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Topic: The Conversation

How Vietnam has reported zero coronavirus deaths

The reason why Vietnam has managed to keep patients from death’s door is a three-pronged government strategy. And not all of the policies uphold civil liberty.

US scientists guarding precious living collections during Covid lockdown

Hundreds of scientists are fighting against pandemic to protect everything from crickets, to tissue cultures, mice, powdery mildews, zebrafish and even rust fungi.

Total eradication of novel coronavirus almost impossible. But this is what vaccine can do

Scientists say about 50-70% of the population needs to be resistant for the virus to stop spreading and slowly die out.

Boris Johnson won’t have to pay hospital bills. And it’s not because he is PM

Johnson must thank former PM Clement Attlee and his three main goals for the UK.

The novel coronavirus circulated for 40 years before jumping species

The first thing to know is that it is rare for viruses to jump between species. In order for a virus to successfully jump, it must be able to do several things.

Coronavirus has busted myth that nationalist Right cares about ‘the people’

Take, for instance, how Brazil, Britain, the US and India are fighting the coronavirus crisis.

Hezbollah to Taliban to Brazil’s gangs: Terrorists, militants and criminals join Covid fight

A weak pandemic response from a government creates an opportunity for violent groups to earn legitimacy in eyes of the public.

Cuba has enough doctors, free healthcare to fight Covid-19. But there’s one problem

Cuba has several advantages, including free healthcare, world’s highest ratio of doctors to population, and positive health indicators.

African cities are struggling with food supply chain in coronavirus lockdowns

Before the Covid-crisis, food was already expensive in African cities. Now with the pandemic, supply chains are struggling to function.

Covid to plague — Pandemics have always been the perfect petri dish for conspiracy theories

When 1918 flu hit the Americas, it was blamed on German submarines. During the 1630 Milan plague in Milan, folk superstitions led to torture and execution of two citizens.

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Pakistan is bluffing. There’s no proof for $6 trillion mineral wealth claim

The minerals that Pakistan purports to offer to the US are either in quantities too small to matter, of a type that the US does not need, or would be much more easily sourced from other partners.

No more text-heavy ads, wider scope of services—ICAI’s ethics code overhaul to promote Indian CA firms

Open to public feedback until 26 November, the revised guidelines, among other changes, give CA firms more flexibility to advertise & promote their services.

‘Let them see’: Putin says new nuclear-powered missiles in the making, in message to Washington

At a ceremony felicitating Russian military engineers, Putin highlights Moscow’s 'parity' in defence technologies for the next century.

Bihar is where politics moves, and everything else stands still

Bihar is blessed with a land more fertile for revolutions than any in India. Why has it fallen so far behind then? Constant obsession with politics is at the root of its destruction.