new world hantaviruses and in europe and asia march 27humanoid robots the sawai man singh sms government hospital in jaipur is to introduce the usage of humanoid robots to provide services to the covid19 patients admitted in the hospitalcoronavirus drugs trial the world health organization who has begun a global mega trial of the four most promising drugs that may cure the novel coronavirus the 4 drugs are remdesivir chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine ritonavir and lopinavir ritonavirlopinavir and interferonbeta mega trial the mega trial by who is called solidarity under solidarity the scientist will study test and develop an antidote against coronavirus will be done march 28train coaches as isolation wards the indian railways have prepared a prototype of train coaches that can be used as isolation units for covid19 patients the move is to face challenges that might be caused due to the outbreak of coronavirus highlights initially 10 coaches will be converted into isolation units for those affected by covid 19 there are 17 zones in indian railwayscoronavirus lockdown an article published in the financial times stated that the coronavirus lockdown has affected indias supply chain the countrys farmers are not certain if they should harvest crops as the rural markets are close and there is no way to transport their supplies to the urban marketsurban consumers are facing challenges due to the lack of supplies that has resulted in a rise in the prices of essential commodities the urban wholesale markets have reduced their incomingmarch 29self declaration covid19 nagaland app chief minister of nagaland neiphiu rio launched the self declaration covid19 nagaland app at kohima on 28 march the app is aimed to trace the person who entered the state as a measure to tackle the spread of coronavirus self declaration covid19 nagaland app the app will be mandatory for any person who entered nagaland after 6th march the app is available for android and ios usersconvalescent plasma a study suggested that the convalescent plasma could be a possible treatment methodology convalescent plasma refers to the plasma extracted from those who are recovering from coronavirus covid19 the study was conducted at the infectious disease department shenzhen third peoples hospital in shenzhen china study highlights the study included five patients critically ill with covid19 the preliminary results from the test were promisingmarch 30tokyo 2020 summer olympics in july 2021 tokyo olympics organizers are planning to host the tokyo 2020 summer olympics in july 2021 the event was delayed due to the coronavirus the tokyo organising committee is planning to begin the events from 23 july 2021 the day was suggested by tokyo governor yuriko koike the plan to host it in july 2021 comes as the international olympic committee ioc had decided to move the games to be held in northern sapporo city japan instead of tokyo uninterrupted lpg supply the union minister of oil dharmendra pradhan said that saudi arabia has announced to provide uninterrupted liquid petroleum gas lpg supplies to india on 29 march he discussed