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Russia approves levilimab for treating severe Covid-19 patients, says it reduces death risk

From research on survival of coronavirus on various surfaces to ways of safely inactivating virus for lab work, ThePrint brings you the latest on Covid-19.

Researchers see weekly fluctuation in Covid infection & death rates, but can’t explain reason

Different scientists have found that geographical conditions seem to have little influence over the coronavirus infections and death rates oscillating weekly.

What we saw when we set up cameras for one of the most thorough surveys of African rainforest

Five field teams walked a forest the size of Wales to deploy 160 camera traps in 743 places. This unprecedented effort produced more than 16,000 video clips.

Surgisphere, the Indian-American founded tiny data firm at the centre of HCQ-Lancet storm

Sapan Desai, a 41-year-old surgeon, is the founder of the analytics company that prompted the retraction of two scientific articles, including one that spurred WHO to pause its drug trial.

Stanford University develops gene-editing tool that can destroy Covid-19 inside human cells

From an AI app that can help predict disease severity in patients to how fear of the pandemic is keeping heart patients away from hospitals, ThePrint brings you the latest on Covid-19.

Lancet withdraws controversial study linking HCQ to higher Covid death risk over data issues

Three of the four authors of the study apologised to The Lancet's editors and readership for any embarrassment or inconvenience their published findings may have caused.

IMD predicts normal monsoon as it hits Kerala, says just 5% chance of deficient rainfall

IMD predicts the Northeast will once again receive less-than-average rainfall, but north-western, central & southern parts of India will have a normal monsoon.

ISRO congratulates NASA and SpaceX for their manned mission, calls it ‘historic’

SpaceX's Dragon spacecraft carried two NASA astronauts into orbit Sunday from the Kennedy Space Center, marking the dawn of a new age in commercial space travel.

Why researchers are questioning Lancet study that linked HCQ to higher Covid death risk

More than a hundred scientists have raised questions about the dataset used in the study published by The Lancet, which led to WHO halting all trials of HCQ.

How llamas ‘Jeremy’ and ‘Fifi’ are helping us in fight against coronavirus

At the University of Reading, our aim is to generate llama nanobodies that bind to proteins in the SARS-CoV-2 virus.

On Camera

I met Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah in 2005. He told me he was an admirer of MK Gandhi

Shuttle diplomacy at a high level is indicated, along the lines of the famous Kissingerian shuttles following the 1973 Arab-Israeli war.

#ByeByeAP to #LuluBackInAP: Naidu’s moves to make Andhra ‘business friendly’ & woo back investors

The Jagan Reddy govt has been accused of scuppering various investment deals. Under Naidu, the govt, is trying to make AP a top investment destination, officials and industrialists say.

IAF chief AP Singh red-flags Tejas delay, says China ahead in technology & production capacity

Air force chief says HAL needs to churn out 24 aircraft per year. It is important for IAF to have indigenous weapons systems to deal with any security challenges, he says.

Islam doesn’t kill democracy. The army-Islam combo does

How come Indonesia, Malaysia, Turkey and Sri Lanka remain constitutional, democratic and stable despite Islam and Buddhism respectively, but Pakistan, Bangladesh and Myanmar don’t?