The global average of out-of-pocket healthcare cost is 18.2 per cent, but in India, the number is 62.7 per cent. Don’t forget the decades of underinvestment in health.
The number of people who have recovered from Covid-19 has surged to 1,83,17,404, according to health ministry data released Sunday. Fatality rate recorded at 1.09%.
Doctors find increasing instances of mucormycosis & aspergillosis — both caused by fungi — and loss of vision from glaucoma, in Covid patients on prolonged or high-dose use of steroids.
Local artists will put on folk performances & plays to underline importance of masking, social distancing, vaccinating apart from urging people to limit social & religious gatherings.
One open-air crematorium was opened two weeks back to take the burden off existing crematoria, and now the Karnataka government has identified land for 22 more.
According to health ministry data, active Covid cases have touched 34,87,229 comprising 16.87% of the total infections, while the national recovery rate was recorded at 82.03%.
The national capital recorded 338 Covid deaths with a positivity rate below 30 percent, according to the daily health bulletin issued by Delhi health department Wednesday morning.
From 8 May to 30 May, group gatherings must be cut from a maximum of 8 to 5, while daily visitors per household will be similarly capped, Singapore's Health Ministry said Tuesday.
The announcement came after SRH wicketkeeper Wriddhiman Saha tested positive. CSK bowling coach L Balaji and KKR bowlers Varun Chakravarthy & Sandeep Warrier had tested positive Monday.
An Indian Hitler will have to be exceptionally lucky to survive for any length of time. This much hope ought to be enough for seekers of liberty and equality, wrote Sharad Anantrao Joshi, president of Swatantra Bharat Paksh party, in 1995.
A public meeting, where the women voiced their protest, took place this month in Delhi, grounded on the findings of an AIDWA survey, covering 9,000 women borrowers.
Joint submarine patrol ‘covered more than 2,000 nautical miles’ and was joined by Russian support vessels. Beijing maintains exercise ‘not directed against any third party’.
From Munir’s point of view, a few bumps here and there is par for the course. He isn’t going to drive his dumper truck to its doom. He wants to use it as a weapon.
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