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Indian Government Releases Source Codes For Its Covid-19 Contact-Tracing App
Ever since an app to trace coronavirus patients in India, called AarogyaSetu, was launched by the Indian government in April. privacy and security experts had been calling on the government to publicly release the source code of its contact-tracing app. The Indian government has now conceded to the...
UN Warns Of Impending "Major" Mental Health Crisis Due To Coronavirus Pandemic
The United Nations has warned that a major global mental health crisis could be sparked because of the novel coronavirus outbreak all across the world. the global body called out for immediate action and measures to combat the psychological suffering to people because of the pandemic. The...
Facebook records 50 million fake COVID-19 messages in April
Facebook discovered 50 million posts with false information about the coronavirus in April, the company said. "In April, we placed warning labels (about the presence of misinformation) on approximately 50 million units of content related to COVID-19," the company said in a statement. Facebook...
Dangerous inflammatory syndrome found in dozens children in New York
City and state New York authorities have reported dozens of cases of inflammatory syndrome, apparently associated with coronavirus. Children have an excessive immune response that affects organs. New York Mayor Bill de Blasio is alarmed by the spread of inflammatory syndrome among children, which...
Alphabet ditches idea to build Toronto smart city
Sidewalk Labs, an Alphabet-based company, has abandoned plans to build a smart city in Toronto. The decision was made due to economic uncertainty caused by the coronavirus pandemic. Alphabet's Sidewalk Labs will not build its previously planned smart Internet city in a remote industrial area of...
Apple, Google come up with COVID-19 spread tracking app
According to the developers, the application will not use geolocation, but will work via Bluetooth. The corporations say healthcare authorities will be responsible for launching it. On Monday, May 4, American corporations Apple and Google presented details regarding a special application for...
Usage Of Remdesivir For Coronavirus Treatment Authorized By US FDA
Remdesivir, an experimental drug that has been proven to be able to help some patients of coronavirus to recover faster, was approved for usage in the pandemic under emergency conditions by the United States regulators. This is the first medicine or treatment that that has shown it could...
Experimental Drug Remdesivir Found Effective Against Covid-19 In US Study: Reports
A biotech company has claimed that an experimental drug that it had manufactured in the wake of the Ebola virus out break has proved to be effective in treating patients with the novel coronavirus infection according to a major study by the United States government that subjected the treatment...
FDA Commissioner Says Agency Is Moving At ‘Lightning Speed’ On Remdesivir
The Commissioner of the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA), Stephen Hahn, said that the agency is moving at “lightning speed” for the reviewing of data related to the experimental Covid-19 treatment drug from Gilead Sciences Inc. – remdesivir. This was after the use of the drug...
The Sun’s Gravitational Field Trapped Interstellar Visitors?
Scientists might have chanced upon an “entire” interstellar asteroid population. An astronomers team believe that they have chanced upon a multitude of interstellar visitors, a group of asteroids orbiting Jupiter. The scientists think that these are not from our solar system instead they came from...
