How some cities 'flattened the curve' during the 1918 flu pandemic ..Today Coronavirus plays that role

Coronavirus, the first cases of which were discovered in the city of Wuhan in December 2019, continues to spread across the globe. So far more than 7.5 lakh cases of infection and 33 thousand more deaths have been registered. The Corona positive cases and deaths goes up day by day around the world. Especially Europe and United States of America are the great sufferers now. Panicky rumours are circulating on the Internet that over a thousand people are dying in Wuhan. At the Chinese border, Russians are refusing to work with goods from China because they believe they're infected. They are taking precautions at every level, and as a result prices are going up and business is going down. A dictatorship may be perfectly positioned to enforce a quarantine.CORONAVIRUS' epicentre is known to be Wuhan, a Chinese province - but an unearthed report claims the Spanish Flu pandemic may have originated in China more than a century ago, too.The Spanish flu is one of the worst has killed more than 100 million people maximum in 1918. The flu by positing that it developed first in Europe’s trenches. It began in the trenches or ended up there after the arrival of American troops, the virus spread quickly to German soldiers and to neutral Spain. Spain to erroneously think that it was alone in enduring such a brutal outbreak — hence the name `Spanish flu.` Russian POWs returning from Germany spread the disease to the newly created Soviet Union, and by May and June, various countries in Africa, as well as India, China, and Japan, all had outbreaks. In particular, had more brutal effects than typical influenza, not least because it was likelier than the ordinary flu to be joined by bacterial pneumonia. caused most of the deaths in the 1918 flu outbreak.While today countries keep detailed records of testing and diagnosis for new outbreaks (as they’ve been doing during the coronavirus crisis), there was no such record-keeping capacity in the late 1910s.

India beat New Zealand Again in second T-20 by 7 wickets


India beat New Zealand by seven wickets with 15 balls to spare. Both the two young talents from India KLRahul and Shreyas Iyer leads the team in to the consecutive victory in a row. Earlier in the same Eaden ground in Akland the first T-20 match India registers 6 wicket win. The boys Rahul and Shreyas knocked fifties. Shreyas have got player of the match with his brilliant knock. And Todays entire match also went around the two young Indian Batsmen. Man of the match Lokesh Rahul gets tremndous 57* 0ff 50 balls. With his support Shreyas again played a great innings. He gets 44 out off 33 balls. Then He was out trying to hit the ball over the ropes. An excellent catch from Tim Southee. However, this wicket is more of a consolation for Ish Sodhi as India need just 8 runs from 21 deliveries. The run chase did not get off to an ideal start as Rohit Sharma lost his wicket to Tim Southee in the first over. Southee also got the wicket of Virat Kohli(11) in the sixth over of the innings. Rahul brought the run chase back on the track alongside Shreyas Iyer with an 86-run partnership for the third wicket. Rahul scored his second fifty on the trot in the series from 43 deliveries and remained unbeaten for 57. Earlier Black Caps’ skipper Kane Williamson won the toss, elected to bat first. Martin Guptill got the hosts off to a good start but lost his wicket for 33 in the sixth over to Shardul Thakur. Colin Munro failed to make a mark as he got out to Shivam Dube after scoring 26 runs from 25 deliveries. Indian bowlers continued to put pressure on Kiwi batsmen in the middle overs. Kane Williamson struggled to get the ball into gaps and lost his wicket trying to sweep Ravindra Jadeja. He took two wickets for 18 runs.With this victory India move ahead 2-0 lead in the five Matches T-20 series.

Amazon `The lungs of the world`


The Amazon Rainforest, also known as Lungs of the World. This forest supplies 20 percent of oxygen to the entire world. Is a moist broadleaf forest that covers most of the Amazon Basin of South America. More than half of the forest is contained within Brazil, the rest of it in Peru, Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador, Bolivia, Guyana, Suriname and French Guiana, covering five and a half million square kilometers, or 1.4 billion acres. The Amazon represents over half of the planet’s remaining rainforests, and it comprises the largest and most species-rich tract of tropical rainforest in the world. The diversity of plant species is the highest on Earth.

sri lanka's face veil ban comes into effect

Sri Lanka ban all types of face covers burqas and masks comes into effect today. Muslim women in Sri Lanka will not be allowed to wear any form of face veils in public from Monday under new regulations announced by President Maithripala Sirisena who used emergency powers in the wake of the Easter Sunday bombings. The new regulation banning any form of face covering was announced by the President on Sunday, a week after the coordinated blasts hit three churches and three luxury hotels, killing over 300 people and inuring more than 500 others. The ban is to ensure national security.. No one should obscure their faces to make identification difficult, Sirisena's office said in a statement. He took steps under the emergency regulation to prohibit the use of face coverings of all sorts which is an obstacle to ensure the identity of the people and a threat to national and public security. The order clarifies that the key criterion for establishing the identity of a person is the need to clearly expose the face, the report said. The President has taken this decision to establish a peaceful and cohesive society which does not inconvenience any community people as well as ensure national security, it added. Muslims account for 10 per cent of the population and are the second-largest minority after Hindus. Around seven per cent of Sri Lankans are Christians.

Pollution hangs over Indian capital as farm stubble fires rage

New Delhi’s air quality was at its worst this season on Thursday, as winds heavy with toxic smoke from polluting vehicles and smoldering cro...