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Covid-19 spread may spike in monsoon with fall in mercury: IIT-AIIMS study
According to the study,there is a likelihood of an increased transmission of the coronavirus during winter,which may be a major challenge for health workers and policymakers to enforce mitigation and control measures.
COVID crisis: Survey says 55.1% households had only two meals a day
“Women and children are usually the worst affected in any disaster. The COVID-19 crisis is proving to be no different. It is causing cascading damage to poor and vulnerable children — through stretched health services, inadequate medical supplies, higher risk of violence & exploitation, minimal access to education and lower intake of nutritious food stemming from the severe drop in income levels in families,” said Cherian Thomas, Regional Leader, World Vision International, South Asia and Pacific region.
For first time,world records 1million coronavirus cases in 100 hours-Reuters tally
The pandemic has now killed more than 590,000 people in almost seven months, edging towards the upper range of yearly influenza deaths reported worldwide. The first death was reported on Jan. 10 in Wuhan, China before infections and fatalities then surged in Europe and later in the United States.
The Reuters tally, which is based on government reports, shows the disease is accelerating the fastest in the Americas, which account for more than half the world’s infections and half its deaths.
New studies clarify what drugs help, hurt in fight against Covid-19
DEXAMETHASONE reduced deaths by 36% for patients sick enough to need breathing machines: 29% on the drug died versus 41% given usual care. It curbed the risk of death by 18% for patients needing just supplemental oxygen: 23% on the drug died versus 26% of the others.
Mumbai’s Covid-19 recovery rate better than national average: Data
According to the data released by Maharashtra Medical Education and Drugs Department (MEDD) on Friday, the number of active cases in Mumbai was 24,307, while 67,830 patients have recovered from the infection so far.
The Covid-19 recovery rate in Mumbai stood at 50 per cent around mid-June, when the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) launched “Mission Zero” under the Rapid Action Plan to contain coronavirus transmission.
Covid-19 claims from govt authorised make-shift hospitals payble by insurers:IRDAI
In order to ensure that the costs of treatment of COVID – 19 are covered as per the terms and conditions of policy contract, a make-shift or temporary hospital permitted by Central / State government will be also regarded as a hospital or network provider and insurers have to settle the claims, said IRDAI on Thursday.
Russia trying to steal COVID-19 vaccine data, say UK, U.S. and Canada
British foreign minister Dominic Raab said it was “completely unacceptable” for Russian intelligence services to target work on the pandemic.
However,the Kremlin rejected Western allegations Russia had tried to steal COVID-19 vaccine data, Russian news agencies reported.
TASS cited Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov as saying Russia had nothing to do any alleged hacker attacks on pharmaceutical companies and research institutes in Britain.
Russia to mass produce experimental COVID-19 vaccine – wealth fund head
More than 100 possible vaccines are being developed to try to stop the pandemic. At least two are in final Phase III human trials, according to World Health Organization data – one being developed by China’s Sinopharm and the other by AstraZeneca and the University of Oxford.
Novartis to provide ‘no profit’ COVID-19 drugs to low income countries
“We shouldn’t underestimate the stress that COVID puts particularly on fragile health systems,” Hegemann said, adding Novartis hoped to work with health authorities, faith-based organisations and NGOs to eliminate big mark-ups. “We are not targeting classical commercial distribution channels, but very direct channels.”
U.N. aid chief to G20 on coronavirus: ‘Step up now or pay price later’
The United Nations increased its humanitarian appeal by more than a third to $10.3 billion to help 63 states, mainly in Africa and Latin America, tackle the spread and destabilizing effects of the coronavirus. This is up from the world body’s initial $2 billion request in March, then $6.7 billion in May.
So far, Lowcock said, the United Nations has only received $1.7 billion.