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Police have set up some 300 checkpoints across the country to enforce the national lockdown, which came into effect at 5 p.m. this evening.
The checkpoints, placed mainly at the entrance and exits of cities and towns, will be checking cars from 7 p.m. to midnight, Channel 12 news reports.
The channel says, however, that police have been instructed to “implement light enforcement” of certain aspects of the lockdown, with a focus on preventing gatherings and New Year parties. I m proud to work at The Times of Israel
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Fauci, Kerala minister Shailaja named for Mother Teresa Awards
Thu, Dec 24 2020 08:19:43 PM
Mumbai, Dec 24 (IANS): US epidemiologist Dr Anthony Fauci, Kerala Health Minister K.K. Shailaja, DGP Sanjay Pandey and other prominent global personalities have been named as recipients of the Mother Teresa Memorial Awards for 2020.
The awards, instituted since 2005 and the only one recognised by the Missionaries of Charity, Kolkata, have been given to a select few globally renowned personalities for their incredible contributions during the Covid-19 pandemic this year, with the theme Celebrating Compassion in Times of Covid , said Harmony Foundation Chairman Abraham Mathai.
Dr Fauci, 80, Director of the US National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), and his task force were the first to recognise the seriousness of the coronavirus pandemic and introduced measures like facemasks, quarantine and social distancing, besides helping the research for the vaccine.
Learning to beat a virus [Hindustan Times, New Delhi]
Dec. 24 On January 11, 2020, authorities in China announced the first death due to a new coronavirus. At the time, the virus had only infected 59 people, spreading out, it was suspected, from a seafood market in the city of Wuhan. The same day, Chinese researchers made public the genetic sequence of the virus, then called the novel coronavirus nCov-2019. Running into roughly 30,000 characters, this code would allow scientists to design within three days one of the leading vaccine candidates against the infection.
In some ways then, January 11 the day the world heard of the death of Mr Zhang from Wuhan (the man is identified only by his last name) also marked the arrival of a small but significant breakthrough that would ultimately lead to the beginning of the end of the pandemic. Within two months, a 76-year-old man from Karnataka with multiple co-morbidities became the first Indian to die of the virus, and five days later,
Anthony Fauci, the director of the US National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and a member of the White House coronavirus task force, it’s certainly possible the new strain of the lethal COVID-19, virus originally discovered in the United Kingdom, is already present in the US.,
“When you have this amount of spread within a place like the UK, you really need to assume that it’s here already. It certainly is not the dominant strain, but I would certainly not be surprised at all if it is already here,” Fauci told ABC’s “Good Morning America”
In a statement Tuesday, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) also suggested that the new COVID-19 strain could be circulating in the US.
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