TopicCovid-19 treatment

Topic: Covid-19 treatment

Why Kerala is seeing a second Covid surge just months after cases peaked in October

Angana Chakrabarti - 7 January, 2021

Kerala witnessed its first peak in mid-October when positivity rate increased to over 15%. Between 27 December and 3 January, positivity rate was 9.6% as against the national average of 5.8%.

70 lakh healthcare workers to receive Covid vaccine first, govt to use ‘poll booth strategy’

Himani Chandna - 31 December, 2020

Government has asked states to identify specific days for vaccination, adequate number of potential vaccinators and other support staff.

19 SARS-CoV-2 mutations in India can evade antibodies, 1 causes reinfection — CSIR study

Mohana Basu - 28 December, 2020

Study suggests that N501Y, the ‘highly infectious’ Covid mutation found in UK, is present in Australia, South Africa, USA, Denmark & Brazil, and advises screening travellers from here.

CSIR plans clinical trials of antiviral Molnupiravir that is said to block Covid transmission

Mohana Basu - 9 December, 2020

A recent study at Georgia State University in US found that Molnupiravir can completely suppress SARS-CoV-2 transmission in ferrets within 24 hours.

Monitor efficacy of Itolizumab, not just safety, in Covid trials — expert panel tells Biocon

Himani Chandna - 6 December, 2020

Govt's expert panel, that advises the apex drug regulator, has asked Biocon to submit a revised proposal for phase 4 trials of Itolizumab, which already has emergency use approval.

Delhi gets tough with enforcing Covid home isolation, over 70 FIRs registered so far

Aneesha Bedi - 4 December, 2020

Several people are also being moved to Covid-19 care or quarantine centres and issued strict warnings to prevent them from turning ‘super-spreaders’.

Former Assam CM Tarun Gogoi’s condition extremely critical, say doctors

PTI - 23 November, 2020

Gogoi, who was undergoing treatment for post Covid complications, suffered a multi-organ failure, and was on dialysis Sunday.

Covid patients shed viral RNA for upto 83 days but are infectious for about 9 — Lancet report

Abantika Ghosh - 20 November, 2020

Researchers from UK and Italy wrote in The Lancet Microbe journal it is important to quickly isolate patients as they are most infectious in the first week of their illness.

Doctors work 14-hr shift, handle double workload as Delhi hospitals battle staff crunch

Aneesha Bedi - 19 November, 2020

From Delhi govt’s GTB Hospital & Rajiv Gandhi Super Specialty Hospital, to central govt’s Lady Hardinge, a similar resource crunch appears to be at play everywhere.