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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
While global corporations setting up GCCs in India continue to express confidence in availability of skilled AI engineers, the panel argued that India’s real challenge lies elsewhere.
Taylor ‘Fema’ Hiester, commander of USAF F-16 Viper Demo Team, hit out at air show organisers for continuing with the show after Wing Commander Namansh Syal lost his life in the incident.
It is a brilliant, reasonably priced, and mostly homemade aircraft with a stellar safety record; only two crashes in 24 years since its first flight. But its crash is a moment of introspection.
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