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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-ZW link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div align=center><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 style='border-collapse:collapse'><tr><td width=803 valign=top style='width:602.2pt;padding:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt'><h1 style='margin-top:0cm;line-height:15.0pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:windowtext'><a href="http://www.finsec.co.zw/"><span style='color:windowtext;mso-fareast-language:EN-ZW;text-decoration:none'><img border=0 width=871 height=306 id="_x0000_i1025" src="cid:image004.jpg@01D68C0F.43E44600" alt="cid:image004.jpg@01D68C0F.43E44600"></span></a><b><o:p></o:p></b></span></h1><h1 style='margin-top:0cm;line-height:15.0pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline'><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:windowtext'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></h1><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:15.0pt;line-height:14.25pt;vertical-align:baseline'><b><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-ZW'>Zimbabwe COVID19 Update<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><h1 style='line-height:15.0pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:windowtext'>COVID-19 update: As at 09 October 2020, Zimbabwe had 7 994 confirmed cases, including 6 474 recoveries and 229 deaths.<o:p></o:p></span></h1><h1 style='line-height:15.0pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline'><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:windowtext;mso-fareast-language:EN-ZW'><img border=0 width=755 height=1039 id="Picture_x0020_48" src="cid:image001.jpg@01D69EFE.5AFD4D80" alt=Image></span></b><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:windowtext'> <o:p></o:p></span></b></h1><div style='border:none;border-bottom:dashed #D0D0D0 1.0pt;padding:0cm 0cm 8.0pt 0cm'><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:7.5pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:22.5pt;background:white'><strong><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></strong></p></div><h1 style='margin-top:7.5pt;background:white'><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:windowtext'>Coronavirus : 350,766 daily cases reported worldwide, highest so far</span></b><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:windowtext;mso-fareast-language:EN-ZW'><o:p></o:p></span></b></h1><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><strong><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></strong></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><strong><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>Coronavirus update:</span></strong><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'> India on Friday registered 73,272 new Covid-19 cases, taking the tally to 6,979,423 and the death toll reached 107,416. For the first time after a month, the total number of active Covid-19 cases in India dipped below the 900,000-mark with 893,000 active cases reported, the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare informed.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><strong><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>Coronavirus vaccine update:</span></strong><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'> China has officially joined the World Health Organization's (WHO) COVAX alliance to equitably distribute coronavirus vaccines around the globe, ending speculation that it plans to supply them on its own to developing countries to improve its image dented by the pandemic since it emerged in Wuhan in December last year.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><strong><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>World coronavirus update:</span></strong><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'> The global tally of coronavirus cases stands at 37,099,134. While 27,890,943 have recovered, 1,072,605 have died so far. The US, the worst-hit country, has 7,864,215 cases. It is followed by India, which has 6,977,008 cases, Brazil (5,057,190 ) and Russia (1,272,238).<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><h2 style='margin-top:0cm;line-height:25.5pt;background:white;box-sizing: border-box;color:inherit'><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:windowtext'>Worldwide record 350,000 new daily cases: WHO<o:p></o:p></span></b></h2><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white;box-sizing: border-box'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>The World Health Organization reports a worldwide record of 350,000 new daily coronavirus cases.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>The UN health agency says the confirmed daily high of 350,766 cases surpasses by nearly 12,000 a record set earlier this week. That tally includes more than 109,000 cases from Europe.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>British scientists reported the coronavirus outbreak is doubling every few weeks. French hospitals are running out of ICU beds. Spain declared a state of emergency in Madrid because of soaring cases.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><h2 style='margin-top:0cm;line-height:25.5pt;background:white;box-sizing: border-box;color:inherit'><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:windowtext'>Regeneron's antibody cocktail may offer protection against Covid-19: Study<o:p></o:p></span></b></h2><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white;box-sizing: border-box'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>The experimental antibody cocktail which US President Donald Trump received when he tested positive for Covid-19 offers benefits against the novel coronavirus infection, according to a new study in animal models which provides more evidence of the clinical potential of the therapeutic.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>While earlier studies had shown that the cocktail of two antibodies targeting the coronavirus spike protein could be used to neutralise the pathogen, scientists from the American biotechnology company Regeneron noted that further research in multiple animal models is needed to test the effectiveness of the formulation.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>In the current study, published in the journal Science, the researchers tested REGN-COV2 in rhesus macaques, which manifest mild Covid-19 symptoms, and in golden hamsters, which show symptoms that are much more severe, including rapid weight loss.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><h2 style='margin-top:0cm;line-height:25.5pt;background:white;box-sizing: border-box;color:inherit'><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:windowtext'>127 Maharashtra police personnel test Covid-19 positive, tally at 24,862<o:p></o:p></span></b></h2><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:18.0pt;background:white;box-sizing: border-box'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>In Maharashtra, 127 police personnel tested positive for Covid-19 in the last 24 hours, taking total positive cases to 24,862 in the force, including 22,300 recoveries, 2,303 active cases, and 259 deaths.</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:18.0pt;background:white'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><h2 style='margin-top:0cm;line-height:25.5pt;background:white;box-sizing: border-box;color:inherit'><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:windowtext'>Covid-19 survivors are returning to hospitals with reduced heart functions<o:p></o:p></span></b></h2><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white;box-sizing: border-box'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>It has been evident that the impact of Covid-19 is way beyond influenza like conditions. Over the last few months, doctors and medical officials have realised that Covid-19 affects many more organs than just the lungs or the respiratory tract. Dr. Dinesh Kumar Mittal, Director & HOD, Adult CTVS (Cardiothoracic and Vascular Surgery), Fortis Hospital, Shalimar Bagh talks about how the heart is impacted by the virus.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>A growing number of researches have suggested that many Covid-19 survivors have experienced some or the other kind of heart damage. Many of them did not have any heart diseases earlier neither were they sick enough to be hospitalised. However, health experts later worried about an increase in heart failure. A few reports have also suggested that when imaging tests were taken months after Covid-19 recovery, patients have displayed lasting damage to the heart muscles.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><h2 style='margin-top:0cm;line-height:25.5pt;background:white;box-sizing: border-box;color:inherit'><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:windowtext'>Covid-19 crisis: 100,000 cases in Europe in a day; emergency in Madrid<o:p></o:p></span></b></h2><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white;box-sizing: border-box'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>The Spanish government declared a state of emergency for the Madrid region, as Europe’s leaders step up efforts to contain an unrelenting surge in coronavirus cases across the continent.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>Europe surpassed 100,000 daily reported Covid-19 cases for the first time, after countries, such as Spain, France, Russia, Romania, and the UK saw no respite in the mounting number of infections every day.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>Spanish PM Pedro Sanchez’s government made the decision at a special Cabinet meeting on Friday as the premier struggled to impose his authority on regional officials who have resisted his calls for restrictions on movement. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><h2 style='margin-top:0cm;line-height:25.5pt;background:white;box-sizing: border-box;color:inherit'><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:windowtext'>UK extends job support plan to firms forced to close due to Covid-19<o:p></o:p></span></b></h2><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:18.0pt;background:white;box-sizing: border-box'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>The UK government will pay two thirds of salaries for employees who worked for firms that were forced to close due to the Covid-19 pandemic, according to an extended job support plan announced by Chancellor Rishi Sunak.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:18.0pt;background:white;box-sizing: border-box'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>Under the scheme announced on Friday, businesses across the UK whose premises are legally required to shut for some period over winter as part of local or national restrictions will receive grants to pay the wages of staff who cannot work, reports Xinhua news agency.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:18.0pt;background:white;box-sizing: border-box'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>The government will support eligible businesses by paying two thirds of each employee's salary, up to a maximum of 2,100 pounds a month, from November 1 and it will be available for six months.</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:18.0pt;background:white'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><h2 style='margin-top:0cm;line-height:25.5pt;background:white;box-sizing: border-box;color:inherit'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:windowtext'>Covid-19 patients from Hindu Rao, Kasturba Hospitals to be shifted to others: Jain<o:p></o:p></span></h2><h2 style='margin-top:0cm;line-height:25.5pt;background:white'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:windowtext'><o:p> </o:p></span></h2><h2 style='margin-top:0cm;line-height:25.5pt;background:white'><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:windowtext'>Odisha's Covid-19 toll crosses 1,000-mark<o:p></o:p></span></b></h2><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:18.0pt;background:white;box-sizing: border-box'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>Odisha's Covid-19 toll crossed the 1,000-mark on Saturday with 15 more deaths, while 2,854 new cases were reported, a Health Department official said.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:18.0pt;background:white;box-sizing: border-box'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>The toll rose to 1,006 with the latest fatalities, which included five persons from the Khurda district and two from Cuttack.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:18.0pt;background:white;box-sizing: border-box'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>One patient each died in Balasore, Bolangir, Ganjam, Jagatsinghpur, Jajpur, Kendrapara, Mayurbhanj and Sundargarh, the official said.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:18.0pt;background:white;box-sizing: border-box'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>Of the new cases, 1,659 have been reported from different quarantine centres while the remaining 1,195 people tested positive during contact tracing, he said.</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:18.0pt;background:white'><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'> <o:p></o:p></span></b></p><h2 style='margin-top:0cm;line-height:25.5pt;background:white;box-sizing: border-box;color:inherit'><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:windowtext'>Coronavirus vaccine update: Russia expected to register second Covid-19 vaccine on Oct 15: Report<o:p></o:p></span></b></h2><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white;box-sizing: border-box'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>Russia is expected to register a second potential vaccine against Covid-19 on Oct. 15, the vaccine's developer said on Friday.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>The vaccine has been developed by Siberia's Vector Institute, which completed early-stage human trials of the vaccine last month. </span><strong><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'><o:p></o:p></span></strong></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><h2 style='margin-top:0cm;line-height:25.5pt;background:white;box-sizing: border-box;color:inherit'><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:windowtext'>Arunachal Pradesh coronavirus update: 279 new Covid-19 cases reported<o:p></o:p></span></b></h2><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white;box-sizing: border-box'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>At least 279 more people, including eight security personnel and two health care workers, have tested positive for Covid-19 in Arunachal Pradesh, pushing the tally to 11,760, a health department official said here on Saturday.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>A 72-year-old man, who was diagnosed with the disease, died on way to the dedicated Covid-19 hospital in Chimpu, near here, on Thursday, taking the coronavirus death toll in the northeastern state to 23, State Surveillance Officer (SSO) Dr Lobsang Jampa said<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><h2 style='margin-top:0cm;line-height:25.5pt;background:white;box-sizing: border-box;color:inherit'><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:windowtext'>Trump offers $1.8 trillion coronavirus relief packaged<o:p></o:p></span></b></h2><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white;box-sizing: border-box'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>US President Donald Trump has offered House Speaker Nancy Pelosi a $1.8 trillion coronavirus relief package, following weeks of negotiations between the two sides on a comprehensive bill to assist American businesses and workers affected by the coronavirus pandemic, according to media reports.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>The $1.8 trillion figure is up from a $1.6 trillion offer from earlier this week, although it remains below the $2.2 trillion in the bill passed by the House Democrats last week, CNN said in a report.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>The offer was made formally on Friday afternoon by Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin in phone call with Pelosi, The Hill news website reported.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>But reacting to the development, Pelosi's spokesman Drew Hammill tweeted: "Of special concern, is the absence of an agreement on a strategic plan to crush the virus. For this and other provisions, we are still awaiting language from the administration as negotiations on the overall funding amount continue."<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><b><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'> <o:p></o:p></span></b></p><h2 style='margin-top:0cm;line-height:25.5pt;background:white;box-sizing: border-box;color:inherit'><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:windowtext'>Pregnancy during coronavirus: 9 Precautions you should take before visiting hospitals<o:p></o:p></span></b></h2><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white;box-sizing: border-box'><b><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>Precautions to Take<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>The most important thing is to not get stressed out, especially during the initial weeks. Taking long showers, meditating, or reading good books can help pregnant women relax their mind. Here are some additional precautions everyone should take to safeguard themselves:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>Be extra cautious by not stepping out of the home unless necessary. Avoid crowded places.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>Eat healthy food like vegetables, fruits, and nuts to strengthen the immune system.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>Wash your hands regularly with certified hand wash and sanitizers.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>Consider booking virtual prenatal consultations instead of in-person visits to your gynecologist. Before choosing to consult a doctor online, it's important to choose a hospital that's renowned, reliable & puts people over profits.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>Only visit the hospital or clinic for mandatory prenatal procedures like ultrasound, blood tests, and fetal testing.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>Request for door delivery of medications and try to stock up on them so that, you don't have to step out.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>Ensure that the hospital has increased the cleaning frequency for all surface areas with certified disinfectants.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>Check if all healthcare equipment is thoroughly disinfected after use on each patient.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>Check with your healthcare provider and make sure that patients with coronavirus are kept isolated. It's important to ensure that pregnant women do not come in contact with COVID patients when visiting the hospital.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><h2 style='margin-top:0cm;line-height:25.5pt;background:white;box-sizing: border-box;color:inherit'><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:windowtext'>Novel coronavirus can survive on skin for 9 hours: Study<o:p></o:p></span></b></h2><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white;box-sizing: border-box'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>The SARS-CoV-2 virus, which causes Covid-19, may linger on human skin for nine hours, much longer than the flu viruses can, according to a study.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>The influenza A virus (IAV), in contrast, remained viable on human skin for nearly two hours, said the researchers including those from Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine in Japan.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>The study, published in the journal Clinical Infectious Diseases, found that both the viruses were rapidly inactivated on skin with a hand sanitiser.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>The finding underscores the importance of hand washing or using a sanitiser to prevent the spread of Covid-19.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><h2 style='margin-top:0cm;line-height:25.5pt;background:white;box-sizing: border-box;color:inherit'><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:windowtext'>India reports 73,272 new coronavirus cases, 926 fresh fatalities<o:p></o:p></span></b></h2><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white;box-sizing: border-box'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>India reported 73,272 new coronavirus cases, taking the overall caseload to 69,79,423, while 59,88,822 people have recuperated so far, pushing the recovery rate to 85.81 percent, according to the Union Health Ministry data updated Saturday.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>The death toll due to Covid-19 climbed to 1,07,416 with 926 people succumbing to the disease in a span of 24 hours, the data updated at 8 am showed.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>For the second day in a row, the number of active COVID-19 cases remained below 900,000.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><h2 style='margin-top:0cm;line-height:25.5pt;background:white;box-sizing: border-box;color:inherit'><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:windowtext'>Gujarat coronavirus update: State sees 1,243 more Covid case, 9 new deaths<o:p></o:p></span></b></h2><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white;box-sizing: border-box'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>Gujarat on Friday reported 1,243 new coronavirus cases, taking its tally to 1,49,194, while nine more people died, taking the death toll to 3,550.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>In October, the state has added 11,800 cases, with a daily average of 1,311.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>A total of 1,518 patients were discharged, taking the total to 1,29,441, while the state has 16,203 active cases, out of which 83 critical patients are on ventilator. </span><strong><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'><o:p></o:p></span></strong></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><h2 style='margin-top:0cm;line-height:25.5pt;background:white;box-sizing: border-box;color:inherit'><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:windowtext'>France coronavirus update: New Covid-19 injections top 20,000<o:p></o:p></span></b></h2><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white;box-sizing: border-box'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>French health authorities on Friday reported 20,339 new coronavirus infections in one day, a fresh record since the outbreak of the epidemic.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>The new daily tally is up from 18,129 new cases reported on Thursday, and higher than the previous high of 18,746 registered two days ago, Xinhua news agency reported. </span><strong><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'><o:p></o:p></span></strong></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><h2 style='margin-top:0cm;line-height:25.5pt;background:white;box-sizing: border-box;color:inherit'><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:windowtext'>Coronavirus in US: White House ceremony for SC nominee was a super spreader event, says Fauci<o:p></o:p></span></b></h2><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white;box-sizing: border-box'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>Anthony Fauci, America's top infectious disease expert, has identified the September 27 White House ceremony to nominate conservative Judge Amy Coney Barrett to the US Supreme Court as a "super spreader" event.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>"I think the data speaks for themselves. We had a super-spreader event in the White House and it was in a situation where people were crowded together and were not wearing masks. So the data speak for themselves," Fauci said in an interview on CBS Radio on Friday.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>Fauci's remarks came after a government memo, dated Wednesday and obtained by ABC News, revealed that at least "34 White House staffers and other contacts" have tested positive for the novel coronavirus in recent days.<o:p></o:p></span></p><h2 style='margin-top:0cm;line-height:25.5pt;background:white'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:windowtext'><o:p> </o:p></span></h2><h2 style='margin-top:0cm;line-height:25.5pt;background:white'><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:windowtext'>China joins WHO-backed vaccine programme COVAX rejected by Trump<o:p></o:p></span></b></h2><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white;box-sizing: border-box'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>China has joined a global scheme for the distribution of COVID-19 vaccine backed by the World Health Organization (WHO), it said on Friday, giving a major boost to an initiative shunned by US President Donald Trump.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>Beijing's latest bid to join the global fight against the coronavirus follows criticism over its handling of the pandemic, which has contributed to a growing unfavourable view of China in advanced nations, a recent survey showed.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>"We are taking this concrete step to ensure equitable distribution of vaccines, especially to developing countries, and hope more capable countries will also join and support COVAX," foreign ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying said in a statement.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-ZW'><img border=0 width=621 height=464 id="Picture_x0020_23" src="cid:image008.jpg@01D69EFC.CC7D28B0" alt="Coronavirus, covid, tests"></span><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;line-height:115%;background:white;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;line-height:115%;background:white;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;background:white'><i><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-ZW'>Invest Wisely!</span></i><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-ZW'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;background:white'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-ZW'>Bulls n Bears <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;background:white'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-ZW'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;background:white'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-ZW'>Telephone: </span><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'><a href="tel:%2B263%204%202927658" target="_blank"><span style='color:windowtext;mso-fareast-language:EN-ZW'>+263 4 2927658</span></a></span><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-ZW'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;background:white'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-ZW'>Cellphone: </span><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'><a href="tel:%2B263%2077%20344%201674" target="_blank"><span style='color:windowtext;mso-fareast-language:EN-ZW'>+263 77 344 1674</span></a></span><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-ZW'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;background:white'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-ZW'>Alt. 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