India recorded over 90,000 new coronavirus infections for the third consecutive day, which took the nationwide Covid tally to 1,26,86,049 cases on Tuesday.
On Monday, India recorded an all-time high of 1,03,558 single day new coronavirus infections in a span of 24 hours, while the death toll increased to 1,65,547 with 446 daily new fatalities on Tuesday.
Covid 19 prevention: Google urges people to wear mask through a doodle
Google on Tuesday urged people to wear masks and save lives through a Doodle. Putting a mask on all its alphabets, Google shared information resources for people to know and understand how they can prevent coronavirus spread.
The alarming rise in number of cases pushed Google to remind people that masks are still important to save lives.
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Penang-born and -based physician Dr Wu Lien-teh was honoured by Google Doodles today, 10 March, for his birthday in 1879.
Dr Wu’s Google Doogle showing his very first prototype masks that saved countless frontliners from the Manchurian plague.
(Credit: Google)
It’s only fitting that he should make a comeback, 60 years after his death, in the midst of a pandemic, because this Penang doctor pretty much
invented the face masks we use everyday now.
In the late 1910s, a deadly plague spread through Manchuria with a 100% fatality rate. Dr Wu correctly identified that the plague was spreading through the air, and not through fleas as previously suspected.
Who Was Dr. Wu Lien-teh? Google Doodle Celebrates Surgical Face Mask Pioneer
On 3/10/21 at 4:51 AM EST
Dr. Wu Lien-teh is celebrated in today s Google Doodle on what would have been his 142nd birthday. The Chinese-Malaysian epidemiologist invented a surgical face covering that is considered the precursor to the N95 mask, which is widely used today to combat the spread of COVID-19.
Wu was born on this day in 1879, to a family of Chinese immigrants in Penang, Malaya, which is modern-day Malaysia. Wu became the first student of Chinese descent to earn his MD from Cambridge University before joining China s Imperial Army Medical College as vice director in 1908.