As Italy grapples with the outbreak of coronavirus, some institutions have decided to conduct classes online so the curriculum does not suffer. One such institution is the Prealpi Technical Institute in Saronno. They've initiated virtual classes through various platforms that allow students and teachers to be in touch through conference calls. From homework correction to live teaching, everything is being done virtually. Parents are also given feedback on their children via WhatsApp group links with the teacher.

As Italy grapples with the outbreak of coronavirus, some institutions have decided to conduct classes online so the curriculum does not suffer. One such institution is the Prealpi Technical Institute in Saronno. They've initiated virtual classes through various platforms that allow students and teachers to be in touch through conference calls. From homework correction to live teaching, everything is being done virtually. Parents are also given feedback on their children via WhatsApp group links with the teacher.

Not just physical, the coronavirus&nbsp;pandemic and the stresses brought upon by it are having a massive impact on our mental health as well. A report by Lybrate, a health and wellness platform, has found that online consultations for mental health issues have increased by over 180 per cent compared to pre-pandemic levels. The platform saw a 255 per cent surge in consultations from women and 150 per cent from men. The highest jump was witnessed in the city of Mumbai at 205 per cent, followed by Delhi, Pune, Ahmedabad, Chennai, Bengaluru and Kolkata, all falling&nbsp;in the 100 to 200 per cent increase range.&nbsp;

A favourite of writers and creatives, the iconic Indian Coffee House in Kolkata's&nbsp;College Street reopened on Thursday, 103 days after shutting down due to the Covid-19 pandemic.&nbsp;The eatery will be open from 11 am to 6 pm every day excepting Sundays. In the pre-COVID era, the Coffee House usually operated between 9 am and 9 pm.
To ensure social distancing, fewer than normal customers will be allowed on the two floors of the heritage eatery, which has been frequented by renowned poets, intellectuals and artists including the likes of Satyajit Ray and Amartya Sen&nbsp;among others.&nbsp;

The Karnataka&nbsp;government has ordered all facilities treating Covid-19 patients to provide a nutritious diet to all infected persons. The new diet plan is issued in an effort to boost the immunity of virus patients under treatment. As per the diet, breakfast will be served at 7 am and can be dishes like rava&nbsp;idli, pongal, set dosa, or&nbsp;bisi&nbsp;beli bath. After breakfast, patients should get a serving of seasonal fresh fruit followed by lunch at 1 pm. The lunch menu will comprise of&nbsp;roti, chapati, palya, rice, dal, egg and curd. At 5 pm, patients will get&nbsp;one banana and three cookies, two protein cookies, two dates and a mango bar for vitamin C. The dinner, served at 7 pm is almost the same as lunch followed by a glass of flavoured milk at 9 pm.&nbsp;

Japan has launched a new bullet train that isn't just faster but can also function safely during an earthquake.&nbsp;
Called N700S, where the 'S' stands for Supreme, the train&nbsp;can run up to 360 kilometres per hour, which was a record set by the train in 2019. The train has now been launched for public use from July 1 and connects the Tokyo Station and Shin-Osaka Station in Osaka.&nbsp;
In a first, the train is fitted with a lithium-ion battery self-propulsion system, that allows it to operate on its own for a short distance in case of a power outage. This will let the train transport its passengers to a safe location in case of an earthquake.&nbsp;

The&nbsp;Indian Council of Medical Research has asked medical institutions involved in trials for India's first Covid-19 vaccine, to fast-track the clinical trial approvals. The hospitals involved have been ordered to begin subject enrolment no later than July 7. Developed by Bharat&nbsp;Biotech in partnership with ICMR and the National Institute of Virology, the DGCI&nbsp;recently approved human clinical trials for Covaxin. ICMR&nbsp;has set Aug 15 as the launch date for the vaccine's public health use but the&nbsp;final outcome will depend on the cooperation of all clinical trial sites involved in this project, the top health body said. Reports say ICMR's letter to Bharat Biotech also comes attached with a warning, deliver on time or face consequences.&nbsp;

Teams of painters and artists gathered for a second day on Thursday to paint a "Black Lives Matter" mural in the middle of a street that passes federal buildings in lower Manhattan.
Endorsed by city leaders, three up-and-coming Black artists from New York were chosen to stylize the letters of each of the three words.&nbsp;The mural sits adjacent to the Thurgood Marshall federal courthouse, named after the first Black U.S. Supreme Court justice.
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Scientists from&nbsp;UCLA have designed a high-tech glove,&nbsp; capable of converting sign language into speech in real-time. The wearable device eradicates the need for a translator, helping users to communicate with ease. Based on the American Sign Language, the sensors attached on the fingers and thumb of the glove help make sense of each word, phrase or letter with accuracy. To test the device, they attached adhesive sensors on faces of volunteers to capture facial expressions that are a part of ASL. These signals are then sent to a smartphone that translates them into spoken words. Scientists hope that the innovation will help people learn sign language.&nbsp;

Science and Technology Minister Harsh Vardhan and HRD Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal&nbsp;have launched a 'Drug Discovery Hackathon' project and invited students and researchers to participate in it with an aim to develop an anti-Covid-19&nbsp;drug. The initiative is being jointly carried out by the Ministry of Human Resources Development and the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR).&nbsp;The CSIR has been re-purposing drugs to help patients recover from the novel coronavirus.

Dr. Fuad Halim is doing all it takes to save lives amid the pandemic&nbsp;as treatment for Covid-19 takes priority in health-care centres. The 49-year-old doctor runs a small dialysis unit in Kolkata&nbsp;and is offering the procedure, critical for kidney&nbsp;patients,&nbsp;at just ₹50. The facility has been set up under NGO&nbsp;Kolkata Swasthya Sankalpa, which he runs along with his friends and relatives. Ever since the lockdown began, Halim and his team has performed 2,190 procedures, aiming to treat both Covid-19 positive and negative patients with utmost precautions. They conduct an average of 35 to 40 dialysis&nbsp;a day.

According to researchers from the University of Virginia School of Medicine, a blood&nbsp;test may be able to predict the severity of Covid-19 and which&nbsp;patients are likely to need&nbsp;a ventilator.&nbsp;The finding could lead to a scoring system that would flag at-risk patients for closer monitoring and personalized treatments. The study focused on 57 Covid-19 patients who needed a ventilator to&nbsp;breath. They found that blood levels of a certain cytokine&nbsp;can predict the course of Covid-19.&nbsp;Cytokines are proteins that are central to the&nbsp;immune system, and their overreaction&nbsp;is a sign of severe Covid-19.&nbsp;Researchers also found higher levels of two cytokines in patients with high&nbsp;blood sugar. They said this may explain why&nbsp;diabetes&nbsp;is linked with worse Covid-19 outcomes. However, the study has not been peer-reviewed and should be considered preliminary.

The Indian Railways has shared that it achieved 100% punctuality on the 1st of July, for the first time in history since the services began.&nbsp;No trains were delayed among the 201 that ran on that day. The previous best was 99.54% on the 23rd of June with one train getting delayed. Indian Railways is running on a limited capacity with all regular passenger trains cancelled, and only&nbsp;special trains to ferry passengers stranded or those travelling out of necessity. Specific routes across the country have been devised to help movement amid the Covid-19 pandemic.

Researchers in Brazil discovered 2,248 fires in the Amazon last month, making it the highest number of fires recorded in June since 2007. According to the National Institute for Space Research, the heaviest burning season occurs in July, August and September. 1,880 fires were detected in June 2019. The increase may be attributed to ranchers and illegal loggers in the area amid the&nbsp;Covid-19 pandemic. Brazil has reported the second highest Covid-19 death toll in the world, and the raging fires could increase the risk of breathing trouble and respiratory illnesses.

Hindustan Unilever Limited has renamed its best-selling &lsquo;Fair &amp; Lovely&rsquo; products as &lsquo;Glow &amp; Lovely&rsquo;, days after it decided to change the nomenclature. The company was criticized&nbsp;for&nbsp;propagating racial stereotypes along with several other brands that promote fairness products, triggered by the Black Lives Matter movement. The men&rsquo;s range will be called &lsquo;Glow &amp; Handsome&rsquo;. However,&nbsp;Emami&nbsp;Limited has threatened legal action against HUL as it already changed the name of its men&rsquo;s fairness cream to &lsquo;Emami Glow &amp; Handsome&rsquo; and launched the brand digitally last week. According to a Bloomberg report, Fair &amp; Lovely garners $500 million in the domestic market alone.

A teenage&nbsp;model&nbsp;with&nbsp;Down&rsquo;s syndrome has been roped in by Gucci&nbsp;Beauty to star in its latest campaign featured online by Italian&nbsp;Vogue.&nbsp;18-year-old model from&nbsp;Essex,&nbsp;Ellie Goldstein&nbsp;was photographed by David PD Hyde wearing Gucci Mascara L&rsquo;Obscur. Hyde's aim was to show that &lsquo;beauty is everywhere and exists in every person&rsquo;.&nbsp;Goldstein&rsquo;s picture on Gucci Beauty's&nbsp;Instagram account has become the luxury fashion&nbsp;label&rsquo;s 'most liked post ever'.

In a startling revelation, a new study by the United Nations has found that&nbsp;at least $10 billion worth of precious metal like gold and platinum is dumped as electronic waste every year. According to the&nbsp;Global E-waste Monitor,&nbsp;2019 saw a record 54 million tonnes of e-waste worldwide, up by 21% in five years. The amount of e-waste is rising three times faster than the world population but only 17% of it was recycled in 2019, says the report. This waste poses a threat to human health and the environment, adding to the climate crisis. The short lifespan of products and a lack of regulation is responsible for the growing waste. Most of the precious metal is just dumped or burned. In terms of recycling waste, Europe had the highest percentage at 42% in 2020 followed by Asia at 12%.

Devastating forest fires continue to ravage Sakha Republic in the Russian Arctic. The Ministry of Emergency Situations confirmed that more than 2,000 hectares of forest are up in flames with strong winds accelerating&nbsp;the fires.&nbsp;Thick smoke has even begun to engulf Sakha Republic's capital cityYakutsk and a state of emergency has been declared by the government. Over 800 fire-fighters and forest rangers have been deployed to battle the flames and reinforcements are being flown in. The situation is leading to a surge in respiratory cases amid the pandemic, and additional strain on the health-care system.&nbsp;

A Mumbai-based doctor Richa Negi definitely rose the temperature with her moves on a popular Bollywood song, dressed in a full&nbsp;PPE suit. She brought joy to her colleagues as she shook a leg to the song 'Garmi'&nbsp;from the movie Street Dancer 3D, sharing&nbsp;that the vibe of the song matched how every doctor felt while wearing the PPE&nbsp;suit for hours! She encouraged her fellow colleagues to stay positive&nbsp;despite the tough working conditions.&nbsp;

Amid widespread travel restrictions and caution among people caused by the novel coronavirus, the global tourism industry may face losses of at least $1.2 trillion in 2020, according to a United Nations report. Published by the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, the report adds that if restrictions to international leisure travel continue until March 2021, losses may touch $3.3 trillion or equivalent to 1.5% of the world economy. The impact could be specifically harsh for island and developing nations. The report states that this may mean a reduction in Thailand's GDP by 9% and a loss of over 3% of GDP for tourist favourites like Egypt, Kenya and Malaysia. Other richer nations like Greece, Italy, Spain, the US and Portugal&nbsp;may also lose billions of dollars in the tourism industry.

Union Culture Minister Prahlad Patel announced on Thursday that all&nbsp;monuments protected by ASI will be reopened for the public from July 6.
The culture ministry had reopened around 820 monuments in June out of more than 3,000 monuments under ASI's&nbsp;purview, where religious events are organised.
Due to the coronavirus&nbsp;pandemic, almost 3,690 ASI-maintained monuments and archaeological&nbsp;sites&nbsp;were shut down on March 17 to prevent virus spread. Reopened monuments will follow all safety protocols and the wearing of masks may become mandatory for entry.&nbsp;

As the number of Covid-19 cases continues to grow, experts recommend that we must wash and disinfect everything properly before using it. Since food is a major part of that, the&nbsp;Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) has released its own guidelines on how to clean fruits and vegetables.&nbsp;
FSSAI&nbsp;suggests keeping the produce bought from vendors in the packet itself isolated for some time.&nbsp;
Wash them thoroughly with lukewarm water or put a drop of 50ppm chlorine in warm water and dip them in it. Clean the produce with potable or drinking water.
The food body recommends against using disinfectants, wipes or soap on fresh produce. However, in an earlier post FSSAI&nbsp;said that&nbsp;in case of food packages, you can disinfect by wiping them with an alcohol-based solution or soap and clean water.

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