Union Health Minister Dr Harsh Vardhan has touted India’s fight against COVID-19, claiming the country to have performed better than the world’s more economically-developed countries. As reported by the Press Information Bureau, Vardhan “interacted with the State Health Ministers and Principal Secretaries / Additional Chief Secretaries of nine states. These states included Andhra Pradesh, Assam, …
Masks have become a common sight in India over the last year. As the country enters peak smog season — witnessing heightened levels of air pollution — the masks now serve a dual purpose. According to the Central Pollution Control Board’s air quality index (AQI) — consisting of a rating system from one to 500 …
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The All India Institute for Ayurveda (AIIA) has endorsed the use of alternative medicine treatments for mild cases of COVID-19. The Delhi-based Institute claimed that Ayurvedic medicaments are useful if administered to individuals who present with moderate symptoms of the disease caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) or, simply, coronavirus. Claims are …
Convalescent plasma therapy has shown no significant improvement in the treatment of patients hospitalised with COVID-19, according to a new study conducted in India. The study, funded by the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) and published in the British Medical Journal enrolled 464 adult patients, with an average age of 52. The individuals were …
As of Friday, October 23rd, which saw 54,366 new cases and 690 deaths from COVID-19, India’s total COVID-19 count reached 7,761,312 according to Union Health Ministry data. These numbers, while still alarmingly high, show a significant and sustained drop compared to daily figures from mid-September. India’s daily cases peaked at close to 100,000 in mid-September. …
India could have multiple COVID-19 vaccines available for distribution by early next year. Given the rate of increase in cases of the virus, will India’s health infrastructure be able to roll out the vaccine across the country in sufficient doses to make an impact? “We’re expecting that early next year, we should have vaccine in …
COVID-19, after the many months of its practically all-consuming effects across the planet, is too often still viewed as a disease only dangerous to the elderly or those with underlying conditions. Put simply, this is not the case. More than six in every ten people (62.5 percent) hospitalised due to COVID-19 in India are below …
India is making progress against the COVID-19 pandemic. Active cases continue to fall since the peaks in newly arising cases in mid-September. However, complacency could mean disaster. It must be stressed: the pandemic is far from over. According to Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare data updated on Friday India saw a single-day …
A vast study has taken place analysing the transmission patterns for COVID-19 in India. In the largest study on the disease in India so far, researchers tested more than a half-million contacts of 85,000 cases to examine transmission patterns with the hopes of finding more effective means of curbing the progression of the disease through …
Union Minister of Health and Family Welfare Dr Harsh Vardhan has pledged that a vaccination campaign against the novel coronavirus that causes COVID-19 will cover more than 25 crore Indians by July 2021. Since the pandemic began, a vaccine has been touted as a pancaea. As previously reported by Health Issues India “The point at …
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