A minister’s claim that no deaths due to medical oxygen shortages have been reported by the states has sparked a firestorm, with criticism pouring in. Bharati Pravin Pawar, a minister of state in the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, told the Rajya Sabha that “health is a state subject. All states / UTs …
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Excess mortality during the COVID-19 pandemic could be ten times higher than the official numbers, research claims – but the Government has defended its figures. A recent study carried out by the Center for Global Development estimated that excess mortality between January 2020 and June 2021 could be between three million and 4.7 million. This …
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The COVID-19 pandemic cost at least seventeen million children routine vaccinations, recent research from The Lancet shows. According to the research, “routine immunisation services faced stark challenges in 2020, with the COVID-19 pandemic causing the most widespread and largest global disruption in recent history.” Senior author and Assistant Professor from the Institute for Health Metrics …
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One child loses their caregiver to the pandemic every twelve seconds. This is according to a recent Lancet study which has spotlighted one of the most harrowing effects of the pandemic: ‘COVID orphans’. “Globally, from March 1, 2020, to April 30, 2021,” the study states, “we estimate 1,134,000 children (95 percent credible interval 884,000–1,185,000) experienced …
The fourth national serosurvey carried out by the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) indicates that more than two-thirds of India’s population have developed antibodies against COVID-19. Conducted between June and July of 2021, the survey’s findings found 67.6 percent of the country’s 1.3 billion people presented with antibodies. This marks a substantial increase from …
Many questions have thus far been left unanswered regarding the COVID-19 pandemic. Foremost among these is the question of how will so-called ‘long COVID’ affect us in the future? There remain many unanswered questions. How many individuals have been affected by the disease and remained asymptomatic is all but unknown, as is the length of …
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Zoonotic diseases have been at the forefront of media attention since COVID-19 began to spread in late 2019. Yet another disease has been reported to have taken a human life in China — the Monkey B virus. A 53-year-old man who contracted the virus in March of this year is reportedly the first to die …
There is no evidence to indicate a rise in tuberculosis (TB) cases due to the COVID-19 pandemic according to the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare. However, they do suggest that COVID-19 patients may be more susceptible to contracting TB and, as such, surveillance efforts ought to be scaled up. “Due to the impact …
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A recent study published in The Lancet revealed that India’s rate of neurological disorders have more than doubled in just the last 29 years. The study reveals strokes to be one of the most common causes of death in the country, accounting for 699,000 deaths, amounting to 7.4 percent of the total deaths in the …
New research published in The Lancet indicates that alcohol consumption was linked to more than 741,000 new cancer cases in 2020. The study, which “[presents] global, regional, and national estimates of alcohol-attributable cancer burden in 2020 to inform alcohol policy and cancer control across different settings globally”, estimated that 741,300 new cancer cases in 2020 …
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