Jaffer Bhai Mansuri (83), affectionately known as King Biryani of Mumbai, passed away on Thursday due to cardiac arrest at Breach Candy Hospital. He was being treated for Covid-19. “They took him to Breach Candy last week. But his oxygen saturation dropped and he was switched to a ventilator on …
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Covaxin, India’s first homegrown attempt to fight the pandemic, has undergone rapid testing and is now in the midst of medium-scale testing. According to experts, if all goes well, the deadline for vaccine delivery could be sped up even further and India could see millions of doses ready by early …
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WASHINGTON: North Korean authorities have issued shoot-to-kill orders to prevent the coronavirus from entering the country from China, according to the commander of US forces in the south. The impoverished North, whose health system in shambles would struggle to cope with a major virus outbreak, has not confirmed a single …
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The benchmark indices slid into the red zone after giving up their modest opening gains in the volatile session on Friday. The S&P BSE Sensex hovered around 38,760 points after falling around 150 points from the opening highs. The Nifty50 index also dropped the 11,450 mark. Titan, HDFC Bank, Kotak …
Read More »India likely had 6.4 million Covid cases in May, says ICMR’s Sero survey
The survey also showed that by May-June, the infection had already spread to rural areas of India. (Representative) New Delhi: India may have had 6.4 million coronavirus cases in May, indicates the first national sero-survey conducted by the leading medical body ICMR. The survey, published in the Indian Journal of …
Read More »6.4 million Covid-19 cases were estimated in India in early May, according to the first report of the national serosurvey
6.4 million or more than 64 lakhs of Covid-19 cases were estimated in India in early May, the long-awaited results of the country’s first national serosurvey conducted by the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) in the Indian Journal of Medical Research. , said. The survey report said that 0.73% …
Read More »Viral post claims 3 MP Covid death due to lack of oxygen, probe reveals truth – bhopal
Even as the Madhya Pradesh government is trying to restore Maharashtra’s oxygen supply, a post on social media stating that at least three Covid patients had died in the hospital of a private medical school due to lack of oxygen in Dewas district, 153 kilometers southwest of Bhopal. – went …
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The United States has seen two spikes in the number of Covid-19 cases; Europe is starting to see its second wave, apparently bigger than the first (in terms of daily cases) in France and Spain, but smaller in Germany, Italy and the UK. India continues to experience a strong and …
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File photo of a doctor holding a bag of blood plasma donated by a COVID-19 survivor. (AP Photo / Juan Karita) Delhi and Maharashtra have established plasma banks in the state and, alongside these states, the therapy has also been used in moderately ill patients in Haryana. News18.com Last update: …
Read More »India nears grim milestone in Covid-19 cases
India added 99,181 cases of the coronavirus disease (Covid-19) on Thursday as it continued to set new world records for daily cases, gradually approaching the grim threshold of 100,000 cases in one day. The total number of cases in the country reached 4,559,710, data compiled by HT from all states …
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