Stressing on the need to protect both lives and livelihoods, he said public health action in India and across the world must be continually guided by evidence from four key questions — how transmissible is the variant, severity of the disease it causes, how well vaccines and prior SARS-CoV-2 infection protect and how common people … Read more
Mizoram government has imposed new Covid-19 guidelines on Friday. (PTI Image) Even with national Covid-19 average under control, a small village in Mizoram is facing a disproportionately large number of cases out of which 16 per cent belong to people of the age group between 1-10 years. Prevalence of Covid among children in this town … Read more
Delta variants are eight times less unresponsive to vaccine-induced antibodies The Covid-19 Delta variant of the SARS-CoV-2 virus with a much higher ability to infect and transmit between individuals is now found in 170 countries, says the World Health Organisation. The Delta variant, or the B.1.617.2 lineage, was first discovered in Maharashtra and was mostly … Read more
Covid positive mothers can breastfeed newborns . (Getty Image) Often Covid positive mothers flinch from taking care of their kids or breastfeed them, but neonatal experts opine that breastfeeding infants can only give them the required immunity to fight against infection, Covid-19 being one of them. Here’s what is kangaroo mother’s care and why newborns … Read more
The basic difference between a concentrator and a cylinder is the way they provide oxygen. India is currently facing the second wave of Covid-19 and experts believe that the country is in the middle of the worst phase. With around four lakh new cases of coronavirus infections being reported daily over the past few days, … Read more
Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Thursday said the industry is in recovery mode and several Budget proposals are on course, including disinvestment, despite a fresh wave of coronavirus infections and local lockdowns. The government, the minister said, has been taking steps to deal with the second wave of COVID-19 with regard to supply of medicines … Read more
KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia‘s economy fell at a faster than expected clip in the fourth quarter, as stricter coronavirus curbs crimped domestic consumption and slowed the pace of recovery, the central bank said on Thursday. The economy contracted 3.4% year-on-year in the October-December period, falling for a third straight quarter and faster than the 3.1% decline … Read more
Growth in India’s dominant services industry continued to lose momentum in December as a resurgence in coronavirus infections weighed on new business and employment, a private survey showed on Wednesday. Asia’s third-largest economy has been gradually recovering from a coronavirus-induced recession but is not expected to return to pre-pandemic levels soon, especially within the service … Read more
Nearly half the tests conducted in the city are using the RAT technique. Besides, there has been no increase in testing capacity. (Representational image: IE) Mumbai will soon hit the 3-lakh mark for coronavirus infections, becoming the third Indian city to do so. More worryingly, critical cases as a proportion of active cases have been … Read more
The study also found that most cases of Coronavirus infections and resultant deaths were found in the 40-69 year age group. A small percentage of Covid-19 infected people have been responsible for large scale spread of the disease in the country, according to the findings of a recently conducted contact tracing study in Andhra Pradesh … Read more