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Covid-19 triggering panic attacks, depression and suicides, say experts
Nervousness, fear of contamination, panic attacks, constant reassurance-seeking behaviour, sleep disturbance, excessive worry, feelings of helplessness and the probability of an economic slowdown are the major factors leading to depression and anxiety among the people, they add.
Potential job losses, financial burden, uncertainty about the future and fears of running out of food and necessities add to the worries.
Online platforms too have seen a growing number of people seeking help for mental health issues, ranging from anxiety and loneliness to concerns over productivity and job loss since the outbreak of Covid-19.
UK pharma firm AstraZeneca most advanced In COVID-19 vaccine race: WHO
The British drugmaker has already begun large-scale, mid-stage human trials of the vaccine, which was developed by researchers at University of Oxford.
WHO chief scientist Soumya Swaminathan said Moderna’s Covid-19 vaccine candidate was “not far behind” AstraZeneca’s, among more than 200 candidates, 15 of which have entered clinical trials.
Health Ministry adds steroid dexamethasone in Covid-19 treatment protocol
For patients having respiratory distress requiring mechanical ventilation, both non- invasive and invasive, the ministry said methylprednisolone 1 2mg/kg/day or dexamethasone 0.2 to 0.4 mg/kg per day should be considered for 5-7 days in two divided doses, if not given already.
IMF warns markets at risk of correction after run-up
A correction could be prompted by a deeper and longer recession than currently anticipated, a second wave of the virus or reinstated containment methods. A broadening of global social unrest in response to rising economic inequality could also damage investor sentiment, the IMF said.
“We worry about scarring in the economy, meaning the crisis might be longer than expected and deeper than expected,” said Adrian. “Scarring is due to the high level of unemployment and the potential for insolvency. These are difficult to reverse.”
India registers over 17,000 COVID-19 daily cases for first time; death toll crosses 15,000-mark
India registered over 14,000 cases for the seventh day in a row and witnessed a surge of 2,99,866 infections from June 1 till 26.
“Around 58.24 per cent patients have recovered so far,” an official said
US health officials estimate 20M Americans have had virus
Thursday’s estimate is roughly 10 times as many infections as the 2.3 million cases that have been confirmed. Officials have long known that millions of people were infected without knowing it and that many cases are being missed because of gaps in testing.
10th Ebola outbreak in Congo declared over by WHO
As countries around the world face the COVID-19 pandemic, the DRC Ebola response provides valuable lessons. Many of the public health measures that have been successful in stopping Ebola are the same measures that are now essential for stopping COVID-19: finding, isolating, testing, and caring for every case and relentless contact tracing.
IMF chief Georgieva says coronavirus crisis could ultimately test $1 trillion war chest
The IMF on Tuesday forecast a deeper global recession than initially anticipated, as business closures, travel restrictions and social distancing measures persist in most countries. It now anticipates a global GDP contraction of 4.9% this year and a total output loss of $12 trillion through the end of 2021
IRDA finalises short-term standard Covid-19 policies,asks insurers to launch them by July 10
To be mandatorily termed as “Corona Rakshak Policy’’ it has been made mandatory for all the general insurers and exclusive health insurers, while life insurers have been encouraged to launch such products(benefit based) .
The benefit based policies, to be launched by a life insurers, will have a minimum sum insured of Rs50,000 and a maximum limit of Rs.2,50,000 (in the multiples of fifty thousand).For the standard covid indemnity policies, to be launched by the domestic general insurers and exclusive health insurers, the maximum sum assured can be Rs 5 Lakh (in the multiples of fifty thousand)
Both COVID Standard benefit based health policy and indemnity based health policies should be offered with a policy term of three and half months (3 ½ months), six and half months (6 ½ months) and nine and half months (9 ½ months) i.e,105 days,195 days and 285 days respectively, clarified IRDA..
Trump administration asks Supreme court to invalidate Affordable Care Act
Thursday’s report from the government showed that about 487,000 people signed up with HealthCare.gov after losing their workplace coverage this year. That’s an increase of 46% from the same time period last year.