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COVID-19 in 2025  

The unprecedented COVID-19 pandemic spanning over three years claimed millions of lives worldwide and caused immense misery to the humanity. Rapid developments of vaccines...

CoViNet: A New Network of Global Laboratories for Coronaviruses 

A new global network of laboratories for coronaviruses, CoViNet, has been launched by WHO. The aim behind this initiative is to bring together surveillance...

COVID-19: Severe lung infection affects heart through “cardiac macrophage shift” 

It is known that COVID-19 increases the risk of heart attack, stroke, and Long COVID but what was not known is whether the damage...

A Novel Approach to ‘Repurpose’ Existing Drugs For COVID-19

A combination of biological and computational approach to study protein-protein interactions (PPIs) between the viral and the host proteins in order to identify and...

European COVID-19 Data Platform: EC Launched Data Sharing Platform for Researchers

The European Commission has launched www.Covid19DataPortal.org where the researchers can store and rapidly share datasets. The rapid sharing of relevant data would accelerate research and discovery. With...

Heinsberg Study: Infection Fatality Rate (IFR) for COVID-19 Determined for the First Time

The infection fatality rate (IFR) is more reliable indicator of the extent of the infection. In this study, the researchers found the actual infection...

Development of Herd Immunity against COVID-19: When Do We Know That an Adequate Level is Reached to Lift Lockdown?

Social interaction and vaccination both contribute to development of herd immunity however development of herd immunity as a result of social interaction is directly...

ISARIC Study Indicates How Social Distancing Could Be Fine-tuned

The recently completed UK-wide, ISARIC Study on analysis of 16749 patients with severe COVID-19 disease across 166 hospitals indicated that those with co-morbidity were...

How Compensating Innovators Could Help Lift Lockdown due to COVID-19

For quicker lifting of lockdown, the innovators or entrepreneurs holding IP rights over novel technologies with potential to improve diagnostics and therapeutics for COVID-19,...

Convalescent Plasma Therapy: An Immediate Short-Term Treatment for COVID-19

Convalescent plasma therapy holds key for the immediate treatment of severely sick COVID-19 patients. This article discusses effectiveness of this therapy and its present...

Vaccines for COVID-19: Race Against Time

Development of vaccine for COVID-19 is a global priority. In this article, the author has reviewed and evaluated research and development and the present...

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