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Monday 19 October 2020
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Books – Sayed Metwally
After the emerging corona virus has become a threat threatening the whole world about 10 months ago its appearance, all of us are looking forward to knowing what happens every minute, in light of the tremendous development that Covid-19 has brought in our lives.
Within this framework, “Masrawy” provides a daily service that includes displaying everything you want to know about the latest developments in the emerging corona virus, from the emergence of new symptoms or the occurrence of a different mutation, as well as the development of vaccines and drugs, in brief.
The virus lives on the skin for 9 hours
Japanese researchers discovered that the Corona virus remains active on human skin for nine hours, in a discovery they said showed the need to wash hands frequently to combat the emerging corona virus epidemic.
The study, which was published this month in the journal Clinical Infectious Diseases, said that the pathogen that causes influenza lives on human skin for about 1.8 hours, which means that the Corona virus lives on the skin 5 times longer than influenza, according to the “medicalxpress” website.
When do antibodies to “Covid-19” disappear in the blood of patients
Experts from Canada studied the blood of recovered Coronavirus patients, and found that the range of immune defenses decreases 6-10 weeks after the first symptoms appear.
So far, plasma transfusion has not been proven as a treatment in randomized trials, but small studies have indicated that it may reduce disease severity, according to Russia Today.
The researchers warned that if the so-called “convalescent plasma” is proven beneficial, this means that there is only a short opportunity to donate it, and donors must wait two weeks after the symptoms subside before donating blood – to make sure the viral particles disappear – and symptoms usually persist before Two weeks of that, and given this, the time frame for donating plasma could be shorter than just two weeks.
Common medicines for treating “Covid-19” have disappointed
The World Health Organization announced that the use of four common drugs in the treatment of 11,000 people with “Covid-19” disease from 30 countries showed their ineffectiveness.
According to medrXiv.org, these drugs are: remdesivir, hydroxychloroquine, lopinavir, and interferon-β-1a. The testing of these drugs took place within the framework of the “Solidarity” project launched by the World Health Organization to combat the “Covid-19” pandemic. Thanks to this project, doctors in different hospitals in dozens of countries coordinate their work and test specific ways to treat the disease.
China reveals the source of the “Covid-19” outbreak in Qingdao
The Center for Disease Control and Prevention in China, during its periodic inspections, discovered samples of live coronavirus, containing packages containing imported frozen cod.
Experts discovered these live viruses during the ongoing investigations into the causes of the “Covid-19” outbreak in Qingdao, Shandong Province, according to the Russian news agency TASS, according to Russia today.
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