The best practices for controlling an infectious disease like COVID-19 aren’t easy to follow—keeping six feet apart from others, wearing face masks in public, and, if you’re a health care worker, wearing shields to protect your eyes as well. But in a study published Monday in The Lancet, researchers provide ... Read More »
The Ministry of Health said on Tuesday that 9 new Coronavirus cases were registered in Lebanon. The ministry added that only 2 infections out of the 9 new cases were locally transmitted and the rest cases were recorded among the Lebanese returnees. LBCI Read More »
Analysis of more than 1,300 patients in French hospitals reveals age and BMI are among key factors A new study of Covid-19 patients shows that of those with diabetes, 10 per cent die within seven days of hospital admission, and one in five require intubation and the use of ... Read More »
The project, called Sodar, can be accessed by anyone with an Android smartphone and the Google Chrome browser Google has a new, experimental augmented reality project called “Sodar”, which creates a virtual six-feet or two-metre radius ring around you that’s visible on your phone. Augmented reality is when virtual ... Read More »
Dozens of journalists have been sacked after Microsoft decided to replace them with artificial intelligence software. Staff who maintain the news homepages on Microsoft’s MSN website and its Edge browser – used by millions of Britons every day – have been told that they will be no longer be required ... Read More »
SpaceX, the private rocket company of billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk, launched two Americans into orbit from Florida on Saturday in a landmark mission marking the first spaceflight of NASA astronauts from U.S. soil in nine years. A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifted off from the Kennedy Space Center at 3:22 ... Read More »
The Public Health Ministry indicated Sunday that 29 new coronavirus cases have been registered within the past 24 hours, thus bringing the cumulative number to-date to 1,220 infected cases. It added that one case of death was also registered during the last 24 hours. NNA Read More »
In its daily report on the latest developments of the novel Coronavirus, the Rafic Hariri University Hospital announced on Saturday that the number of laboratory tests conducted in the last 24 hours has reached 315 tests. It also indicated that the total number of laboratory-confirmed cases infected with the virus ... Read More »
A Chinese-made coronavirus vaccine could be ready for market as early as the end of this year, China’s State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission (SASAC) said in a social media post. In trials, more than 2,000 people have received vaccines developed by the Wuhan Institute of Biological Products and the ... Read More »
The Ministry of Health announced on Saturday that 19 Coronavirus new cases were registered in Lebanon, bringing the total number of cases to 1191. The ministry said that out of the 19 cases, 16 of them were recorded among the residents and 3 among the returnees. LBCI Read More »
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