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Microsoft Bing team launches covid-19 portal for global tracking of cases An interactive map allows site visitors to click on the country to see the specific number of cases and related articles from a variety of publishers Current Affairs :While Google is as yet taking a shot at a coronavirus screening and following site, Microsoft Bing group has just propelled a web-based interface for following COVID-19 diseases around the world. The site, available at bing.com/covid, gives cutting-edge contamination insights for every nation. The COVID-19 Tracker at present records 168,835 as complete affirmed cases, 84,558 dynamic cases, 77,761 recuperated cases and 6,516 passings. There are in any event 3,244 affirmed instances of novel coronavirus in the US and at any rate 61 passings. “Bunches of Bing people worked (from home) this previous week to make a mapping and legitimate news asset for COVID19 information,” Michael Schechter, General Manager for Bing Growth and Distrib...

Coronavirus outbreak can now be classified as a pandemic, says WHO WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said he was troubled by the spread and severity of the outbreak, along with a lack of action taken to combat it. Current Affairs :The new coronavirus episode would now be able to be depicted as a pandemic, the leader of the World Health Organization declared Wednesday. WHO boss Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said he was pained by the spread and seriousness of the flare-up, alongside an absence of activity taken to battle it. “WHO has been evaluating this flare-up nonstop and we’re profoundly concerned, both by the disturbing degrees of spread and seriousness, and by the disturbing degrees of inaction,” he told a news meeting in Geneva. “We have thusly made the evaluation that COVID-19 can be portrayed as a pandemic.” The quantity of cases in more than 100 nations around the globe has ascended to more than 124,000, with more than 4,500 passings, remembering a hop for fa...

Passengers from Italy, Iran too will be screened for coronavirus: DGCA Passengers from 10 countries — China, Hong Kong, Japan, South Korea, Thailand, Singapore, Nepal, Indonesia, Vietnam and Malaysia — are already being screened at Indian airports Current Affairs :Aeronautics controller DGCA said on Monday that all travelers originating from Italy and Iran would experience warm screening for novel coronavirus, hours after the legislature declared two crisp positive cases with one having an ongoing travel history of the European nation. Travelers from 10 nations – China, Hong Kong, Japan, South Korea, Thailand, Singapore, Nepal, Indonesia, Vietnam and Malaysia – are as of now being screened at Indian air terminals. The DGCA expressed in a roundabout on Monday, “So as to forestall the spread of COVID-19 (novel coronavirus 2019) malady in India, it has been chosen to grow the all inclusive screening of all travelers showing up in flights from Italy and Iran.” Two crisp in...

Climate change to hurt health of children born in India for life: Lancet Indian children, who are already exposed to bad air and are particularly susceptible to malnutrition and infectious diseases, will experience greater impacts of climate change Current Affairs :At current outflow rates, a kid conceived today will confront deep rooted wellbeing effects of environmental change, as per another report. When the individual turns 71, the world will be 4 degrees-Celsius (deg-C) hotter than the pre-mechanical degrees of the mid-1700s. Indian kids, who are as of now presented to terrible air and are especially defenseless to hunger and irresistible infections, will encounter more prominent effects of environmental change, as we clarify later. Here are a portion of the manners by which environmental change will affect the lives of youngsters from early stages to mature age, according to the 2019 The Lancet Countdown report distributed in The Lancet, a therapeutic diary: Cont...