Husna, Amity University Kolkata Stockpiling of the vaccines and vaccine nationalism: The COVID-19 pandemic represents a serious public health concern. It has an incredibly high spreading rate. Hence, the detection and neutralization of the COVID-19 are of utmost importance. The only way to beat the COVID-19 pandemic is via universal vaccination against Covid-19. However, the […]
Sayak Banerjee, Amity University Kolkata COVID-19 has already taken over 4 million lives around the world, hence testing is essential for understanding the virus and controlling its spread. Currently, the tests are restricted by two factors, time taken and the accuracy required for analyzing a sample. The third factor which poses a challenge towards the […]
Kanikah Mehndiratta, MSc, University of Glasgow Delta variant has been a recent SARS-CoV-2 strain that is building serious concern among researchers. The COVID-19 disease has proven deadly with newer strains evolving from various regions globally. A lot of research went onto developing vaccines that work against various SARS-CoV-2 strains. The newly evolved strains tend to […]
Agrima Bhatt, Rajasthan University The present COVID-19 pandemic has impacted all of the world and its inhabitants. However, depending on our status as individuals as well as members of society, the pandemic’s impact and repercussions were perceived at different scales. While some people are starting to adjust to working online, online education and schooling for […]
Kanikah Mehndiratta, MSc, University of Glasgow The spread of SARS-CoV-2 has been devastating to human health globally with a recent death count of about 4 million. A major concern amongst scientists has been the reverse zoonosis which could seriously aggravate the spread of the virus. This could also result in newer variants evolving in animal […]
Sayak Banerjee, Amity University Kolkata In this current spread of outbreaks, specifically with the emergence of more transmissible variants, frequent rapid testing for COVID-19 is a vital requirement. For that purpose, qRT-PCR (quantitative reverse-transcriptase-polymerase chain reaction), the gold standard COVID-19 diagnostic test, is employed these days. This method generally entails specialized equipment, a centralized laboratory facility, […]
Aayushi Gaur, U. I. E. T., Kurukshetra University Doctors battled to keep patients breathing in the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic, focusing mostly on treating lung and circulatory system damage. However, evidence of neurological consequences was already collecting at the time. Some COVID-19 patients were suffering from delirium, which manifested as confusion, disorientation, and […]
Vaishnavi Kardale, Bioinformatics Centre, Savitribai Phule Pune University The COVID-19 pandemic has been around for a year and a half, causing the death of thousands and infecting millions worldwide. Due to its highly contagious nature, the most effective way to keep the spread under control is to keep social distance and contact tracing. Hence, early […]
Sneha Singhal, Jaypee Institute of information technology, Noida Pfizer Inc. and Merck & Co. in the race to find treatments for Covid-19 have joined a Japanese company in starting human trials for the first once-daily pill. Shionogi and Co., of Osaka, claimed that its pill would neutralize the Coronavirus in five days or less. The […]
Sagnik Nag, Vellore Institute of Technology (VIT) World Breastfeeding Week has been commemorated yearly in about 120 provinces since 1991. Celebrated every first 7 days of August, World Breastfeeding Week attempts to accentuate the massive benefits that breastfeeding can induce to both the fitness and well-being of newborns, as well as a campaign for maternal […]
