lite, can be operated through a phone application and is battery-operated, with a capacity to function for five hours without power supply. The device will be priced at Rs 1 lakh and the company has plans to produce at least 50-70 units per day. Jeevan Lite will be able to perform invasive and non invasive ventilation and is suitable for both adult and pediatric patients, the company said.

In the war against the coronavirus pandemic, the Indian Railways has stepped up all efforts to ensure India is equipped to contain the spread of the illness. Till date, all production units and zones of the railways has manufactured about 2.6 lakh masks and up to 25,000 litres of sanitiser. The railway authority is also involved in manufacturing hospital beds and saline stands for patients amid shortages in the country. They've even converted some train coaches into isolation wards as a&nbsp;part of quarantine facilities.

The US Centres for Disease Control and Prevention suggests that a six feet distance should be maintained between yourself and others to prevent the transmission of the novel coronavirus&nbsp;as opposed to the three-feet guideline shared by the WHO. But, a MIT&nbsp;researcher shares that even six feet is not enough!&nbsp;Lydia Bourouiba&nbsp;has been studying the dynamics of exhalations including&nbsp;coughs and sneezes, for years and finds that&nbsp;exhalations cause gaseous clouds that can travel up to 27 feet!&nbsp;Lydia Bourouiba&nbsp;told USA&nbsp;TODAY that there is an urgent need to revise social distancing guidelines issued by the CDC&nbsp;and the WHO, especially for health workers. Her article has been published in the Journal of the American Medical Association.&nbsp;

People living in Covid-19 hotspots or areas which have reported large numbers of cases may have to undergo a rapid antibody blood test for the viral infection to ensure speedy detection.&nbsp;The Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) in its interim advisory has recommended the use of the rapid antibody test in the country's&nbsp;20 existing and 22 potential COVID-19 hotspots&nbsp;as identified by the Health Ministry.&nbsp;The results of the antibody tests, similar to other blood tests, are available in 15-30 minutes.&nbsp;&nbsp;

Researchers&nbsp;at the University of Pittsburgh&nbsp;have tested a potential vaccine for COVID-19 in mice, and it was successful&nbsp;in generating antibodies to fight the coronavirus&nbsp;within two weeks.&nbsp;The vaccine, called&nbsp;PittCoVacc - short for Pittsburgh Coronavirus Vaccine, was delivered through a&nbsp;band-aid sized patch with micro-needles.&nbsp;Through previous research, they found that a particular spike protein is important for inducing immunity against the virus.&nbsp;They used lab-made pieces of viral protein to build immunity and said that it works the same way as current flu shots. The tiny needles&nbsp;deliver the spike proteins into the skin, where the immune reaction is strongest. The team hopes to advance to human trials faster than the usual time-frame.&nbsp;

According to a BBC report, a panel of advisers to the&nbsp;World Health Organization will be reviewing the current advice on the use of face masks to prevent the spread of the coronavirus based on a new research. A MIT&nbsp;study has&nbsp;found that coughs and sneezes&nbsp;can project liquid up to 6m to 8m away.&nbsp;The WHO recommends keeping a distance of at least 1m from anyone coughing or sneezing and says that only those who are sick and show symptoms should wear masks. The global health body is opening up its discussion again looking at the new evidence to see whether or not it should change its advice on using masks.&nbsp;

Bengaluru&nbsp;start-up&nbsp;Bione&nbsp;has created a rapid Covid-19 at-home testing kit. The company claims that it displays accurate results within 5 to 10 minutes and is priced anywhere between Rs 2000 and 3000. However, the company expressed a note of caution stating that irrespective&nbsp;of the result of their home screening test, people with Covid-19 symptoms must undergo a laboratory test under expert supervision. The Bione kits have been approved by ICMR and are in the process of seeking US FDA's approval, the company stated.

Tiffany Pinckney, a New York woman was among the first Covid-19 survivors in the United States to donate convalescent plasma. The single-mother of two sons was seriously ill with the infection and only hoped she wouldn't pass it on. Now, that she's made a complete recovery, she hopes that something in her blood would help others. According to researchers, the antibodies that survivors have built may be able to give protection to those who may have been exposed to coronavirus and keep them from getting critically ill. A similar treatment was used during the 1918 Spanish Flu. According to a doctor at the New York Blood Center, a donation like Pinckney's could help four patients.

To contain the spread of the novel coronavirus, Tirupur in Tamil Nadu has got a one-of-a-kind disinfection tunnel. Set up at the Thennampalayam market, the aim is to keep visitors, who come to shop, safe. Visitors are made to pass through the 16-feet tunnel before entering the market. The portable tunnel is made of steel and has been designed by a Tirupur-based businessman D Venkatesh.

A team of doctors from medical college&nbsp;PGIMER Chandigarh, have come up with a prototype of an affordable AMBU&nbsp;device, which could aid in the fight against the coronavirus.&nbsp;The prototype of the emergency ventilator was developed in collaboration with a&nbsp;start-up company,&nbsp;Gyrodrive Machineries Ltd based in&nbsp;Pune. The device is operated by a small motor that automatically pumps the bag at the required rate. AMBU bags provide a short-term alternative to expensive ventilators.

A strange partnership has emerged amid virus crisis as major tobacco companies join the race to help develop a vaccine for Covid-19. According to a Bloomberg&nbsp;report, Cigarette&nbsp;brands&nbsp;Philip Morris and British American Tobacco have begun working with biotech&nbsp;firms in USA&nbsp;and Canada to start animal and human trials of potential vaccines. The alliance may sound odd as the WHO has actually said that smoking hampers your recovery from&nbsp;coronavirus.&nbsp;

Hand-washing is an important precautionary measure to protect yourself against the novel coronavirus. But, in areas where continuous&nbsp;water supply is a problem, it could be troublesome. The World Health Organisation has shared a DIY&nbsp;'tippy tap' which is an economical way to make a tap with materials commonly available. With just few sticks, a container with water, strings and a soap, watch how it's made.

The Duke Clinical Research Institute is all set to start clinical trials of&nbsp;hydroxychloroquine, a medicine used to prevent and treat malaria, to ascertain how well it protects health-care workers against the Covid-19 virus. The trial will recruit&nbsp;15,000 people across 40 sites in the US to participate in a randomized, placebo-controlled trial set to test its effectiveness.&nbsp;Trump had earlier&nbsp;said that&nbsp;hydroxychloroquine shows &ldquo;tremendous promise&rdquo; against the new coronavirus, but there's not enough scientific evidence to prove it. A separate trial by the The University of Minnesota launched in March is underway to&nbsp;test whether the malaria drug can prevent the progression of Covid-19.&nbsp;

Inching towards a treatment for the novel coronavirus, a team of Chinese scientists claim to have found antibodies that may be effective in blocking the&nbsp;coronavirus from entering human cells. Researchers from the Tsinghua University in Beijing stated that a potential drug with the antibodies could pave the way for possible treatment. Early this year, the team isolated about 206 antibodies from blood taken from recovered patients. Four were able to block the entry and two were &lsquo;exceedingly&rsquo; good, said the scientists. The team now aims to identify the most powerful antibody and combine it to prevent the coronavirus from mutating. The team hopes it can be trialled on humans in six months, however, experts expressed caution, stating that many more steps need to be taken before something is finalised.

A team of veterinarian researchers is leading a volunteer effort at the Complutense University of Madrid to analyse coronavirus tests after putting its facilities at the service of the Spanish Health Ministry. Nurses from the university's health care unit took nasal swabs and the research relies on the veterinary school's facilities which are equipped to safely handle the incoming tests and virus in the samples.&nbsp;The team has around 30 researches, of which around a third are from the university's veterinary department.

Companies have been asked to stop selling all forms of the heartburn drug Zantact, after the US Food and Drug Administration found low levels of a 'potentially dangerous' cancer-causing chemical in them late last year. Consumers were warned to stop taking any over-the-counter forms of the drug such as ranitidine. The contaminant that was found in Zantac was ascertained to be a type of cancer-causing NDMA. The FDA has found that the contaminants in some products increase over time and when stored at higher than room temperatures and may result in exposure to unacceptable levels of this impurity. It advised consumers to consult their doctors before stopping the medication and chosing an alternative.

To tackle the spread of the novel coronavirus, authorities in Sarajevo, the Bosnian capital have started installing disinfection tunnels outside the administration buildings. Whoever passes through the tunnel is coated in and inhales certain vaporized disinfectants. The soles of the shoes also get disinfected. It is the brainchild of Sarajevo based Grizelj that specialises in producing government-approved disinfectant solutions and other equipment.

A potential drug treatment for the novel coronavirus&nbsp;is set to start trials in the UK. The drug called&nbsp;remdesivir, has been manufactured by a&nbsp;pharmaceutical company Gilead. The trial will involve 2 studies,&nbsp;one on patients with moderate symptoms, and the other on those who are in a serious condition in England and Scotland. The work behind the drug stretches over 10 years.

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