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Response to COVID-19 in Taiwan

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Taiwan has much to offer from experience to stop COVID-19 in its tracks. While many countries are mired in the devastating wave brought on by the coronavirus, Taiwan with a sophisticated & world-class health care network has effectively employed data analytics to flatten the curve to a large extent by taking decisive measures early on and ahead of the rest of the world. In fact, it was predicted that Taiwan would have the second-highest importation risk of any country. Considering Taiwan’s proximity to China, such effective handling of COVID-19 in Taiwan, depicted in Fig. 1, demonstrates the efficacy of data analytics in managing public health crisis. COVID-19 occurred just before the Lunar New Year during which time millions of Chinese and Taiwanese were expected to travel for the holidays. Taiwan quickly mobilized and instituted specific approaches for case identification, containment, and resource allocation to protect the public health. Taiwan leveraged its na...

The use of Technology for tackling Covid’19 – United States of America

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The unexpected rise and quick spread of a corona virus also known as COVID-19, is a reminder of the intensity of irresistible disease. It likewise offers bits of knowledge into how science and technology are better preparing us to deal with the health emergencies and contain the spread of diseases. The development of technologies and their access to wealth of data its offers, allows health officials to quickly track the spread of disease, giving vulnerable population vital information. Facebook plays role by generating maps that indicates population density and travel patterns, which are used to track people who need food supplies and who are infected with corona virus. It also helps in investigating how to control spread of COVID-19. Similarly google and twitter worked on identifying fake news about the spread of corona virus and other factors related to corona and eliminates those misinformation. When severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) broke in 2002. All countries were ...

Letter No 69:- Written By Mirza Muhammad Ghufran to Mehtar of Chitral H.H Shuja Ul Mulk

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Year 1919 AD Translated by:- Arshad Irfan Stage:- Revising and Editing Letter No 69:- Written By Mirza Muhammad Ghufran to Mehtar of Chitral H.H Shuja Ul Mulk Category: - History Copyrights: - Study Purpose only Written in: - Persian Date: - 06 October 1919 AD Description/ Background: - This letter was written in Persian by Mirza Muhammad Ghufran (1857-1926) to the Mehtar of Chitral HH Shuja Ul Mulk (1881-1936 AD). In 1893 Miza Muhmmad Ghufran completed his work on history for the first time which is available in the form of a manuscript and called the First Manuscript of Tarikh Chitral, which was translated in Urdu by Munshi Aziz Uddin. There is another history book of 100 pages written by Mirza Ghufran after the siege of chitral 1895 AD which is also available in the form of manuscript. In 1919 AD Mirza Muhammad Ghufran completed his more comprehensive work on a history of Chitral, the letter seems like the cover letter of that second manuscrip...

Data-Science Technologies used by France to Fight Covid19

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Corona viruses (CoV) are a large family of viruses. COVID’19 is a new strain of corona virus that causes sickness ranging from the usual flu to more severe diseases. It is zoonotic, meaning that it was transmitted from animal to human. It is now sure that the virus can be transmitted from human to human. The 2019/20 corona virus plague reached France on 24 January 2020, when the first COVID-19 case in Europe and France was confirmed in Bordeaux. The first five cases were all individuals who had recently arrived or returned from China. On 28 January, a Chinese tourist carrying the virus was admitted to hospital in Paris and died on 14 February, making it the first death in France. As of 9 April, France has reported 124,869 affirmed cases, 13,197 deaths, and 21,254 recoveries, making it the 5th highest country by number of confirmed cases, now overtaking China where the outbreak first began. France also counts nursing home deaths. As of 8 April France, has reported 30,902 confir...

The use of Technology for tackling Covid’19 – Italy

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The recent pandemic COVID’19 is a transferable virus caused by anew exposed coronavirus. 213 nations all over the world have specified a number of 1.7 million cases of the COVID’19 that originated from Wuhan, China, and a total of 103k deaths according to WHO (World Health Organization) as of 11th April. Italy has the highest number of deaths and cases reports from COVID’19 after the USA and Spain. According to the New York Times, one of the reasons affecting the country ‘s death percentage might be the old age group. Near 23% of residents 65 or older, Italy has the oldest residents in Europe. However, in facing the unparalleled universal health challenge posed by COVID’19, we realize an urgent requirement for progressive AI technologies to assist researchers and scientists quicken their exploration for therapeutics and diagnostics. An Artificial Intelligence worldwide organization that is headquartered in Modena, Italy, starts the fight to beat COVID’19 by granting biomedi...

Khowar Folk Stories

Dok Yakhdeez A little village of Yekhdiz, is situated in Khot on the north of Chitral. This folk lore and song are known as Yekhdiz or “Dok Yekhdiz”. It is the story of a handsome sportsman named as “LAL”, who lived in a Khot Valley and he was eager to keeping hawk, hunting and playing polo. Lal married to his beloved and her name was “KAI”, after sometime of his marriage LAL went to Yasin Valley for keeping watch of the fort of Yasin, according to the custom of the princely state. He loved his hawk, horse and newly married wife, he kept with him his horse and hawk but left behind his wife. Because he was compelled to go far flung area. During his duty in Yasin valley he suffered from a disease called Leprosy, which was an incurable disease in those days. The disease was contagious, so they kept LAL in a cave near Shandur according to the customs. He was craving for food. An old shepherdess saw him in the cave. She was bringing some milk to the LAL and putting on his pot. Once when...

Global Pandemics and “Chitral”

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Scientists and medical researchers for years have differed over the exact definitions of a Pandemic and Epidemic but they agree on “wide spread of diseases”. The world witnessed many great epidemics from the pre historic period to the known historical era of humans. The plague of Athens in Greece is the first known epidemic in the history of mankind which had occurred in 429 BC-426 BC and killed more than 100,000 people all over the globe. Europe suffered the most in any sort of epidemics in the world, in 1331-1353 AD, 60% of its population died due to the plague called the “Black Death”. Over 200 million people tasted death in the world and it was the world most deadly Pandemic in history, as it spread from Central Asia to Europe, North America and other parts of the world. Chitral now the district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa located in the north of Pakistan situated between Central Asia and South Asia may have witnessed the plague of “Black death” but we can’t say it for sure, ...