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COVID-19 virus can last on face masks for a week, banknotes for days:...

The study found that the COVID-19 virus can stick to stainless steel and plastic surfaces for up to four days

6 April 2020 1:08 PM IST

When infection strikes, the body starts making proteins called antibodies specially designed to target that germ. Those antibodies float in survivors blood - specifically plasma, the yellowish liquid part of blood - for months, even years

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Treatment for 1918 Spanish flu, blood transfusions back on table for...

Patients are infused with blood plasma teeming with immune molecules that helped coronavirus survivors though there's no...

3 April 2020 6:14 PM IST

Hydroxychloroquine and the antibiotic azithromycin, which are being considered by some for treating COVID-19, may increase the risk for dangerous abnormal heart rhythms. (Representative Image)

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Hydroxychloroquine in demand despite lack of clinical evidence to...

Hydroxychloroquine entered the layperson's lexicon with Donald Trump's tweet on March 21.

3 April 2020 5:28 PM IST

London Ambulance staff walk past amblulances parked in the car park at the ExCeL London exhibition centre in London on March 29, 2020, which has been transformed into a field hospital to be known as the NHS Nightingale Hospital, to help with the novel coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic. (Photo | AFP)

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Indian-origin scientist fears UK's COVID-19 strategy took wrong path

Devi Sridhar warned that the UK could be in for an endless cycle of lockdown and release, even as the virus has claimed...

1 April 2020 5:19 PM IST

Old guidelines assume droplets to be one of two categories, small or large, taking short-range semi-ballistic trajectories when a person exhales, coughs, or sneezes. However based on more recent discoveries, the MIT scientist said, sneezes and coughs are made of a puff cloud that carries ambient air, transporting within it clusters of droplets of a wide range of sizes. (Photo | US Air Force - Kenna Jackson)

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Coronavirus can travel 8 metres from a sneeze, linger in air for...

Current guidelines may limit the effectiveness of the proposed interventions against the deadly pandemic, the...

1 April 2020 3:48 PM IST

Avigan will be administered for a maximum of 14 days to coronavirus patients between the age of 20 and 74 who have mild pneumonia, Fujifilm said. (Representative Image)

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Anti-flu drug Avigan being tested by Japan's Fujifilm to treat...

Trials in China have suggested Avigan could play a role in shortening the recovery time for patients infected with...

1 April 2020 2:37 PM IST

$A few days after the lockdown has been lifted, volunteers from a hospital enjoy a day off at a shopping street in Wuhan in central Chinas Hubei province Tuesday, March 31, 2020. China on Tuesday reported just one new death from the coronavirus and dozens of new cases, claiming that all new cases came from overseas. In Wuhan, people were ready to jump, cry and \revenge shop\ as the Chinese city once at the center of the outbreak reopened. (Photo | AP)$ Science