COVID-19
After recovering from Corona, is it enough to come back with a negative report? No recovery is needed even after a Covid recovery. This is health recovery. In fact, care is needed after covid recovery . Most patients report weakness as a major problem after covid recovery . It is not easy to get out of this weakness, but for this, many changes related to living have … Read more
The World Health Organization (WHO) has urged African countries not to destroy Covid-19 vaccines that may have passed their expiry date. Countries have been told to keep hold of them and wait for further guidance. The appeal comes after Malawi and South Sudan said they would destroy more than 70,000 doses of the Oxford-AstraZeneca jab … Read more
Israel has recorded no new daily Covid-19 deaths for the first time in 10 months, as the country pushes ahead with its speedy vaccination drive. The country’s coronavirus death toll remained unchanged at 6,346 on Thursday, health ministry data showed. The last time Israel reported zero Covid-19 deaths was at the end of June last … Read more
When maths teacher James Prodger left the UK with his wife and toddler to work in Singapore a couple of years ago, he envisioned a stint abroad peppered with exciting holidays in Southeast Asia and regular trips home to see family. Then, of course, the pandemic put paid to those plans. “Covid-19 really put a … Read more
“Oxygen, oxygen, can you get me oxygen?” I wake up this morning to an anguished phone call from a school teacher, whose 46-year-old husband has been battling Covid-19 in an oxygen-starved Delhi hospital. Here we go again, I tell myself. Just another day of life in a city where breathing has become a luxury for … Read more
The chances of becoming infected by Covid fell sharply after a first dose of either the AstraZeneca or Pfizer vaccines, a UK study has found. The vaccines worked just as well in the over-75s and those with underlying health conditions, as other people. The Office for National Statistics (ONS) and University of Oxford research also … Read more
Indian hospitals say their patients are dying because of a shortage of oxygen as Covid case numbers and deaths set new records for a third day running. India has recorded nearly a million infections in three days, with 346,786 new cases overnight into Saturday. At the Jaipur Golden Hospital in Delhi, 20 people died overnight … Read more
For the fourth day in a row, India has set an unwelcome world record for new coronavirus infections, with 349,691 more cases in the 24 hours to Sunday morning, and another 2,767 lives lost. The BBC’s Vikas Pandey reports from the capital Delhi, where hospitals are overwhelmed and people are desperate. When Ashwin Mittal’s grandmother’s … Read more