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This was almost a full week before the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported the outbreak COVID-19, and nine days before the World Health Organization reported it. BlueDot is the creator as well as user of a global health monitoring platform that is driven by artificial intelligence (AI). The technology used in this platform helped BlueDot to learn about a new virus.

With the role of AI increasing in the healthcare sector, private healthcare organizations who have been employing AI capabilities for years for a wide variety of use cases, are now using it even more. Hence, now federal civilian and defense healthcare agencies are also embracing and adopting AI.

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The untreatable Coronavirus has so far infected 80,000 and killed more than 2,700 individuals globally, but the virus could soon lose its invincible tag, as the treatment of Coronavirus could soon be on the rise, as the first study from the United States of America to cure the virus is on its way. The news of drug testing surfaced on Tuesday (25th February 2020), as the government health officials warned that the virus could easily and eventually spread through the continent.

The clinical trial and testing of drug safety and effectiveness of antivirus drug started in the University of Nebraska Medical center located in Omaha, the first volunteer of the test is a US citizen evacuated from the Diamond princess cruise docked in Japan. The US currently has 60 confirmed cases of coronavirus, and the United States officials have asked the citizens to be prepared as the number could soon rise. President has assured the citizens of the USA that the country is ready to spend whatever is required to safeguard the people.

FDA has stated that without a proper medicine to cure coronavirus, the mortality rate in the United States could be similar to that of China. The Chinese even with high-quality healthcare setup faced a mortality rate of 2%, so the situation in the USA could reflect the same results.

Remdesivir, is the drug that is being tested for treatment of coronavirus, this drug was previously tested on humans for Ebola, while as it was tested on the animal during the MERS and SARS. Participants of the US group for treatment will be injected with 200 milligrams of Remdesivir when they’re enrolled in the study, and they would be injected with additional 100 milligrams in the course of 10 days when they are hospitalized and a secondary group will

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4% of South African population is infected by HIV

The returning citizens would be quarantined for 21 days

The novel coronavirus has spread throughout the world, affecting more than 90000 individuals, and killing around 3000 of them, World Health Organization (WHO) has declared the outbreak as a public emergency and an international concern, the first case of COVID-19 was detected in China in the month of December. The disease is believed to be extremely fatal for individuals with a weak immune system, this being the major reason of why coronavirus can prove to be deadly in South Africa.

South Africa is the world leader in the active cases of HIV and ranks second in terms of TB patients, as per the report by world health organization 20.4% of South African population is infected by HIV, and only 62% of them are receiving a treatment for the disease, risk of getting pneumonia also increases by 3 fold if the person is already infected by flu, coronavirus has similar symptoms to that of flu, thus ASSAF (The Academy of Science of South Africa) believes the HIV infected population can be the worst affected by the outbreak.

While all the countries have evacuated their citizens from China, South African nation is very skeptical of bringing back the African students from China, they believe this could be the reason for the outbreak of coronavirus and the nation is not yet ready to tackle an outbreak, and could lead to heavy loss of life and create a chaos, however, the Africans are planning to bring the students back home, they just believe it is not needed given the current scenario.

Zweli Mkhize, South Africas health minister stated that 151 students have expressed their desire to return back, but the country wants to bring back its students without putting a strain on the citizens home, the ministry has developed a plan to quarantine the returning citizens for 21 days and the process of bringing the students back will be carried out by the African military over the span of 10 days.