India’s situation regarding COVID-19 is becoming ever more dire by the day. Among the consequences of the pandemic are an already substantial list of healthcare issues being sidelined even as they push India’s healthcare system to its limit. In another development that carries grim portents for public health, China has recently announced that bubonic plague […]
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India global third for COVID-19 cases
India’s COVID-19 situation continues to escalate, as the country now has the third highest number of cases globally. Figures now exceed 700,000, with numbers near or exceeding 20,000 new cases per day now being the new norm. Weeks of ever-increasing daily figures have seen India climb the ranks of most affected nations in just a […]
20,000 cases per day, COVID-19 out of control?
India’s COVID-19 situation continues to escalate, with numbers near or exceeding 20,000 new cases per day now being the new norm. The prospect of COVID-19 becoming all but uncontrollable in India is becoming ever more plausible. India’s COVID curve is rising at an ever increasing rate with no signs of abating. This upwards curve would […]
Fewer non-COVID-19 diseases recorded?
Fewer non-COVID disease alerts were recorded at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic in India. This is according to information on weekly outbreaks available on the website of the Integrated Disease Surveillance Programme (IDSP), a Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare body. While initially this would be thought to be associated with the […]
India passes 600,000 COVID-19 cases
By Thursday, July 2nd, India registered 6,04,641 cases of COVID-19 after 19,148 new cases were reported over the preceding 24 hours. 434 people died over this same time period, pushing the death toll up to 17,834. Of the 434 COVID-19 deaths reported over the 24-hour period, 198 were from Maharashtra; 63 from Tamil Nadu; […]
Slumdog Millionaire slum’s COVID-19 progress
Dharavi, a slum area of India’s financial capital of Mumbai, is home to more than one million people. April saw the densely-populated square-mile area experience a high number of COVID-19 cases. Understandably, given its large population and living conditions which hamper efforts to physically distance, it was expected that the situation would rapidly deteriorate. This […]
Could half of India contract COVID-19?
Half of India, or 670 million people in India could contract COVID-19. This alarming claim comes from Dr Jayaprakash Muliyil, former principal of the Christian Medical College in Vellore and chairman of the Scientific Advisory Committee of the National Institute of Epidemiology. In a 37-minute interview with Karan Thapar for The Wire, Dr Muliyil said […]
COVID-19 and the monsoon season
COVID-19 cases across the globe now number in excess of nine million. India’s situation is bleak, with more than 15,000 cases added per day consistently — now taking its place as the fourth most-affected country. Could monsoon season add to India’s already dire situation? It had been speculated that the hot weather of the […]
Critical COVID-19: Bad news for heart health
Critical cases of COVID-19, warranting admission to the intensive care unit (ICU), could pose a danger to heart health. Patients admitted to the ICU with COVID-19 – the disease caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) or, simply, the coronavirus – are ten times more likely to develop heart health complications such as […]
Patanjali Ayurved claims to find the cure for COVID – but lands in hot water
Patanjali Ayurved, a firm based in Haridwar, Uttarakhand, has claimed success with an Ayurvedic medicine for the treatment of COVID-19 – but its claims have landed it in hot water with the Union Government. The company launched ‘Coronil and Swasari’ yesterday, purporting the treatment to have a 100 percent success rate in curing COVID-19 (the […]