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TopicComorbidities

Topic: Comorbidities

TB now officially a Covid comorbidity, disease compromises lungs that virus also targets

The latest clinical management guidelines, released Monday, include seven categories of people who are at 'high risk' of severe Covid or mortality because of it. These include TB patients.

70% Covid patients who died in Delhi from 9 to 12 January were unvaccinated, govt data shows

Report aggregates data on 97 Covid deaths shared by 7 private & govt hospitals in Delhi. Among those partially or fully vaccinated, deaths primarily attributed to comorbidities. 

From Goa to Maharashtra, what Covid deaths say about states’ non-communicable disease burden

Data suggests Covid-19 may have killed 1 in every 500 people in Goa, and 1 in every 1,000 in Kerala, Maharashtra, Delhi & Puducherry. Number is 1 in 10,000 for UP, Bihar & 5 other states.

Doctors alarmed by ‘strange’ new ICMR rule that makes Covid test optional for hospital patients

New ICMR testing strategy, notified Monday, comes as Covid infections among doctors soar. In Delhi alone, 750 doctors at six major hospitals are reportedly infected with Covid.

Not just disease severity, 2 vaccine doses can also reduce impact of long Covid: Israeli study

Researchers find people vaccinated with at least two doses are less likely to suffer from long-term effects of Covid. Beneficial effect is more pronounced in the elderly.

Over-60s with comorbidities don’t need certificate for ‘precaution dose’ of Covid vaccine: Govt

Healthcare workers, frontline workers and people above the age of 60 with comorbidities will be eligible to get a third dose of the Covid-19 vaccine from 10 January 2022. 

Are you above 45? Here are the 20 comorbidities that qualify you for Covid vaccine

Govt has said people aged above 60 years & those above 45 years with comorbidities will be inoculated in the phase 2 of immunisation drive, which will start from 1 March.

On Camera

Bodoland poll loss a wake-up call for Assam BJP. Zubeen’s death puts CM Sarma in a tight spot

Assam CM can’t celebrate that the Congress drew a blank in the Bodoland Territorial Council polls in 2010 as well as 2015, and bagged only one in 2020.

Market regulator SEBI clears Adani Group of impropriety alleged by Hindenburg Research

SEBI probe concluded that purported loans and fund transfers were paid back in full and did not amount to deceptive market practices or unreported related party transactions.

Aerial warfare analyst Tom Cooper faults India’s military PR, says Pakistan does it better

In post on social media, Cooper narrated experience of MiG-21 researcher from Germany who wanted to attend aircraft’s farewell ceremony in India, and the roadblocks he faced. 

Something’s hidden in the Oval Office photo of Trump, Munir, Sharif. India must look closely

What Munir has achieved with Trump is a return to normal, ironing out the post-Abbottabad crease. The White House picture gives us insight into how Pakistan survives, occasionally thrives and thinks.