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Thursday, March 26, 2020
How to Overcome with stress during the Covid-19 outbreak
The better way to stay at home during 2019-nCov lockdown by spending time with family, friends also if get extra time try to brush up your skills.
Talk to Friends, Relatives - It is normal to feel sad, stressed, confused, scared or angry during a crisis.
Talking to people you trust can help. Contact your friends and family. Just call daily choosing from your phone contact list and best way start from alphabet wise first call to name start from A-alphabet and so on.
Eat Healthy Stay Healthy - If you must stay at home, maintain a healthy lifestyle including proper diet, eat veggies, salads, nuts, pulses, take proper eight-hour sleep.
Avoid Alcohol and Smoking - If you're planning to quit drinking and smoking in the past but for some unknown reason you're unable to make a decision but during the lockdown, you can avoid alcohol and smoking and spend quality time with family.
Acquire Skills and spend Hobbies - Draw on skills you have used in the past that have helped you to manage previous life’s adversities and use those skills to help you manage your emotions during
the challenging time of this outbreak.
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Talk to Friends, Relatives - It is normal to feel sad, stressed, confused, scared or angry during a crisis.
Talking to people you trust can help. Contact your friends and family. Just call daily choosing from your phone contact list and best way start from alphabet wise first call to name start from A-alphabet and so on.
Eat Healthy Stay Healthy - If you must stay at home, maintain a healthy lifestyle including proper diet, eat veggies, salads, nuts, pulses, take proper eight-hour sleep.
Avoid Alcohol and Smoking - If you're planning to quit drinking and smoking in the past but for some unknown reason you're unable to make a decision but during the lockdown, you can avoid alcohol and smoking and spend quality time with family.
Acquire Skills and spend Hobbies - Draw on skills you have used in the past that have helped you to manage previous life’s adversities and use those skills to help you manage your emotions during
the challenging time of this outbreak.
How to Overcome with stress during the Covid-19 outbreak
Talk to Friends, Relatives - It is normal to feel sad, stressed, confused, scared or angry during a crisis.
Talking to people you trust can help. Contact your friends and family.
Just call daily choosing from your phone contact list and best way start from alphabet wise first call to name start from A-alphabet and so on.
Eat Healthy Stay Healthy - If you must stay at home, maintain a healthy lifestyle including proper diet, eat veggies, salads, nuts, pulses, take proper eight-hour sleep.
Avoid Alcohol and Smoking - If you're planning to quit drinking and smoking in the past but for some unknown reason you're unable to make a decision but during lockdown due Coronavirus (Covid-19)
Talking to people you trust can help. Contact your friends and family.
Just call daily choosing from your phone contact list and best way start from alphabet wise first call to name start from A-alphabet and so on.
Eat Healthy Stay Healthy - If you must stay at home, maintain a healthy lifestyle including proper diet, eat veggies, salads, nuts, pulses, take proper eight-hour sleep.
Avoid Alcohol and Smoking - If you're planning to quit drinking and smoking in the past but for some unknown reason you're unable to make a decision but during lockdown due Coronavirus (Covid-19)
Tuesday, March 24, 2020
5 Surfaces that Coronavirus (COVID-19) Will Last On
As per the report of National Institutes of Health that on five Surfaces that Coronavirus (COVID-19) will last on for more than one hour.
1. Air (3 hours)
2. Copper (4 hours)
3. Cardboard (24 hours)
4. Stainless Steel (2-3 days)
5. Plastics (3 days)
Coronavirus Covid-19 is a fast-evolving pandemic, On 31 December 2019, the World Health Organization (WHO) office in China received a report of 29 pneumonia cases of unknown aetiology in Wuhan city in Hubei province, central China. Within 1 week it became clear that the initial cases were associated with a seafood market where live poultry and wild animals were also sold. The virus was quickly identified as a novel beta-coronavirus and the genetic sequence was shared on 12 January 2020. The infection is now officially termed COVID-19 and the virus SARS-CoV-2. News of this outbreak gave many public health officials an involuntary shudder as they recalled the parallels with the severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) outbreak that arose in China in November 2002. That outbreak was also caused by a novel coronavirus spilling over from an animal reservoir and transmitted by respiratory droplets. SARS spread to many parts of the world through international air travel, caused more than 8000 cases and 774 deaths and cost in the region US$20 billion to control.
Within less than a month COVID-19 had spread throughout China and to neighbouring countries, even to the USA and Europe. It became clear that the new virus was highly transmissible from person to person but was considerably less virulent, with less than 20% of cases being classified as severe. It has the clinical features of atypical pneumonia with fever, dry cough, fatigue, dyspnoea and myalgia and is more often severe in those with comorbidities and the elderly. Since there are no specific therapies or vaccines available, standard public health measures appropriate for a virus spread by droplets, close contact and on environmental surfaces were instituted. The Chinese authorities conducted active case finding and testing, contact tracing and quarantining of cases and contacts. The public was advised to stay at home if sick, in an effort to control the spread of the virus. On 30 January 2020 the WHO declared the outbreak a public health emergency of international concern, their highest level of severity, at a time when there were almost 10 000 confirmed cases, more than 200 deaths and it had spread to 20 countries.
The Chinese authorities had by then instituted highly stringent control measures, including stopping flights and public transport in Wuhan and other major cities, closing animal wet markets, extending the New Year holiday period in an effort to prevent mass travel, reducing movements within cities, minimizing mass gatherings, keeping schools closed, staggering office and factory working hours and restricting movement on the streets. The wearing of face masks became compulsory and, in effect, the population of Hubei province, more than 50 million people, were in quarantine. The authorities also built two new hospitals with more than 2500 beds within 2 weeks to cope with the surge in demand for medical care.
By the middle of March, less than 3 months into the epidemic, there had been more than 200 000 cases confirmed worldwide with more than 8000 deaths, vastly surpassing the SARS epidemic. The number of cases reported has been highest in China, although cases have now been reported in 159 countries and territories on six continents. Over 70 countries have instituted travel restrictions. The main initial battle to control this epidemic has been in China, where heroic public health measures have bought the rest of the world time and may have reduced the effective reproduction number to close to 1, thereby bringing the epidemic under control. However, the rest of the world needs to maintain high vigilance, as this virus is highly transmissible and can cause severe disease and death, as has been seen in countries such as South Korea, Iran and Italy. Indeed, the number of new cases is now highest in Europe. Containment through case finding and isolation and contact tracing and social distancing remain the key public health approaches to controlling the epidemic in all parts of the world.
Source: Jimmy Whitworth Professor of International Public Health, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar
1. Air (3 hours)
2. Copper (4 hours)
3. Cardboard (24 hours)
4. Stainless Steel (2-3 days)
5. Plastics (3 days)
Coronavirus Covid-19 is a fast-evolving pandemic, On 31 December 2019, the World Health Organization (WHO) office in China received a report of 29 pneumonia cases of unknown aetiology in Wuhan city in Hubei province, central China. Within 1 week it became clear that the initial cases were associated with a seafood market where live poultry and wild animals were also sold. The virus was quickly identified as a novel beta-coronavirus and the genetic sequence was shared on 12 January 2020. The infection is now officially termed COVID-19 and the virus SARS-CoV-2. News of this outbreak gave many public health officials an involuntary shudder as they recalled the parallels with the severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) outbreak that arose in China in November 2002. That outbreak was also caused by a novel coronavirus spilling over from an animal reservoir and transmitted by respiratory droplets. SARS spread to many parts of the world through international air travel, caused more than 8000 cases and 774 deaths and cost in the region US$20 billion to control.
Within less than a month COVID-19 had spread throughout China and to neighbouring countries, even to the USA and Europe. It became clear that the new virus was highly transmissible from person to person but was considerably less virulent, with less than 20% of cases being classified as severe. It has the clinical features of atypical pneumonia with fever, dry cough, fatigue, dyspnoea and myalgia and is more often severe in those with comorbidities and the elderly. Since there are no specific therapies or vaccines available, standard public health measures appropriate for a virus spread by droplets, close contact and on environmental surfaces were instituted. The Chinese authorities conducted active case finding and testing, contact tracing and quarantining of cases and contacts. The public was advised to stay at home if sick, in an effort to control the spread of the virus. On 30 January 2020 the WHO declared the outbreak a public health emergency of international concern, their highest level of severity, at a time when there were almost 10 000 confirmed cases, more than 200 deaths and it had spread to 20 countries.
The Chinese authorities had by then instituted highly stringent control measures, including stopping flights and public transport in Wuhan and other major cities, closing animal wet markets, extending the New Year holiday period in an effort to prevent mass travel, reducing movements within cities, minimizing mass gatherings, keeping schools closed, staggering office and factory working hours and restricting movement on the streets. The wearing of face masks became compulsory and, in effect, the population of Hubei province, more than 50 million people, were in quarantine. The authorities also built two new hospitals with more than 2500 beds within 2 weeks to cope with the surge in demand for medical care.
By the middle of March, less than 3 months into the epidemic, there had been more than 200 000 cases confirmed worldwide with more than 8000 deaths, vastly surpassing the SARS epidemic. The number of cases reported has been highest in China, although cases have now been reported in 159 countries and territories on six continents. Over 70 countries have instituted travel restrictions. The main initial battle to control this epidemic has been in China, where heroic public health measures have bought the rest of the world time and may have reduced the effective reproduction number to close to 1, thereby bringing the epidemic under control. However, the rest of the world needs to maintain high vigilance, as this virus is highly transmissible and can cause severe disease and death, as has been seen in countries such as South Korea, Iran and Italy. Indeed, the number of new cases is now highest in Europe. Containment through case finding and isolation and contact tracing and social distancing remain the key public health approaches to controlling the epidemic in all parts of the world.
Source: Jimmy Whitworth Professor of International Public Health, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar
Common Coronavirus Diseases (COVID-19) Myths Busted and Get Away with It
As per the WHO report, it is advisable to the common public about how coronavirus harms your body and some of the myth which is viral on the internet that can save you from COVID-19.
1. COVID-19 virus can be transmitted in areas with hot and humid climates - From the evidence so far, the COVID-19 virus can be transmitted in ALL AREAS, including areas with hot and humid weather.
2. Cold weather and snow CANNOT kill the new coronavirus.
3. Taking a hot bath does not prevent the new coronavirus disease.
4. The new coronavirus CANNOT be transmitted through mosquito bites.
5. Even hand dryers are not effective in killing the new coronavirus (COVID-19).
6. The new coronavirus CANNOT be transmitted through mosquito bites.
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1. COVID-19 virus can be transmitted in areas with hot and humid climates - From the evidence so far, the COVID-19 virus can be transmitted in ALL AREAS, including areas with hot and humid weather.
2. Cold weather and snow CANNOT kill the new coronavirus.
3. Taking a hot bath does not prevent the new coronavirus disease.
4. The new coronavirus CANNOT be transmitted through mosquito bites.
5. Even hand dryers are not effective in killing the new coronavirus (COVID-19).
6. The new coronavirus CANNOT be transmitted through mosquito bites.
Can spraying alcohol or chlorine all over your body kill the new coronavirus?
The myth of spraying alcohol or chlorine all over your body kill the new coronavirus?
As per WHO, No. Spraying alcohol or chlorine all over your body will not kill viruses that have already entered your body. Spraying such substances can be harmful to clothes or mucous membranes (i.e. eyes, mouth). Be aware that both alcohol and chlorine can be useful to disinfect surfaces, but they need to be used under appropriate recommendations.
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What's the Difference between Hand Washing and using a Hand Sanitizer?
What's the Difference between Hand Washing and using a Hand Sanitizer?
These two are not the same, and priority should be placed on handwashing overusing a hand sanitizer. Handwashing with soap and water should be prioritized over the use of hand sanitizer.
It can be really helpful knowing when to wash your hands or rubbing a hand sanitizer. This can help you respond effectively to the widespread coronavirus and other illnesses such as the seasonal flu
and the common cold.
The CDC recommends you only turn to a hand sanitizer when soap and water aren't around.
However, how effective can you wash your hands?
And in doing so,
Finally, don't forget to take your hand sanitizer in a little bottle along with you should there be a need to use it? Encourage good hygiene in your home. Keep everywhere clean, and stay and safe.
These two are not the same, and priority should be placed on handwashing overusing a hand sanitizer. Handwashing with soap and water should be prioritized over the use of hand sanitizer.
It can be really helpful knowing when to wash your hands or rubbing a hand sanitizer. This can help you respond effectively to the widespread coronavirus and other illnesses such as the seasonal flu
and the common cold.
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The CDC recommends you only turn to a hand sanitizer when soap and water aren't around.
However, how effective can you wash your hands?
- do it after coming out of the bathroom.
- do it after sneezing, coughing or blowing your nose.
- do it before eating.
- do it after rubbing your hands on surfaces that might be contaminated.
And in doing so,
- use clean and running, warm, or cold water.
- first of all, wet your hand with the water, turn it off, rub soap for over 20 minutes and then wash your hands.
- don't forget to scrub the back and between fingers.
- cut your nails or make sure you can wash underneath it very well.
- rinse your hands well, air dry, or use a tissue or clean towel.
Finally, don't forget to take your hand sanitizer in a little bottle along with you should there be a need to use it? Encourage good hygiene in your home. Keep everywhere clean, and stay and safe.
How to Produce a Hand Sanitizer?
Step by step direction to produce a Hand Sanitizer:
1. Turn all the required ingredients into a clean bowl. A bowl with a pouring spout is most recommended.
2. Mix with a turning stick to blend everything together.
3. Turn the mixture into an airtight bottle or an old sanitizer container, but remember to remove the original label from the container. You can then label it "My home-made hand sanitizer" or ignore labeling it.
A similar formula was also shared by Jagdish Khubchandani, Ph.D of Ball State University.
Find his composition below.
1. Ethanol or isopropyl alcohol (two parts) (91% to 99% alcohol).
2. Aloe vera gel (one part).
3. Clove / eucalyptus / peppermint
essential oil.
1. Turn all the required ingredients into a clean bowl. A bowl with a pouring spout is most recommended.
2. Mix with a turning stick to blend everything together.
3. Turn the mixture into an airtight bottle or an old sanitizer container, but remember to remove the original label from the container. You can then label it "My home-made hand sanitizer" or ignore labeling it.
A similar formula was also shared by Jagdish Khubchandani, Ph.D of Ball State University.
Find his composition below.
1. Ethanol or isopropyl alcohol (two parts) (91% to 99% alcohol).
2. Aloe vera gel (one part).
3. Clove / eucalyptus / peppermint
essential oil.
Ingredients to Prepare a Hand Sanitizer
Essential Ingredients to Prepare a Hand Sanitizer
Making a hand sanitizer at home does not require much, but just a few ingredients that can be sourced locally or online (e.g., Amazon).
The following ingredients can be used to produce a perfect hand sanitizer that can disinfect surfaces and kill most germs.
1. Alcohol (Isopropyl) (up to 99% alcohol volume).
2. Aloe vera gel.
3. Tea tree/lavender essential oil.
4. Lemon.
The minimum amount of alcohol needed to kill most germs is 60%, and this can only be achieved by mixing a 2:1 alcohol to Aloe vera ratio. This ratio would produce an effective, germ-killing sanitizer.
This is a recommendation coming from the Center for Disease Control (CDC). This material follows a standard recommendation by health practitioners on how to go about producing an effective hand sanitizer.
Making a hand sanitizer at home does not require much, but just a few ingredients that can be sourced locally or online (e.g., Amazon).
The following ingredients can be used to produce a perfect hand sanitizer that can disinfect surfaces and kill most germs.
1. Alcohol (Isopropyl) (up to 99% alcohol volume).
2. Aloe vera gel.
3. Tea tree/lavender essential oil.
4. Lemon.
The minimum amount of alcohol needed to kill most germs is 60%, and this can only be achieved by mixing a 2:1 alcohol to Aloe vera ratio. This ratio would produce an effective, germ-killing sanitizer.
This is a recommendation coming from the Center for Disease Control (CDC). This material follows a standard recommendation by health practitioners on how to go about producing an effective hand sanitizer.
Monday, March 23, 2020
Coronavirus in India: Total lockdown in 30 states/UTs; curfew pass needed to enter Delhi
As most of India went into shutdown in a mega effort to stop the spread of Covid-19 — complete lockdowns were announced in 30 states/ UTs and a total of 548 districts
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India to spend $1.3 billion to boost pharmaceutical production
The program includes spending on infrastructure for drug manufacturing centers, and financial incentives of up to 20% of incremental sales value over the next eight years, according to a government statement.
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DCGI to fast-track approval for Covid-19 drug, vaccine
The DCGI has offered seven measures for speeding up the process, from giving fast-track approval for repurposed drug to waiving animal study and offering flexible pathways which earlier would have taken months. It said applications from companies will be given “high priority” and that it will assist the companies in speeding up their research.
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