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POLITICS  / K. Venkateshwar Rao 24 APRIL 2020 With the growing number of deaths and the increasing spread of coronavirus across the continents, the global community’s ire towards China seems to be growing. The Chinese strategy of projecting itself as a victim of the pandemic and extending a helping hand in this hour of crisis appear to have increasingly few takers. Calling Out China Moreover, the USA, the UK, France, Australia, and Germany are joining the chorus who are castigating China for suppressing the facts on COVID-19 and misleading their own people and the world, thereby enabling the worldwide spread of coronavirus. Amid the growing clamor in favor of penalizing China in some way, the US state of Missouri has filed a lawsuit in the US District Court against the Chinese government, the ruling Chinese Communist Party, and other Chinese officials and institutions. The State of Missouri alleges that Beijing’s actions of arresting whistleblowers and suppressing informa

SOCIETY   / K. Venkateshwar Rao 9 APRIL 2020 American President Donald Trump is so fascinated by the healing capabilities of the Indian anti-malaria drug hydroxychloroquine that he has forgotten his bonhomie with the Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and gone to the extent of threatening retaliatory actions if India does not permit exports of the drug to America. Hydroxychloroquine Has Shown Some Positive Results in Treating Covid-19 Hydroxychloroquine has been successfully used by some doctors in the treatment of coronavirus and has been termed as a game-changer by Trump in the fight against coronavirus. Hydroxychloroquine is popularly known as an antiviral agent has displayed strong antiviral effects on the coronavirus infection and is currently being experimented by many countries as a possible treatment for SARS-CoV-2 that causes Covid-19. China found that chloroquine could slow down SARS-CoV-2 in vitro, and indicated apparent efficacy in treating COVID-19 in humans