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Legendary actor Rishi Kapoor, who tragically succumbed to cancer this morning, was never afraid to speak his mind. It was for this reason that...

The death toll due to COVID-19 rose to 775 and the number of cases climbed to 24,506 in the country on Saturday, according to...

Veteran India wicketkeeper-batsman Mahendra Singh Dhoni is spending some quality time with along with family at his lavish farmhouse in his hometown. Recently, his wife...

Indian-origin British filmmaker Gurinder Chadha's aunt has died due to coronavirus complications. The director said her aunt passed away on Sunday in a hospital in...

The number of COVID-19 cases in Jammu and Kashmir has climbed to 354 as four more persons tested positive for the virus, officials said...

Just the other day all was good in China. The dragon was rising, other countries were quivering. Then suddenly we have a shift. We go from Karo Na Pyaar Hai to Corona Virus Hai. If we look back at history, and mind you, that is a very stupid sentence because you can’t look forward at history. Although, if history does repeat itself, then when you look back at history, you are also looking forward at the same time. Anyway, please stop arguing. Looking back at history, humanity has suffered so many great diseases. The Loci, the Bubonic Plague, Kim Jong-il, all spring to mind. Along with misery, these diseases had another great point in common. Everyone and their sick mother would dispense advice on how to cope and identify this disease. Some say this continuous stream of unsolicited advice is worse than the disease itself. In the days of the Bubonic plague, the top 5 pieces of advice were (a) Avoid monkeys, (b) Avoid monkey bars, (c) Avoid hairy people, (d) Don’t park too close to the curb, and (e) Return your monkey. All these were erroneous. Mostly because the plague was not caused by baboons, but by a French doctor called Dr Moreau. Who, truth be told, may have had a pet baboon. Although some argued that was simply his hirsute, muscular wife. So, you see from all this, a lot of ‘fake’ news, to quote Donald Trump, is being dispelled. What’s true for before is true for now. So let me, as a humanitarian first, and a medical professional without a degree second, help people understand, myths and facts about today’s Bubonic Plague – The Coronavirus. Which goes by many different names but since those are in Mandarin and Cantonese, we will stick to the virus, corona.