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Italy: Bar curfew ordered and Rome demand gyms and pools shut as Covid cases increase

  Bar curfew ordered and Rome demand gyms and pools shut as Covid cases increase in Italy. Italy has ordered bars and restaurants to close by 6pm and for public gyms, cinemas, and swimming pools to shut in a desperate bid to try to halt s rapid resurgence in the coronavirus that has pushed daily infection rates to new records. Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte said the measures were aimed at protecting both public health and the economy and should bring the rising curve of the epidemic under control in the next few weeks to allow a ''serene'' Christmas. ''we think we will suffer a bit this month but by gritting our teeth with these restrictions, we'll be able to breathe again in December,'' he told a news conference, promising that sectors hit by the measures would be compensated. It comes after Spain also declared a state of emergency until May as the nation was hit by a huge coronavirus spike.  Italy, once the European country hardest hit by the pandem...

CORONAVIRUS VACCINE: VOLUNTEER IN OXFORD UNIVERSITY COVID-19 VACCINE TRIAL DIES

 Brazil's health authority has confirmed a volunteer has died because of participating in the clinical trials of the coronavirus vaccine development by AstraZeneca and oxford university. The country's health minister, Anvisa confirmed the person died following the trial of the drug. The health authority said the investigation will be held on the matter. Despite the death of the person, the health authority confirmed trials will continue.  "The drug is currently undergoing phase three clinical trials in the country. Brazil has a plan in place to purchase the drug and produce it as its biomedical research center if it clears the final phase of trials." Despite the death of the volunteer, oxford university has stated there are no concerns surrounding the safety of the trials. The vaccine is seen as one of the leading drugs, with the UK government signing a deal for 100millin doses. Both Indian and south Africa have resumed clinical trials of the potential vaccine. AstraZ...

Coronavirus Vaccine

The world health organization announced on Friday that the "world's largest randomized control trial on COVID-19 therapeutics'' found"conclusive evidence" that remdesivir and three other drugs had "little or no effect'' in reducing coronavirus deaths. A Coronavirus Vaccine or covid vaccine  is the several different vaccines intended to provide acquired immunity against coronavirus disease 2019 (covid-19). previously work to develop a vaccine against the coronavirus diseases SARS and MERS established knowledge about the structure and function of coronaviruses-which accelerated development during early 2020 of varied technology platforms for the  Coronavirus Vaccine or covid vaccine . As of October 2020, there were 321 vaccine candidates in development, a 2.5 fold increase since April.how ever, no candidate has completed clinical trials to prove its safety and efficacy. In October, some 42 vaccine candidates were in clinical research: namely 33 i...

The Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on Economy in India

India's growth in the fourth quarter of the fiscal year 2020 went down to 3.1% according to the ministry of Statistics. The Chief Economic Adviser to the Government of India said that this drop is mainly due to the coronavirus pandemic effect on the Indian economy. The World Bank and rating agencies had initially revised India's growth for FY2021 with the lowest figures India has seen in three decades since India's economic liberalization in the 1990s. However, after the announcement of the economic package in mid-May, India's GDP estimates were downgraded even more to negative figures, signaling a deep recession. The ratings of over 30 countries have been downgraded during this period.  On26 May, CRISIL announced that this will perhaps be India's worst recession since independence. State Bank of India research estimates a contraction of over 40% in the GDP in Q1 the contraction will not be uniform, rather it will differ according to various parameters such as state...