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Men’s blood contains greater concentrations of ACE2 enzyme making them more susceptible to COVID-19

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One of the most remarkable observation with COVID 19 disease was that males are more vulnerable to this virus than females. As given in the graph below, in many countries men are at a significantly higher risk of having severe symptoms and dying when compared to women. A recent study study, published in the European Heart Journal on 11th May (Monday), has been able to give a clear explanation to this observation. The study done by a team headed by Dr Adriaan Voors (MD-PhD), Professor of Cardiology at the University Medical Center Groningen (The Netherlands) was aimed at finding the effect of renin–angiotensin–aldosterone system (RAAS) inhibitors on ACE2 concentrations in blood plasma.

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COVID-19 pandemic, an ideal opportunity for innovation?

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Innovation is a new idea, creative thought or a new imagination in the form of a device or a method which originates as a solution to a problem. When there are more problems around, more innovations come up. During the world war ii many new inventions ranging from antibiotics to rocket technologies. Many of those inventions were a result of the hardship people had to go through during those difficult and challenging times. At present COVID 19 pandemic has created such scenario where the entire human population facing one of the biggest challenges the world has ever faced creating many problems individually and socially. We can see individuals and organizations going after answers or solutions for those problems paving the way to many innovations and inventions throughout the world.

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LKA Microbiologists Express Concern Over the Use of Decontamination Chambers and Disinfectants

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Amidst the COVID-19 fears spreading all around the island many individuals and organizations took many safety measures to control the spread of this deadly virus within the society. Among those measures one of the most popular was the use of decontamination chambers, many factories, offices and institutes installed these chambers at their entrances and all those who enter the premises are asked to go through these chambers in order to get themselves disinfected.

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Sri Lankan Scientists Read the Full Genome of SARS-Cov-2 and Identify Four Different Strains of The Virus

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A group of scientists from the University of Sri Jayawardenapura has been able to fully decode the genome of the SARS-Cov2 virus. According to a news report by the University the research team headed by Prof. Neelika Malawige from the Centre for Dengue Research at the Allergy, Immunology and Cell Biology Unit has also been able to identify four different strains of the SARS-Cov-2 virus from Covid 19 patients in Sri Lanka. According to the university website this is the first time in which a full genome of a virus has been sequenced in Sri Lanka.

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