August 2021 – Page 4 – Dr Ramakanta's Ideas

20 August, World Mosquito Day

20th August, 1897 was a Friday. It was also hot and humid at Secunderabad like any other tropical August day. After already dissecting thousands of mosquitoes without any success, a bone-tired Ronald Ross that day looked into the stomach of the mosquito no. 38 at 1pm. He had been looking into the eye piece ofContinue reading “20 August, World Mosquito Day”

Pandemic Update, 20th August 2021

daily covid update from various international sources.

Pandemic Update, 19th August 2021

Total cases – 210 million+ ( 210,042,613): Up by 7% New cases – 608,555 Deaths Reported – 44 lakh+ ( 4,403,917) : Up by 5% ( Source: Worldometer) Under reporting of Covid related Death should be kept in mind. Top Five Countries with the highest 24-hour new cases as reported on: U.S. – 137,307 IranContinue reading “Pandemic Update, 19th August 2021”

The Best Rule..

United States with a population of 0.3 billion has already used 200 million doses of vaccine and is now considering third dose for all its citizens. 1.3 billion people of the whole African continent have received only 58 million doses till date. The percentage of fully vaccinated is only 2.2%. WHO requests the rich nationsContinue reading “The Best Rule..”