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Updated Mar 16, 2021 | 12:16 IST Maharashtra is at the beginning of second wave of Covid-19 pandemic. There is very limited active effort to track, test, isolate cases and quarantine contacts," the Central team of Union Health Ministry said. Representational Image  Key Highlights The Central team noted that the absence of rigorous tracing, testing and containment is leading to sustained community transmission The team noted that measures such as lockdown and night curfew have very limited impact on suppressing the transmission Mumbai: Taking a strong exception of t...

UAE Covid-19: Emirati frontline worker describes early days of pandemic Emirati volunteer Amal Al Busaeedi Amal Al Busaeedi worked at the Ghantout quarantine facility. An Emirati woman in Abu Dhabi, who was among the first persons to volunteer to work at a quarantine facility when Covid-19 had just broken out, says she felt it was the perfect moment to give back to her nation. Amal Al Busaeedi said when the Covid-19 pandemic began in the UAE, there was no question of “what I would do”. “This was my moment to step up and give back to the nation. My military training, which I completed in...

I completed a Bachelors in Veterinary Biology (BSc) in 2009, followed by a Bachelors in Veterinary Science (BVSc) in 2012, at the University of Pretoria, in South Africa. I was then given the opportunity to pursue a PhD on the impacts of air pollution in wild birds at the University of Calgary, in Alberta, Canada, which I completed at the end of 2017. Since then I have been working as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, in Durban, South Africa, with the South African Co-Chair and Technical Support Unit of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Working G...