An Indian expat student in Dubai has created a robot that dispenses sanitisers detecting a hand from a range of 30 cm. Washing hands from a robotic hand sanitiser can be super fun. Not only does this discovery take your mind off from the COVID-19 pandemic panic, but it intrigues you to dig deeper.
First case confirmed in India
The first case of Coronavirus has also been confirmed in India. A student returned to Kerala from Wuhan found infected with the Coronavirus. According to the statement released by the health ministry on January 30, 2020, the first positive case of Novel Coronavirus has been confirmed in Kerala. Earlier, Tibet has reported the first case of Coronavirus on January 29. Now, the Kerala government has announced that they have introduced special isolated wards for Novel Coronavirus treatment. The government has also issued an advisory. What is Coronavirus? Novel Coronavirus (COV) belongs to a family of viruses whose infection can cause problems ranging from cough to breathlessness. This virus has never been seen before. The virus infection started in December 2019 in Wuhan, China. According to WHO, fever, cough, shortness of breath is its common symptoms. There is no vaccine has been made to stop the virus so far.
Wuhan coronavirus may have been transmitted to people from snakes
A new coronavirusoriginating in Wuhan, China, that has claimed 17 lives may have been transmitted to people from snakes, according to a genetic analysis. The snakes may have caught the virus from bats in the food market in which both animals were sold. The source of the infection is suspected to be a food market in Wuhan that was visited by several of those first infected with the virus. The market is known to sell live wild and farmed animals, including marmots, birds, rabbits, bats and snakes. To find out if the virus might have come from one of these animals, Wei Ji and colleagues at Peking University in China compared the genomes of five samples of the new virus with 217 similar viruses collected from a range of species. The World Health Organization held an emergency committee on the new virus, which is in the same family as SARS and MERS.
