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.

The United States is home to some of the world's most s&nbsp;most beautiful natural landscapes and now you can experience them right from the comfort of your couch.&nbsp;Google Arts &amp; Culture&nbsp;has partnered with some famous national parks in the U.S. to give people a virtual tour of these natural wonders. From rocky mountain to snowy terrains, there's a lot to explore. Hawaii&rsquo;s Volcanoes National Park,&nbsp;California&rsquo;s Yosemite National Park, Wyoming&rsquo;s Yellowstone National Park, and Montana&rsquo;s Glacier National Park are few on the list.&nbsp;

The WHO has shared that the elderly and those with pre-existing medical conditions are most vulnerable to the Covid-19 virus.&nbsp;While India stays at home amid a 21-day lockdown,&nbsp;NGOs are lending a helping hand by providing them with groceries and other essentials. Action For Pune Development is helping senior citizens who need groceries and medicines.&nbsp;Delhi-based&nbsp;Samvedna Senior Care is offering mental health support&nbsp;if senior citizens experience anxiety issues due to the lockdown.&nbsp;Youngistaan Foundation is reaching out to the people above the age of 60 in Hyderabad. 38-year-old Mahita Nagaraj&nbsp;has started Caremonger India in Bengaluru. She drops off daily necessities at the homes of the elderly, or those who have special needs and cannot venture out.

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.

Some of the biggest fashion events on the global calendar, Paris and London's&nbsp;Men's Fashion Week, New York's Resort Week and France's&nbsp;Haute&nbsp;Couture Week have been cancelled due to the coronavirus pandemic, announced the organisers on March 27. The events were due to take place in June and July. While the Italian fashion body has said that the Milan's Men's Fashion Week will be postponed and merged with the women's Fashion Week, set to take place in September 2020.&nbsp;&nbsp;

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.

Several videos of, wild animals freely wandering on otherwise crowded streets and bustling urban settings in India, have emerged on social media over the last few days as the country faces a 21-day lockdown to curb the coronavirus. Rare shots of a&nbsp;deer strolling in Haridwar, mass nesting turtles and a Nilgai&nbsp;breaking curfew rules in Noida have been circulating on social media, and the latest trending video from Kerala&nbsp;shows what seems like an endangered Malabar civet calmly crossing a usually busy street in Kozhikode district.

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;

A letter from 25 leading experts, published in the journal Nature, warns that the&nbsp;coronavirus pandemic could wipe out populations of chimpanzees, gorillas and orangutans.&nbsp;Our closest living relatives, which share about 98% of human DNA, are known to be susceptible to catching respiratory diseases from people. Even pathogens producing mild symptoms in humans have been lethal to these endangered species&nbsp;in the past. There's evidence that in 2016 scientists reported the&nbsp;transmission of a human coronavirus&nbsp;to wild chimpanzees in the Ta&iuml; National Park in Ivory Coast, and so we should prepare for the worst, say experts.

A scientific paper, published in Nature, indicates a rare environmental success.&nbsp;The&nbsp;ozone layer&nbsp;is continuing to heal and has the potential to fully recover, say scientists. Experts confirm that changes in the jet stream and air circulation patterns are evidences of the recovery of the Earth&rsquo;s protective ozone layer. These changes are due to the shrinking ozone hole following the implementation of the Montreal Protocol, that banned the use of chlorofluorocarbons in 1987, says the study and that indicates&nbsp;the success of the protocol.&nbsp;The study serves as an example of the reversal of environmental damage and shows that orchestrated global action can make a difference.

The German federal government has announced a $54 billion aid package for artists and cultural and creative businesses.&nbsp;"Artists are not only indispensable, but also vital, especially now," said the country's culture minister. England&rsquo;s art council&nbsp;announced&nbsp;a significantly smaller package of $190 million in support, while in New York, the Metropolitan Museum of Art&nbsp;is calling&nbsp;on the government to give US museums a $4 billion bailout.

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

The Indian Embassy in the United States has announced free online yoga classes for the millions of Americans to keep them "healthy" and "cheerful" while they are forced to stay indoors and work from home due to the fast spreading coronavirus.&nbsp;The free yoga class will be imparted daily from Monday to Friday at 5 pm and will be streamed live through the Facebook page of the Indian Embassy. In its latest guide,&nbsp;&nbsp;Harvard Medical School also suggested yoga and breathing exercise as a way to cope with coronavirus&nbsp;anxiety.&nbsp;

Miss Universe pageant winners from across the world have joined the fight against the coronavirus&nbsp;and are urging people to stay at home and practise social distancing.&nbsp;Pageant queens are sharing their quarantine&nbsp;stories and positive messages while the world gets used to the 'new normal' of being home.&nbsp;

Indian food products company Parle&nbsp;Products shared that it will distribute about three crore packs of biscuits in the next three weeks, specially to the needy people through government agencies.&nbsp;The company said its manufacturing units are functioning with 50% of the workforce keeping with government advisories to curb escalation of the&nbsp;coronavirus outbreak, but it is working to ensure that sufficient quantity of its products are available in the market.

An informal group formed by designer Navonil Das of Kolkata fashion label Dev r Nil has written a letter to Minister of Textiles Smriti&nbsp;Irani and Minister of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises&nbsp;Nitin Gadkari&nbsp;with an appeal to support&nbsp;karigars, designers and local&nbsp;artisans across all sectors, according to a report by publication The Voice Of Fashion. The appeal lists five points including unemployment&nbsp;pay cover, delay in utility bill payments and freeze on rental dues.&nbsp;The signatories include Abraham &amp; Thakore, Gaurav Gupta, Tarun Tahiliani, Nikhil Thampi, and&nbsp;Rohit Bal among many others.&nbsp;&nbsp;

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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The 2020 edition of Art Basel, one of the largest art fairs in the world, scheduled to be held in June this year, has been postponed due to the coronavirus pandemic. It will now be held from September 17 to September 20 at Messe Basel in Switzerland.&nbsp;The postponement of Art Basel comes after the cancellation of Art Basel&rsquo;s Hong Kong edition and Frieze Art Fair New York. Art Dubai&rsquo;s 2020 edition has also been postponed due to the pandemic.

A video of doctors singing the song 'Chhodo Kal Ki Baatein', wearing hazmat suits and face masks has gone viral on Twitter. The clip shows doctors from a hospital in&nbsp;Rajasthan's Bhilwara district where Covid-19 patients are being treated.&nbsp;
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi has shared a video of a young girl writing a letter to her father, asking him not to come back home and stay where he is&nbsp;during the&nbsp;21-day nation-wide lockdown to fight coronavirus. The inspiring awareness video urges people to be 'corona warriors'.&nbsp;"If you step out, then corona will win," says the girl.&nbsp;PM Modi&nbsp;had earlier shared that&nbsp;while 21 days might seem like a long time, "this is the only way to ensure that everyone is safe". He has been repeatedly advocating that staying at home is now a matter of survival.&nbsp;&nbsp;

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