Tag Archives: COVID-19

MUMBAI: The civic claim that there is no post-Diwali spike in Covid cases in the city was given a boost when, despite 17,801 Covid-19 tests, the highest conducted in one day in Mumbai so far, only 6% of the tests were positive. . However, BMC officials admitted that “pockets” of …

Assam’s Health Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said Gogoi’s condition deteriorated Saturday afternoon with trouble breathing, after which doctors started an intubation ventilator. “Doctors are doing everything possible to revive their organs with drugs and other medical methods. Doctors will also try dialysis, ”said the Health Minister, adding that the next …

The United States surpassed 12 million Covid-19 cases on Saturday, according to the Johns Hopkins University real-time tracker. The world’s largest economy currently has 12,019,960 cases and 255,414 deaths, both by far the worst global tolls. The new number comes just six days after the US crossed the threshold of …

The US Food and Drug Administration on Saturday issued an emergency use authorization for Regeneron Pharmaceuticals Inc’s COVID-19 antibody therapy, an experimental treatment administered to US President Donald Trump, which said which helped cure him of the disease. “Licensing these monoclonal antibody therapies can help outpatients avoid hospitalization and ease …

Moderna will charge governments between $ 25 and $ 37 per dose of its Covid-19 candidate vaccine, depending on the quantity requested, Chief Executive Stephane Bancel told the German weekly Welt am Sonntag (WamS). “So our vaccine costs about the same as a flu shot, which is between $ 10 …

Witnessing a sudden spike in coronavirus cases, the Rajasthan government decided on Saturday to impose a nightly curfew on the eight worst affected districts and a 500 rupee fine on those who do not wear masks. Rajasthan recorded the highest number of positive Covid-19 cases in a single day on …

NEW DELHI: Covid-19 patients can shed fragments of the virus that causes infection for up to 83 days in their respiratory or stool samples, but they are unlikely to be infectious for that long. According to a study published in The Lancet Microbe, one of the world’s leading medical journals, …

Unilever, a major global consumer goods company, said on Saturday it will bring its mouthwash formula to India, which it claims will reduce 99.9% of the coronavirus after 30 seconds of rinsing. Unilever, a global consumer goods major, said on Saturday that it will bring its mouthwash formulation to India, …

An Indian-American scientist has discovered a potential strategy to prevent life-threatening inflammation, lung damage, and organ failure in patients diagnosed with COVID-19. Published online in the journal Cell, research from the laboratory of Dr. Thirumala-Devi Kanneganti, an Indian-born researcher working at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital in Tennessee, identified the …

The Union Ministry of Health has advised Union states and territories to conduct more COVID-19 testing to track undetected and missing patients. In an order issued Friday, the Ministry recommended that they adopt an aggressive and widespread testing strategy for rapid detection of infection for effective tracing, containment and treatment. …