Health

12 Feb

Fresh Covid-19 cases come down to 977 in Delhi

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The number of fresh Covid-19 cases in Delhi dipped to 977 on Friday from 1,104 on Thursday with 56, 444 tests conducted during the past 24 hours across the national capital. According to the latest Delhi government’s health bulletin, the infection positivity rate stood at 1. 73 per cent. The positivity rate was 2.09 per cent. The city lost another 12 lives due to the virus infection, taking the cumulative count of such fatalities to 26,047, it said. There were 12 such casualties yesterday.

11 Feb

India reports 13% dip in new Covid cases

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India reported 58,077 fresh Covid infections in a span of 24 hours on Friday, which is around 13 per cent lower than those reported on previous day. On Thursday, the country had seen 67,084 new Covid cases. In the last 24 hours, a total 657 deaths were reported, taking the toll to 5,07,177, said the Union Health ministry on Friday morning. The active Covid case has been reduced to 6,97,802, which constitutes 1.64 per cent of the country’s total positive cases. The recovery of 1,50,407 patients in the last 24 hours has increased the cumulative tally to 4,13,31,158. Consequently, India’s…

09 Feb

Global Covid caseload tops 400 mn

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The global coronavirus caseload has topped 400 million, while the deaths have surged to more than 5.76 million and vaccinations to over 10.09 billion, according to Johns Hopkins University. The University’s Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) revealed that the current global caseload and the death toll stood at 400,487,672 and 5,762,582, respectively, while the total number of vaccine doses administered has increased to 10,096,476,161. The US continues to be the worst-hit country with the world’s highest number of cases and deaths at 77,051,222 and 908,816, according to the CSSE. The second worst hit country in terms of cases…

08 Feb

Advanced medical technologies can reduce the risk of Heart Failure

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India continues to see a spike in the incidence of heart ailments and diseases. Ppatients who are at high risk of Heart Failure must be aware of the advanced and high performing medical devices available today in India to help prevent and reduce the incidence of fatalities. Dr Dipankar Das, Interventional Cardiologist, Narayana Superspeciality Hospital, Guwahati, urges heart patients in India to closely monitor their heart health and not ignore any worrisome symptoms. Heart Failure refers to the heart's inability to pump enough blood to meet the body's needs and is often misunderstood by masses. A heart in Heart Failure…

05 Feb

Centre places purchase order for 5 crore doses of Corbevax Covid vaccine each costing Rs 145 sans tax

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The Centre has placed a purchase order with Biological E for five crore doses of COVID vaccine Corbevax each costing ₹145 excluding taxes, official sources said on Saturday. The government is yet to decide on which segment of beneficiaries this new vaccine would be administered. However, according to sources, discussions are underway in technical groups and in the Health Ministry’s immunisation division about expanding the scope of the precaution doses which are currently being given to healthcare and frontline workers, and comorbid senior citizens. The HLL Lifecare Limited, a public sector undertaking, has issued the supply order of Corbevax to…

04 Feb

Dr Yasin Ali has establishes the occurrence of three rare diseases in a single child

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Dr Yasin Ali, the Chief consultant Child Specialist of Health City Hospital has been able to establish the occurrence of three rare diseases in a single child of 1 month 20 days for the first time in the world. After relentless research work for last 12 months Dr Ali has concluded that this is the first baby in the world to have been affected by three rare diseases at the same time viz. Primary Ciliary Dyskinesia, Noonan's Syndrome and Horse Shoe Kidney. This information has been shared by Dr. Yasin Ali in a press release today in Health City Hospital.…

04 Feb

Opposition spreads rumours against Covid vaccines: Modi

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Prime Minister Narendra Modi accused rival parties of spreading "rumours" against Covid vaccines and thanked people for ignoring them and taking the jabs. Addressing his second virtual rally in poll-bound Uttar Pradesh, Modi said the state witnessed benefits of the "double engine" government in administering Covid jabs. The prime minister said the Union Budget is going to economically benefit farmers and other sections of the society in UP. He lauded Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath for establishing the rule of law in the state by ending the terror of criminals and mafias. The virtual rally covered five districts comprising 23 assembly…

04 Feb

Delhi Schools to Reopen From Monday

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The Delhi Disaster Management Authority (DDMA) has announced the reopening of schools and colleges in the city, owing to the drop in coronavirus cases. Schools will open in a phased manner- with classes 9th-12th reopening from Feb 7 and classes from nursery to 8 from Feb 14. It also announced that the night curfew will be shortened by an hour, from 11 pm to 5 am. Offices will be allowed to function with 100% attendance.All restaurants in Delhi can now remain open till 11pm. Physical classes for nursery to class 8 will resume from February 14. Deputy chief minister Manish…

03 Feb

Guwahati Down Town Hospital brings new Modular Orthopaedic Operation Theatre Complex

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Guwahati Down Town Hospital has come up with a New modern Glass Panel Modular Orthopaedic Operation Theatre Complex, a first of its kind in Assam with dedicated Trauma and Joint Replacement OTs and sophisticated OT table ( MAQUET, Germany) and High end XLED lights . The OT is supported by Ultramodern 4k video Arthroscopy from Arthrex, Germany. The OT was build keeping in consideration the guidelines of NABH & ASHRAE. Renowned artist Zubeen Garg inaugurated the OT complex in the presence of the Dr. N.N.Dutta, Chairman and Managing Director, Dr. B.K Gogoi, Medical Director, Prof. Bandana Dutta,whole Time Director, Mr…

25 Jan

WHO chief warns against assumption that omicron is the ‘endgame’ of the pandemic

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On Monday, the World Health Organization warned public against the Omicron variant of Covid 19, sand said, "it would be dangerous to assume that Omicron will be the last variant or that we're in the endgame". The global health body's statement comes at a time when Omicron has entered 171 countries and is increasing in daily Covid cases. On Sunday, the organization had said that Omicron is soon set to replace Delta globally as a result of its immunity evading potential. It said that Omicron has been found to have a significant growth advantage, higher secondary attack rates, and a…