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Flu can be transmitted through breathing, against all notions of contamination by exposure to droplets from coughs and sneezes. (Photo: Pixabay)

The flu may be spread just by breathing

The study is published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

21 Jan 2018 4:09 PM IST

The covidvisualizer.com website lets you click on countries on a rotating globe, to display figures listed below that nations flag.

Follow the spread of the coronavirus by country, state and district on...

They feature interactive maps with figures corresponding to locations updated often twice daily, in real time, and even...

26 March 2020 10:51 PM IST

If you search for coronavirus on Google, this appears on the right side of the search results page.

Google's new website does not screen for coronavirus as Trump said, it...

The website points to authoritative resources for coronavirus information and will soon be available in more languages...

22 March 2020 2:02 PM IST

Real-time updates from national health authorities and global organisations such as the World Health Organisation, as well as vettehelpful articles, videos and posts about social distancing and preventing the spread of COVID-19

Facebook rolling out updated News Feed with fact-checked coronavirus...

The feature will be available today in Italy, France, Germany, Spain, UK and US, and will be expanded to more countries...

19 March 2020 5:13 PM IST

Heres a specimen of a fax machine, if youve never seen one. It functions like a copier machine that sends a photocopy of your paper document to someone on the other line.

Can you believe America still uses fax machines?

Public health workers are collecting vital pandemic data over faxes and phone calls in a country that invented the...

14 May 2020 7:11 PM IST

Andreas Raounas, 84, the first patient in Island receives from a nurse the vaccine of Pfizer BioNtech against the COVID-19, at a care home in Nicosia, Cyprus. (Photo: AP/File)

US CDC classifies Delta variant as 'variant of concern'

Previously, the CDC had considered the Delta variant to be a variant of interest

17 Jun 2021 10:44 AM IST

U.S. health authorities will consider this latest real-world data as they decide if at least some Americans need a booster, and how soon after their last dose. (AP)

Unvaccinated 11 times more likely to die of COVID: US Studies

CDC released two other studies that signalled hints of waning protection for older adults

11 Sept 2021 11:47 AM IST

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Trump set to sign executive order on keeping US meat plants open

Trump had said earlier that the details of an order were being drawn up for signing.

29 April 2020 8:44 AM 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 | Wikimedia Common - mcfarlandmo)

An infected person's sneeze could spread coronavirus up to 8 metres:...

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

1 April 2020 3:24 PM IST