Study examines how Hong Kong managed first wave of COVID-19 without resorting to complete lockdown
Reading Time: 3 minutesSTUDY suggests testing and contact tracing and population behavioural changes–measures which have far less disruptive social and economic impact than total lockdown–can meaningfully control Covid-19 Hong Kong appears to have averted a major Covid-19 outbreak up to March 31, 2020, by adopting far less drastic control measures than most other countries, with a combination of […]
Covid-19 – We had it coming says virologist
Reading Time: 3 minutesVIROLOGISTS around the world are not surprised about the Covid-19 catching up on us. We had it coming, says a Malaysian virologist Prof Sunil Kumar Lal from Monash University Malaysia. In a skype interview with The Petri Dish recently he says there are about 320 000 different known virus isolates that are yet to be […]
Earth-size, habitable-zone planet found hidden in early NASA Kepler data
Reading Time: 2 minutesA TEAM of transatlantic scientists, using reanalyzed data from NASA’s Kepler space telescope, has discovered an Earth-size exoplanet orbiting in its star’s habitable zone, the area around a star where a rocky planet could support liquid water. Scientists discovered this planet, called Kepler-1649c, when looking through old observations from Kepler, which the agency retired in 2018. […]