Day: September 29, 2020

Caught in worries of today, corona and health distant thoughts for pregnant daily-wagers

2:37 pm September 29, 2020

New Delhi: Carrying bricks and cement by day and jerry cans of water when their shifts get over, the workday continues without end for thousands of pregnant labourers forced to live life on the precipice with little time to spare on thoughts of what the future holds – for themselves or their unborn child. Uncertainty […]

AP Analysis: Dark days ahead for Lebanon as crisis bites

2:31 pm September 29, 2020

Beirut: The past year has been nothing short of an earthquake for Lebanon, hit by an economic meltdown, mass protests, financial collapse, a virus outbreak and a cataclysmic explosion that virtually wiped out the country’s main port. Yet Lebanese fear even darker days are ahead. The country’s foreign reserves are drying up, the local currency is […]

Phone giant NTT plans to take over, delist Docomo

2:27 pm September 29, 2020

Mito: Shares in Japanese telecoms giant Nippon Telegraph & Telephone, or NTT, fell Tuesday on news it is preparing for a takeover of its mobile phone carrier NTT DoCoMo. The Nihon Keizai Shimbun and other media reported that DoCoMo’s board would meet later in the day to vote on the plan. The reports said NTT plans to […]

Saliva tests could quickly detect asymptomatic COVID-19 cases, study says

1:45 pm September 29, 2020

Tokyo: Testing self-collected saliva samples could offer an easy, quick and effective mass testing approach for detecting asymptomatic COVID-19 cases, according to a study. The research, published in the journal Clinical Infectious Diseases, tested and compared the nasopharyngeal swabs and saliva samples of almost 2,000 people in Japan who did not have COVID-19 symptoms. “Rapid detection of asymptomatic […]

Strong activation of anti-bacterial cells of immune system linked to severe COVID-19: Study

1:31 pm September 29, 2020

London: A type of the immune system’s T cells known to fight against bacterial infections is strongly activated in people with moderate to severe COVID-19, according to a study which provides a better understanding of how the body responds to the novel coronavirus infection. Researchers, including those from the Karolinska Institutet in Sweden, noted that […]