UK begins world’s biggest Covid-19 trial to zero in on treatment, results likely by June
Bengaluru: The United Kingdom has launched the world’s largest randomised clinical trial for drugs to treat Covid-19. Called RECOVERY (Randomised Evaluation of Covid-19 Therapy), the nationwide trial aims “to identify treatments that may be beneficial to adults hospitalised” with the disease. The UK has recorded over 1 lakh cases of Covid-19, including Prime Minister Boris Johnson and Prince Charles (both have now recovered). […]
‘Painful’: Al-Aqsa closed for Ramadan over coronavirus
Jerusalem’s Al-Aqsa mosque compound will be closed to Muslim worshippers throughout the holy fasting month of Ramadan due to the coronavirus pandemic, Muslim clerics at Islam’s third-holiest site have announced. Jerusalem Islamic Waqf, the Jordan-appointed council that oversees Islamic sites on the sacred compound, called the decision “painful”. In a statement published on Thursday, the council […]
Trump’s approach to reopen economy leaves decisions to governors
US President Donald Trump gave governors a road map on Thursday for recovering from the economic pain of the coronavirus pandemic, laying out “a phased and deliberate approach” to restoring normal activity in places that have strong testing and are seeing a decrease in COVID-19 cases. “We’re starting our life again,” Trump said during his […]
Afghan forces intercept Taliban fighters, find Jaish terrorists training for Kashmir
A chance discovery of global terror outfit Jaish-e-Mohammed cadres in Afghanistan’s Nangarhar province on Monday night has confirmed the assessment of Indian intelligence agencies that Pakistan’s Inter Services Intelligence had resumed training a select groups of terrorists for Kashmir in war-torn Afghanistan, people familiar with the development told Hindustan Times. The Afghan forces had carried out […]
‘Irresponsible, Ill-Intentioned’: China Refutes US Remarks On Beijing Secretly Resuming Underground Nuclear Tests
China on Thursday said it was “committed” to a moratorium on nuclear tests as it strongly refuted as “irresponsible” and “ill-intentioned” the US remarks of the possibility of Beijing secretly resuming underground atomic experiments. The US State Department in a report on Wednesday said that China may have secretly set off low-level underground nuclear test […]
Bangladesh rescues hundreds of Rohingya adrift at sea; 24 dead
At least 24 Rohingya died at sea after their boat failed to reach Malaysia, the coastguard in Bangladesh said on Thursday after rescuring 396 Rohingya people from the vessel which had been adrift for weeks after failing to reach Malaysia. “They were at sea for about two months and were starving,” an official from the […]
Coronavirus: Australia’s economy faces unprecedented setbacks
The “miracle economy” that avoided recession during the 2007-2008 financial crisis, avoided the worst of the 1997 Asian financial crisis as well as the lancing of the dot.com bubble is in deep trouble. The Black Summer fires were adding to an escalating economic malaise but the coronavirus has inflicted a jolting collapse. In one week […]
Scientists divided over strain mutation: ‘Need more evidence’
A mutation in the coronavirus strain isolated in India has the potential to jeopardise global efforts to develop a vaccine against Covid-19, which has infected 2 million people and killed at least 126,000 in four months, according to a preliminary analysis of 106 Sars-CoV-2 and 39 SARS genome sequences. Scientists, however, warn against reliance on […]
Foreign dream will have to wait as Covid-19 layoffs in US cast shadow on IIT, IIM placements
New Delhi: IIT and IIM graduates with foreign dreams might find themselves in a fix as the economic fallout of the Covid-19 lockdown threatens the job prospects of H-1B visa holders in the US. Thousands of Indians work in the US on the prized H-1B, a non-immigration visa that allows American companies to hire foreign workers for roles that require […]
‘Hero’: Pakistani-American doctor takes on ventilator shortages
Saud Anwar is taking on the novel coronavirus on multiple fronts: as a Connecticut resident, a state senator, and first and foremost, he says, as a doctor. “I am just a doctor, who happens to be in [the] public and policy arena,” Dr Anwar, a pulmonary specialist in the United States, told Al Jazeera. “I’m […]
