Baseless, misleading: AYUSH Ministry on claim by NICE on approval to its Covid treatment protocol
India | July 30, 2021 7:46 ISTThe AYUSH Ministry on Thursday denied giving any approval to a COVID-19 treatment protocol developed by NICE.
The AYUSH Ministry on Thursday denied giving any approval to a COVID-19 treatment protocol developed by NICE.
Who will be responsible for the third wave? Looking at cases in Kerala looks like we are heading towards the third wave: Sambit Patra, BJP Spokesperson.
In his briefing obtained by AP, Rajasingham said that so far in 2021 almost 3-quarters of countries needing humanitarian aid have recorded more cases or deaths than in all of 2020.
According to Pulungan, over 800 children younger than 18 have died from the virus in Indonesia since the pandemic began, but the majority of those deaths have occurred only in the past month.
Researchers from the Boston Children's Hospital assessed the health of 551 people admitted to the hospital for Covid-19 in Italy from March through May 2020. About half of the patients (46 percent), with no history of diabetes, were found to have new hyperglycemia.
In a written reply, Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya said vaccination protects from severe manifestation of the disease and improves herd immunity, and is accordingly likely to mitigate the impact COVID-19 may have with any future resurgence.
High caseload areas of Lucknow will witness targetted Covid sampling in order to check the third wave of the pandemic in the state capital.
With 38,740 people discharged in the last 24 hours, the number of recoveries now stands at 3,04,68,079 across the country.
According to current estimates, the Delta variant could be more than twice as transmissible as the original strain of SARS-CoV-2, the virus causing Covid-19. The variant, which was first identified in India in late 2020, has now become the predominant strain and has spread to at least 111 countries.
The pandemic could have been under control by now, if vaccines that were "meant to douse the flames of the pandemic" were allocated more equitably, Ghebreyesus said in his keynote speech at the 138th International Olympic Committee Session.
In addition to funds allocated under the National Health Mission, the Centre has approved nearly Rs 40,000 crore for prevention of COVID-19.
On health, economic and social fronts, the World Bank has spent more than $157 Billion to fight COVID pandemic.
More than 2,60,12,352 balance and unutilised COVID-19 vaccine doses are still available with states and UTs and private hospitals to be administered.
The official data showed that 39,806 samples were tested in the last 24 hours as of 8:00 a.m. local time Sunday across Bangladesh.
While stating the next 125 days to be crucial, the Union health ministry has observed that fall in cases has slowed down which should be treated as a warning sign.
The ministry said 15,75,140 more doses are in the process of being supplied.
VHP international joint secretary also pointed out that in the recent past, Jagannath Yatra was permitted to take place with certain restrictions.
Kerala CM Pinarayi Vijayan observed that the test positivity rate is now down to 10% as opposed to a whopping 29%.
Lockdown or other stringent restrictions may be imposed in other parts of the state by deputy commissioners depending on the coronavirus situation.
Head of epidemiology and infectious diseases at the ICMR, Dr Samiran Panda said, "It's very important for each state to examine the state level epidemic and take a call like some of them might be in a situation where they have the very low intensity of the first and second wave."
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