In mid-May, a man in his forties approached a psychiatrist after a suggestion from his physician. His primary complaint was sleeplessness. Probing further, the psychiatrist got to know that the man had tested positive for Covid-19 and had spent seven days in hospital.
Health experts have called for strong surveillance on four emerging coronavirus variants, apart from the Delta-plus (B.1.617.2.1 or AY.1) strain, which has already been designated as a variant of concern (VOC).The variants to be watched out for includes B.1.617.
A report in the New York Times has suggested that India’s actual toll from Covid could be about double the official count in an optimistic case scenario and up to nearly 14 times the recorded numbers in a worstcase scenario.
In a report issued Monday, the panel led by former Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf and former New Zealand Prime Minister Helen Clark said there were "lost opportunities to apply basic public health measures at the earliest opportunity" and that Chinese authorities could have applied their efforts "more forcefully" in January shortly after the coronavirus began sickening clusters of people.
Experts stressed that all flu-like symptoms — fever, headache, body ache, tiredness and chills — were adverse reactions or side effects of a vaccine if they happened within 48 hours of the vaccination and they resolved on their own.
"I would be inclined to set the expectations of a conclusion very low for this visit," Dr. Dale Fisher, chair of the Global Outbreak Alert & Response Network coordinated by the WHO, said in an interview on Monday at the Reuters Next conference.
Maharashtra reported 3,940 new Covid-19 cases on Saturday, taking the state tally to 18,92,707. It also reported 74 deaths due to the pandemic, taking the death toll to 48,648.
On the streets of Moscow, some Russians said they would be too scared to try the vaccine, while others agreed with their government that scepticism expressed by foreign experts was driven by jealousy.
Dengue haemorrhagic fever (DHF) and dengue shock syndrome can emerge as a major health concern in Kerala if there is yet another dengue outbreak in the state, say experts.
The Kolkata woman who has sought an abortion at 24 weeks is not an exception, since more than 50 such cases — including one in the city
S Narayanan, member secretary, Haryana Pollution Control and T C Nautiyal, member secretary, Chandigarh Pollution Control Committee led the discussion on air quality policies and implementation.
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