Page 10 - Communicable Diseases

650,000 medical kits to fight Covid-19 dispatched from China: Indian envoy

Two major consignments of the medical kits were reported to have been sent to India from China earlier as part of the efforts to step up testing especially in hotspots during the ongoing lockdown in t

Experts say up to 15% Covid-19 patients may also suffer kidney damage

Continuous Renal Replacement Therapy (CRRT) a term used for a collection of acute dialysis techniques can support these patients for 24 hours in a day

Lockdown: UP to restart work on key expressways, non-Covid emergency care

Construction agencies will follow social distancing and sanitisation norms working on expressways; healthcare staff at hospitals to be trained to protect themselves from coronavirus

ADB triples financial aid for members to $20 billion to fight virus

The Asian Development Bank said it has also approved measures to streamline its operations for quicker and more flexible delivery of assistance

Covid-19 factoid: Alarm bells ring as India adds 1,500 cases in a day

Country's death toll consistently rising too, taking just two days to add the last 50 fatalities to the total.

Covid-19 Factoid: Just 3 states account for half of new India cases in Apr

While North America and Europe account for the bulk of all coronavirus cases globally, half of new cases reported in India have come from Delhi, Maharashtra and Tamil Nadu alone

Coronavirus: J&K cases cross 200-mark with 23 fresh detections

There are 197 active cases at present in the union territory

Covid-19 Factoid: Pain and recovery as cases set to cross 1.5 mn mark

Germany, where 40 per cent of all infected persons are recovering, is doing the best by that metric among the five worst-affected nations

Centre okays Rs 15,000 cr fully funded emergency health package for states

The project named 'India COVID-19 Emergency Response and Health System Preparedness Package' will be implemented in three phases

SC asks govt approved, pvt labs to conduct Covid-19 tests for free

The top court issued orders on a PIL seeking a direction to the Centre and authorities to provide free of cost testing facility for Covid-19 to all citizens in the country

Flight curbs will be lifted once Covid-19 is under control, says Puri

India has imposed a 21-day lockdown from March 25 to curb the coronavirus pandemic

Coronavirus: UP govt clamps down upon black marketers, 163 FIRs lodged

Entire stock hoarded by black marketers will be seized; accused cannot engage in trading in future, says UP government official

Covid-19 Factoid: Rapid rise in new cases globally, but S Korea gets a grip

Number of days taken to add 200,000 fresh cases to the global tally as well as the time taken to add 10,000 Covid-19 casualties is rapidly shortening.

Bharat Biotech joins global efforts in developing coronavirus vaccine

CoroFlu will build on the backbone of vaccine firm FluGen's flu vaccine candidate, a self-limiting version of the influenza virus that induces an immune response against the flu.

FinMin releases Rs 17,287 cr to states to fight coronavirus pandemic

This includes Rs 6,195.08 crore on account of 'revenue deficit grant' under 15th Finance Commission recommendations to 14 states

Covid-19 Factoid: Gap between daily new cases and recoveries widening

The world is adding over 70,000 cases everyday while the daily recoveries are still sub-15,000 on an average in the last three days.

Covid-19 Factoid: Over 3,000 dying daily, and three other data trends

The US, Italy and Spain together share almost half the total Covid-19 cases across the globe

Coronavirus: India death toll rises to 38, 1,637 positive cases so far

132 people were either cured or discharged and one had migrated to another country, shows the Health Ministry data

Covid-19 Factoid: France and Iran face similar fight, Germany stands out

Around 20 cases are being registered and at least two people are losing their lives almost every minute due to coronavirus across the globe.

Will heat, humidity slow down coronavirus outbreak? What experts say

All five studies that have come out between March 10 and March 23 have analysed COVID-19's relation with temperature and humidity in China and in other countries with high number of cases