Israeli researchers have found that low levels of Vitamin D in the blood are associated with an increased risk of Covid-19 infection. Vitamin D is a hormone, produced in the skin during exposure to sunlight, and helps regulate the amount of calcium and phosphate in the body, which are needed to ...

A recent study found that the novel coronavirus appears to have circulated unnoticed in bats for decades. Horseshoe bats are the most plausible origin of the SARS-CoV-2 pathogen, researchers led by Maciej Boni of Pensylvania State University's Center for Infectious Disease Dynamics. Daily ...

Germany's Biotechnology Company BioNTech and China's Shanghai Fosun Pharmaceutical have announced the start of another COVID-19 vaccine trial in China. BioNTech and Fosun Pharma are jointly developing the COVID-19 vaccine candidate in China. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points The ...

Singapore has sought out U.S. Covid-19 vaccine developer Arcturus Therapeutics Holdings Inc. and is funding its research in order to secure the first doses of any successful final product, in a reflection of the growing urgency in the race for immunization. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 ...

A Russian state virology institute has started human trials of the country's second potential COVID-19 vaccine, injecting the first of five volunteers with a dose on July 27. The next volunteer in the trial by the Vector virology institute in Siberia would receive an injection on July 30. Daily ...

Defence Institute of Advanced Technology, (DIAT), Pune has developed a Medical Bed Isolation System named Aashray to combat COVID-19 by stopping/ minimizing the spread of virus/ infection released by the patient. This is a low cost, reusable solution to maintain proper isolation of COVID-19 ...

A government supported IT company in Bengaluru has developed an application named Lyfas which is capable of capturing an individual’s vital health statistics through mobile phone to determine one’s propensity to Covid 19 infection and can potentially play a big role in early detection of disease ...

Prime Minister Modi has launched high throughput COVID-19 testing facilities on 27th July via video conferencing. These facilities will ramp up testing capacity in the country and help in strengthening early detection and treatment, thus assisting in controlling the spread of the pandemic. ...

The spike protein of the COVID-19-causing SARS-CoV-2 has been found to change its form once it attaches itself to the human cell. Researchers have found that once the coronavirus binds itself to the human cell with the help of these spike proteins, the proteins fold in on themselves to take a ...

DBT-BIRAC has facilitated the establishment of ‘first-of-its-kind’ mRNA-based vaccine manufacturing platform in India. DBT has provided seed funding for the development of Gennova’s novel self-amplifying mRNA-based vaccine candidate for COVID19. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points ...