March 22 (CNN) - The novel coronavirus presents an unprecedented challenge for scientists: The speed at which the virus spreads means they must accelerate their research. But this is what the world's fastest supercomputer was built for. Summit, IBM's supercomputer equipped with the "brain of AI," ran thousands of simulations to analyze which drug compounds might effectively stop the virus from infecting host ...
Nairobi/Johannesburg, March 21 (Reuters) - Angola on Saturday confirmed its first two cases of coronavirus, while Mauritius recorded its first death as the virus spreads across Africa. The continent has been slower to feel the impact than Asia or Europe, and most of its reported cases have been foreigners or people who have returned from abroad. But confirmed infections have ...
London, March 20 (Reuters) - Britain on Saturday told people who were panic-buying and hoarding food due to the coronavirus outbreak to calm down, pointing to a video on social media showing an exhausted nurse driven to tears by finding shelves bare after her shift. Shoppers have been emptying the shelves in many supermarkets over the past week, with some ...
March 21 (Geo News) - Sindh on Saturday reported 15 new coronavirus cases, taking the provincial tally to 267. According to the Sindh Health Department, the new cases were reported in pilgrims from Taftan being quarantined in Sukkur. The number of confirmed cases in Pakistan now stands at 519. A day earlier, Pakistan had recorded its third death from the ...
March 21 (The Indian Express) - The number of positive cases in India rose to 271 Saturday, from 236 a day earlier, according to the Indian Council of Medical research. With 63 cases reported on Friday itself, the government decided to change testing criteria for COVID-19 to include all pneumonia cases, regardless of travel or contact history. Earlier, testing was ...
March 21 (TheStraitsTime) - The coronavirus is now infecting people at a faster pace: It took three months for the first 100,000 cases, but only 12 days for the next 100,000 on Wednesday, said the World Health Organisation. By yesterday, the global tally had gone up by more than 50,000 to surpass 250,000 cases. If the coronavirus is allowed to ...
Singapore, March 21 (Reuters) - Singapore reported two coronavirus-related deaths on Saturday , marking the city-state’s first fatalities from the infection. The patients who died were a 75-year-old Singaporean woman and a 64-year-old Indonesian man, the health ministry said in a statement. Singapore, widely praised for its fastidious onslaught against the virus, has confirmed 385 cases of the infection and ...
Singapore, March 20 (TheStraitsTimes) - A contact-tracing smartphone app has been launched to allow the local authorities to quickly track people who have been exposed to confirmed coronavirus cases. Dubbed TraceTogether, the app is able to identify people who have been in close proximity - within 2m for at least 30 minutes - to coronavirus patients using wireless Bluetooth technology, said its ...
Moscow, March 20 (Reuters) - Russian scientists have begun testing prototypes of potential vaccines against the new coronavirus on animals in a laboratory in Siberia, Russia’s consumer health regulator said on Friday. Russia has reported 199 coronavirus cases so far, less than in many other European countries, but the figure has risen sharply in recent days. One person diagnosed with ...
Colombo, March 20 (newsin.asia) - The Ministry of Health announced that 6 more patients have tested positive for Coronavirus (COVID-19) bringing the total number of confirmed cases in the country to 65. According to the figures released by the Health Ministry this morning from the 65 patients 78% of them were male patients while 67% were over 40 years old. ...
