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Bengaluru’s ‘doctor on wheels’ works 20 hours a day, has treated 250 patients since Covid

Dr Sunil Kumar Hebbi has been running a mobile clinic for 11 years. Since pandemic struck, he works nights at a BBMP Covid clinic, and then drives across Bengaluru to help patients.

A cascade of rare complications is deepening India’s Covid misery

Mucormycosis or black fungus, once considered a rare fungal infection in Covid patients, has emerged as a dramatic bellwether for a raft of secondary ailments in India.

India’s first home kit for Covid test to hit stores next week. Here is how you can use it

Developed by the Pune-based Mylab Discovery Solutions, the testing kits called CoviSelf will be available in chemist shops for Rs 250.

India’s armed forces stave off deadly 2nd Covid wave thanks to vaccines, strict protocols

Nearly 90% of armed forces personnel have been double vaccinated, and now, Army is increasing medical capacity to help civilian administration.

270 doctors died in Covid second wave, says IMA. Number would be higher without vaccines

Doctors say while vaccination helped in preventing mortalities, infection is continuing to spread owing to the nature of their profession.

Dedicated centres for black fungus treatment to be set up at 3 govt hospitals in Delhi

Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal said the centres will be set up at LNJP Hospital, GTB Hospital and Rajiv Gandhi Super Speciality Hospital.

Shouldn’t have gone to Kumbh, ‘Covid-guilty’ mela returnees now say in MP’s Vidisha

From MP, it was Vidisha district that sent highest number of devotees to Kumbh. Many tested positive for Covid on return. Cases surged in MP after people returned from Kumbh.

Modi govt asks states to make mucormycosis a notifiable disease as cases rise across India

The health ministry invokes the Epidemic Diseases Act 1897, urges states to follow guidelines for screening, diagnosis, and management of black fungus.

Aerosols carrying Covid can travel up to 10 meters, ventilation ‘a community defence’ — govt

In a new advisory, office of the Principal Scientific Adviser to govt said measures to improve ventilation in office, homes & larger public spaces should be taken up on urgent priority.

3 UK studies ‘helped’ India decide on wider Covishield dose gap, but none cites 16-week data

A BMJ article from April 2021, a Bristol study and one Scotland research informed NTAGI recommendation to increase Covishield dose gap to 12-16 weeks, says an official.

On Camera

Balding men should know this—there’s an ideal time for a hair transplant

Men have a societal and personal stake in keeping their hair intact and are ready to go to any lengths to keep it. But a hair transplant can’t fix thinning hair. 

Air India reduces baggage allowance by 5-15 kg, bringing it in line with rest of industry

Air India’s new policy, effective from 2 May, introduces new weight limits for tickets in each of the different 'fare families' — Comfort, Comfort Plus, and Flex.

China builds road through Shaksgam Valley, India registers protest

New Delhi has, in past, too, objected to Chinese construction activities in Shaksgam Valley. Work in this strategic region gathered pace after the 2017 Doklam stand-off.

Frontrunner is letting the challenger define this poll campaign. Modi still hasn’t found a big theme

A theme has not yet emerged for BJP & people see lack of a contest, which makes it unexciting. For all these reasons, 2024 is turning out to be an unexpectedly theme-less election.