“However, thanks to the hard work of NHS staff and the innovations in treatment and care developed over the course of the pandemic, hospitals treated more than one million people with other conditions in January, at the peak of the winter wave, nearly twice as many as they did last April. Source link
Jan. 1, 2021 — The United States started 2021 they way it ended 2020: Setting new records amidst the coronavirus pandemic. The country passed the 20 million mark for coronavirus cases on Friday, setting the mark sometime around noon, according to Johns Hopkins University’s COVID-19 tracker. The total is nearly twice as many as … Read more
The Nuffield Trust report says while the number of Covid cases in rural areas was lower than in big urban centres, the pandemic’s impact on services has been much greater. Source link
Heavy rains wreaked havoc in the western and southern part of India on Wednesday and killed 35 people across Telangana, Andhra Pradesh, Maharashtra and Karnataka. A deep depression in the Bay of Bengal which crossed the coast in Kakinada left behind a trail of destruction in the southern states. Hyderabad suffered the brunt of the … Read more
In a video message posted on his official social media handles, US President Donald Trump said that catching the coronavirus was a ‘blessing from God’. “I feel perfect. I think this was a blessing from God that I caught it. This was a blessing in disguise. I caught it, I heard about this [Regeneron] drug … Read more
The strike by the employees of the Purvanchal Vidyut Vitran Nigam Limited against proposed privatisation continued for a second day on Tuesday, affecting power supply in several regions of Uttar Pradesh. Major city Allahabad saw power outage for over 16 hours. Electricity board employees sit on a dharna in Prayagraj. (Photo: PTI) The employees including … Read more
TUESDAY, Sept. 22, 2020 (HealthDay News) — Minority residents of U.S. nursing homes and assisted living communities have been especially hard hit in the coronavirus pandemic, two University of Rochester studies show. The first found that nursing homes with higher percentages of racial and ethnic minority residents reported two to four times more new … Read more
Sept. 22, 2020 — Just over 6 months after the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a pandemic, the United States has reached a grim milestone: the novel coronavirus death toll has climbed to a staggering 200,000. “It’s sobering. It’s a large number, and clearly it tells us that everything we’re doing right now to … Read more
August 18, 2020 — Coronavirus deaths in the United States passed the 170,000 mark on Sunday — by far the most of any country in the world — with health experts saying another surge of coronavirus cases coupled with the impending flu season could create a deadly “twindemic.” Worldwide there have been about 776,000 coronavirus-related … Read more