“Residents should continue to remain cautious about disease spread because we are still unaware about the incidence rate of different variants and its co-relation with antibody response. Most importantly, the presence of antibodies does not guarantee 100 per cent protection against COVID infection. So as aptly communicated by ICMR, though the results are a ray of hope, there is no room for complacency,” emphasisedDr Rahul Tambe, Senior Consultant, Internal Medicine and Infectious Disease, Nanavati Max Super Speciality, .
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ILS retrocession capacity further squeezed in the Pandemic era
The Best’s Commentary, titled, “The ILS Retro Market, COVID-19 and Pre-Emptive Trapping,” notes that the retro market is estimated at $20 billion, with the ILS market supplying approximately 75-80% of the capacity for this segment.
Assam Cabinet approves Rs 50-lakh insurance cover for journalists, home guards succumbing to COVID-19
The cabinet also decided to increase the upper age limit for state government jobs for Group-III and Group-IV by two years to 40 years.
Indian Vaccine trial: Vital signs of volunteers normal, says doctor
Two men, aged 32 and 48, were given the first shot of the ‘Covishield’ vaccine, being manufactured by Pune-based Serum Institute of India (SII), at Bharti Vidyapeeth’s Medical College and Hospital on Wednesday. The dose will be repeated after one month, an official said.
“Since yesterday, our medical team is in touch with the two volunteers and both are fine. They do not have any pain, fever, injection-side reaction or systemic illness post-vaccination,” the medical college and hospital’s deputy medical director Dr Jitendra Oswal said.
COVID-19 deaths to cross 317,000 in U.S. by December 1
At least 179,725 Americans have died from the respiratory disease, while reported U.S. infections have breached 5.8 million cases, according to a tally by Reuters.
Record 75,760 COVID-19 cases in single day, India’s virus tally crosses 33-lakh mark
With a total of 25,23,771 patients having recuperated so far, the recovery rate was recorded at 76.24 per cent while the COVID-19 case fatality rate has declined to 1.83 per cent
There are 7,25,991 active cases of coronavirus infection in the country which comprises 21.93? per cent of the total caseload, the data stated
Covid-19 disease can affect almost all organs, say experts at AIIMS
“What started off as a viral pneumonia is now a multi-systemic disease. However, the jury is out whether SARS-COV2 is the culprit in these extra pulmonary manifestations or just an innocent bystander which happens to be at the wrongplace at a wrong time,”DrNischalsaid.
“So the classification of COVID-19 into mild, moderateand severe cases based only on respiratorysymptoms should be relooked into to incorporate other organ involvement,” he said.
SC asks Centre to clarify stand on interest waiver during moratorium
A bench headed by Justice Ashok Bhushan said the Centre had not made its stand clear on the issue despite the fact that ample powers were available with it under the Disaster Management Act and was “hiding behind the RBI”.
Global protection gap for mortality, health and natural cat reach a new high of $1.24 trillion:Swiss Re
Globally, mortality resilience declined the most, driven by a widening of the mortality protection gap in the Asia-Pacific region, where China’s protection gap expanded due to rapidly growing household debt
Health resilience was stable despite some deterioration in emerging markets.
The global health protection gap widened by more than 5% to USD 588 billion.Natural catastrophe resilience was lowest of the three risk areas. Swiss Re Institute expects that health and mortality protection gaps will widen as households grapple with lower incomes, higher healthcare costs and the financial consequences of losing a breadwinner as a result of the pandemic.
Coronavirus most prevalent among those aged between 5 and 17: Sero survey
Dr Mahesh Verma, the head of a Delhi government committee tasked with strengthening the preparedness of hospitals to battle coronavirus, said, “It is difficult to keep children and youngsters home-bound. Even if they are not going to school, they might be going out to play… or they might have contracted it through an indirect route. But it’s just a prediction and needs to be studied.”
Coronavirus re-infections raise concerns about immunity
The cases, in Belgium and the Netherlands, follow a report this week by researchers in Hong Kong about a man there who had been re-infected with a different strain of the virus four and a half months after being declared recovered – the first such re-infection to be documented.
That has fuelled fears about the effectiveness of potential vaccines against the virus, which has killed hundreds of thousands of people, though experts say there would need to be many more cases of re-infection for these to be justified.