In Bengaluru, a significant proportion of private hospital beds are lying empty according to a state official. According to a Times News Network (TNN) report, Dr K. Sudhakar – who serves as Minister of Medical Education and Control of COVID-19 in the Health and Family Welfare Department of the Karnataka state government – has reported …
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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 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 …
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; …
In the twelfth edition of PandemiCast, members of the Baird’s CMC family – co-founders Francois Baird and Marta Dourado and shareholder Frederick Fussi – join moderator Mark Chataway to discuss how the coronavirus pandemic has affected businesses. Edited by Iknoor Kaur. You can watch the video here. Watch previous editions of PandemiCast here.
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 …
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 …
Much has been made of how the COVID-19 pandemic affects groups of society differently – and fault lines may be there when it comes to gender and COVID-19 deaths, recent research suggests. More Indian men are diagnosed with COVID-19 and more COVID-19 deaths are reported among men. However, the case fatality rate (CFR) for COVID-19 …
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 …
The Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) has stated that COVID-19 testing is a must for all who display symptoms of the disease. Early on, concerns were raised about the pace of COVID-19 testing in India. Subsequently, authorities sought to step up the rate of testing in the country. As of June 23rd, the ICMR …
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