An antiobiotic-resistant gene that was initially discovered in India has been spotted in the Arctic region, some 16,000 kms away. The genetic bug's far-flung encroachment reveals how rapid and fast-moving the spread of antibiotic resistance has become. The bug was discovered in a remote terrain with almost no population save for some research groups and is said to have been carried over by migratory birds according to findings published in the Environmental International journal.

According to a CNBC&nbsp;report, American manufacturer of pharmaceutical and personal goods Johnson &amp; Johnson will begin human trials for a coronavirus&nbsp;vaccine in September this year. The company added that the Covid-19 vaccine&nbsp;could be ready for&nbsp;emergency use authorization by early 2021, if the candidate works out well. The same report also mentions that J&amp;J has increased its manufacturing capacity across the world to manufacture and distribute the potential vaccine quickly.&nbsp;

Australian researchers are about to kick-start&nbsp;large-scale human testing to see if a vaccine used for decades to prevent tuberculosis can protect health workers from Covid-19.&nbsp;The trial of the BCG vaccine will be conducted with 4,000 health workers in hospitals around Australia to determine if it can reduce COVID-19 symptoms and is expected to begin a few weeks, researchers at the Murdoch Children's Research Institute in Melbourne said. Researchers hope that improving people's "innate" immunity against COVID-19 symptoms would buy time to develop a specific vaccine against the disease.

The Justice KS Hegde Charitable Hospital in Deralakatte in Mangaluru has launched a unique tele-medicine department amid the 21-day nation-wide&nbsp;lockdown due to the coronavirus pandemic. Patients who wish to consult doctors and seek medical advise may do so via WhatsApp. Different doctors from different departments can be reached through the various WhatsApp help-lines.

A first for India, a team of&nbsp;scientists from the National Institute of Virology&nbsp;in Pune&nbsp;have captured the images of what coronavirus&nbsp;looks like using the transmission electron microscope imaging. They have been published in the Indian Journal of Medical Research.&nbsp;The images of the virus are from the throat swab of the first laboratory confirmed case in India reported on January 30 and reveal&nbsp;the presence of stalk-like projections ending in round&nbsp;structures typical of a coronavirus particle.

Russia's preparations to combat the novel&nbsp;coronavirus are under way as it builds a new hospital to cater to the patients. According to Moscow's Deputy Mayor, the new hospital will have over 500 intensive care beds to deal with severe cases of the virus. Apart from that, more than 13,000 beds will be ready in the existing hospitals in Moscow in the days to come.&nbsp;

In the race to find a vaccine against the novel coronavirus, the University of Oxford has begun screening healthy volunteers between the age of 18 and 55 for a human trial. The trial will involve over 500 volunteers to assess the safety of the vaccine and to see if it fights Covid-19 by generating an immune response. The particular vaccine technology has been chosen as it may generate a strong immune response in one dose and is safer to administer to varied age groups, say the scientists.

India takes the first step towards the development of the&nbsp;Covid-19 vaccine as&nbsp;University of Hyderabad joins the scientific race.&nbsp;Researcher,&nbsp;Dr Seema Mishra&nbsp;from the university has&nbsp;developed a &ldquo;vaccine candidate&rdquo;, crossing the first hurdle in preventing the spread of the novel coronavirus. She identified the vaccine candidates as &lsquo;T cell epitopes&rsquo;. They will help in understanding all structural and non-structural&nbsp;proteins of Covid-19 for experimental testing.&nbsp;A ranked list of potential candidate vaccines, based on how effectively they will be used by human cells to stop the virus, has been generated, and further investigation and experiments are required to provide conclusive evidence.
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The government has issued a health advisory for the elderly population during the Covid-19 pandemic which includes advising them not to go for routine checkups to hospital. Elderly people have been asked to make tele-consultation with your healthcare provider as far as possible. It has also advised the elderly to postpone elective surgeries like cataract surgery or total knee replacement.

The government has launched a toll-free helpline number for people who may face any mental health issue due to the ongoing countrywide lockdown to contain the spread of coronavirus.&nbsp;In its daily briefing on the coronavirus situation in the country, the health ministry said on Sunday the National Institute of Mental Health and&nbsp;Neuro-Sciences&nbsp;has launched the number.&nbsp;Earlier, WHO had warned that the coronavirus crisis and the restrictive measures can have a negative impact on people's mental health and well-being.&nbsp;

Practo, a leading digital healthcare start-up on Saturday announced that Covid-19 tests are now available on the platform. Bengaluru-based Practo has partnered with Thyrocare to conduct the detection tests, which has been authorised by the Government of India and the Indian Council of Medical Research. Practo is starting the test with Mumbai residents and will soon expand it to the rest of the country. A valid doctor's prescription, duly filled Test Requisition Form signed by the physician, and a photo ID card has to be presented at the time of testing. The test will be available at a cost of Rs 4,500 and can be booked online.

The lack of protective gear for health workers battling the COVID-19 pandemic is one of the most pressing threats in the fight to prevent deaths, the World Health Organization warned&nbsp; on Friday.&nbsp;WHO chief Tedros Adhanom&nbsp;shared that the global health body&nbsp;has shipped almost two million individual items of personal protective equipment&nbsp;to 74 countries and was preparing to send a similar amount to a further 60 countries.&nbsp;He urged the G20 countries to use their "industrial might and innovation" to produce and distribute the tools needed to save more lives.

Amid the fast-spreading pandemic, researchers, including one of Indian-origin, have found that half of the patients they treated for mild Covid-19 infection still carried the coronavirus pathogen for up to eight days after symptoms disappeared.&nbsp;In a study, published in the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, researchers picked 16 Covid-19 patients, who were treated and released from the PLA General Hospital in China between January 28 and February 9.&nbsp;Patients studied had a median age of 35.5 years.&nbsp;Researchers suggest extending quarantine for at least two more weeks even after recovery, just to be on the safe side.

British charity The London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and Durham University will be working with medical detection dogs to determine if they could help sniff out the Covid-19 virus. The new research follows previous studies of&nbsp;their ability to diagnosis&nbsp;malaria through their keen sense of smell and is based on a belief that each disease triggers a distinct odour. Rsearchers have started&nbsp;preparations to train dogs in six weeks "to help provide a rapid, non-invasive diagnosis towards the tail end of the epidemic".&nbsp;The charity has previously trained dogs to detect diseases such as cancer, Parkinson's and bacterial infections by sniffing samples taken from patients.

India is soon likely to participate in the WHO's multi-country "solidarity trial" for developing potential treatments for COVID-19, Union Health Ministry officials said on Friday. The priority of the Indian Council of Medical Research in developing drugs is more towards re-purposing&nbsp;molecules instead of creating new ones. The&nbsp;Head of Epidemiology and Communicable diseases at ICMR said that the Department of Biotechnology has been looking into the vaccine development programme. About 30 scientific groups are working on creating a vaccine worldwide, and at least five have started animal trials. India is&nbsp;willing to go for vaccine trials if they pass out on animal study for our population, said experts.&nbsp;

The US Food and Drug Administration has approved the use of plasma from recovered patients to treat people who are critically ill with covid-19, provided that doctors get prior approval. The method has been used in the past to treat diseases such as polio, measles, and mumps, in the 1918 flu epidemic, and in previous outbreaks of respiratory infections similar to Covid-19, according to the BMJ&nbsp;Journal. New York state governor, Andrew Cuomo&nbsp;said that it is a trial to treat people in a serious condition.&nbsp;Plasma from people who have recovered from Covid-19 may contain antibodies to the virus that causes the disease and might be effective against the infection, the FDA said

Indian startups and&nbsp;engineers are joining the fight against the coronavirus pandemic by working on creating&nbsp;low-cost ventilators that could aid the country's medical infrastructure and fill the shortage of ventilators.&nbsp;Bengaluru-based startup, Biodesign Innovations Labs has created&nbsp;a low-cost, portable mechanical ventilation assist device called&nbsp;RespirAid, and is looking to mass&nbsp;manufacture to meet the surge in demand. Two graduates from IIT-Kanpur,&nbsp;who run a start-up called "Nocca Robotics", have also developed a prototype for a portable ventilator. The ventilator can be made at a cost of Rs 70,000 with Indian components, they claim, and they hope to get around 1000 portable ventilators ready within a month.
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Italian researchers at the University of Milan are looking at whether a higher than usual number of cases of severe pneumonia and flu in Lombardy in the last quarter of 2019 could be a signal that the new coronavirus might have spread beyond China earlier than previously thought. Researchers said that&nbsp;here had been a "significant" increase in people hospitalized for pneumonia and flu in Milan and Lodi between October and December last year. The team is now reviewing hospital records and clinical details of those cases.&nbsp;Italy, which has the highest number of COVID-19 deaths in the world, recorded its first case of infection on Feb. 21, though some scientists think that the virus began circulating at least a month earlier.

Addressing a global webinar, Professor&nbsp;Karen Swartz&nbsp;from the Johns Hopkins University shared some quick tips&nbsp;to help people cope with stress and social isolation, calling it the 'new normal'.&nbsp;The virus has also given the world its first infodemic &ndash; an explosion of information on the Internet, but&nbsp;Swartz&nbsp; advices to limit how much we watch the news, go to credible news sources and not read news just before sleeping. Better sleep hygiene, meditation and a daily routine are important, she said.&nbsp;Cultivating healthy mental health during the pandemic requires building resilience. Exercising, moving around and taking up tasks help change negative thoughts to positive, she added.

According to a report by the&nbsp;COV-IND-19 Study Group, India could see about 10 to 13 lakh confirmed cases of the novel&nbsp;coronavirus by mid-May if it continues to spread at its current pace. While the frequency of testing has been very low in India, the accuracy of test results, and the scale of testing of people who may have been exposed but do not show symptoms are also crucial factors.&nbsp;The scientists said that these projections could change as the country conducts more tests and has a better assessment of&nbsp;the number of 'truly affected cases'.&nbsp;
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As the nation sits at home following government orders, a female cop in Bengaluru&nbsp;won hearts on the street. ACP&nbsp;Tabarak&nbsp;Fathima&nbsp;asked people standing nearby to stay indoors. She ended her advice by asking people to join her as she sang a remixed coronavirus-version of the song,&nbsp;'Hum Honge&nbsp;Kammyab.'&nbsp;

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