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Big drop in Covid cases forecast for mid-year
Apinya Wipatayotin, Published on 04/02/2022
» The Department of Disease Control forecasts that Covid-19 infections will significantly decline later this year, to only 200 cases per day in August.
Debunking the endgame theory
Life, Thana Boonlert, Published on 18/01/2022
» Like all viruses, SARS-CoV-2 adapts for survival. First identified in South Africa in November, the new variant of concern, Omicron, has now swept across the world. It carries a large number of mutations, including those on the spike protein, which are thought to increase transmissibility. However, studies have found that it causes milder infection than previous variants.
IVL gathering strength
News, Published on 14/01/2022
» While 2021 proved to be a tough year for the global economy with strong headwinds, such challenges have failed to throw chemical giant Indorama Ventures Plc (IVL) off course, thanks to the leadership of its founder and CEO Aloke Lohia.
Researchers studying cause, treatment for long Covid-19
Life, Published on 11/01/2022
» DEAR DOCTORS: When are treatments for long Covid going to be available? I had Covid-19 in the very beginning, when there were no tests for it yet, and I've never really recovered. Is long Covid still happening to people who are getting sick now?
Where To Next?
Asia focus, Pattama Kuentak, Published on 10/01/2022
» The world has entered its third year of living with a global pandemic. We have witnessed almost 300 million Covid-19 cases with 5.47 million lives lost, yet the toll might have been much worse but for an almost superhuman global effort to develop effective vaccines in record time.
Isolation and innovation: 2 years of the Covid pandemic
AFP, Published on 06/01/2022
» PARIS: Two years ago, a previously unknown virus plunged humanity into an unprecedented global crisis that has transformed our daily lives -- and significantly expanded scientific knowledge.
T cells come to the rescue as studies show they fight Omicron
Bloomberg News, Published on 30/12/2021
» An unsung arm of the immune system appears to protect against severe disease with the omicron variant even when antibodies wane, helping to explain why a record wave of infections hasn’t engulfed hospitals so far.
RT-PCR tests on errant Israeli negative, but further tests underway
Published on 23/12/2021
» SURAT THANI: RT-PCR tests on an Israeli tourist who left his quarantine hotel in Bangkok and went to Koh Samui have returned negative for Covid-19, but samples have been sent for further testing in a laboratory.
How coronavirus spreads in a tiny drop of water
Published on 07/12/2021
» NEW YORK: To better understand the coronavirus’s journey from one person to another, a team of 50 scientists has for the first time created an atomic simulation of the coronavirus nestled in a tiny airborne drop of water.
Covid: Digital peasants and the ignorant rich
Oped, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 04/12/2021
» The new Omicron variant of the Covid-19 virus was discovered last week by scientists in South Africa and Botswana, the only countries in southern Africa that have the skills and resources to detect a new variant.