Many NGOs and individual doctors have also started free consultation for Coronavirus patients across the country. (Representative image) Even as the number of Coronavirus cases has started declining in the country, the stress on strained medical infrastructure of the country remains overwhelming. In an attempt to provide online consultation to home quarantined Coronavirus patients, Avaya … Read more
The supplies will augment India’s O2 availability amidst a surge of the coronavirus pandemic and worsening health crisis due to shortage of oxygen, critical for treating Covid 19 patients. India got more overseas aid on Monday as nine warships deployed by the Indian Navy, as part of its Covid relief ‘Operation Samudra Setu II’, transported … Read more
The study compared the behaviour of the virus among patients who were infected with the B.1.1.7 variant and those patients who had been infected with earlier prevalent Covid-19 virus strains. Even as Coronavirus spreads with multiple variants in different countries around the world at an astronomical pace, two new studies published in Lancet Infectious Diseases … Read more
Covid-19 South African variant in India: The South African government has said that the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine, on which Covishield is based, has ‘limited’ efficacy against the South African variant. (IE image) Covid-19 South African variant in India: With the availability of multiple Covid-19 vaccines and extensive vaccination programmes being carried out around the world, there … Read more
Coronavirus Covid-19 vaccine: Eminent American infectious diseases expert Dr. Anthony Fauci has revealed that the first doses of a “safe and effective” vaccine against Covid-19 is likely to become available to “high-risk Americans” in late December or early January 2020. (Reuters image) Coronavirus Covid-19 vaccine update: With Delhi, Kerala in India, the US, and several … Read more
Coronavirus Covid-19 update: The study has claimed that cleansing of the forest for commercial purposes, poaching, and wildlife trading would result in close contact between pathogens and humans. (Reuters image) Coronavirus update: Prevention is better than cure! We must protect nature in order to protect ourselves from even deadlier pandemics than the ongoing Coronavirus, scientists … Read more