India Coronavirus Dispatch: Southern states drive Covid growth

Broader effects of Covid on human body, Kerala's plan to manage community transfer, and ensuring every citizen gets the vaccine when it is ready-how India is dealing with the pandemic

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The central government has written to West Bengal, flagging the rising number of Covid-19 cases in some districts and high fatalities in the under-50 age group

Sarah Farooqui New Delhi

5 min read Last Updated : Jul 19 2020 | 2:32 PM IST

High BP, Diabetes, Obesity make Indians prone to worst Covid-19 outcomes: “Extra-pulmonary manifestations” is the term that describes the effects Covid-19 is having on the body beyond the lungs and the respiratory tract. There has been a comprehensive study on this led by Aakirti Gupta, Interventional Cardiology Fellow at the Columbia University, Donald Landry, chair of medicine at the Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons, along with Mahesh Madhavan, fellow and researcher at Columbia, and Kartik Sehgal, a fellow at Harvard Medical School in Boston. Read this interview with Gupta, Madhavan and Sehgal to find

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