Coronavirus March 21 Latest Health News: Baba Ramdev's yoga asanas to immunity building exercises

Coronavirus March 20 Latest Health News: Baba Ramdev's yoga asanas to immunity building exercises

The novel coronavirus or COVID-19 that originated in China's Wuhan city in December last year has spread onto 145 countries and has killed over 10, 000 people all over the world. It has been termed as a global pandemic by the World Health Organization (who) after it spread onto different countries like wildfire. People all over the world have gone into self-quarantine and have been advising everyone to go into self isolation to protect themselves from the deadly virus. It is important to take all the preventive measures to ensure good health. Here are the health updates from all around the globe related to the disease that you need to be aware of.

Coronavirus health updates March 21

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Mar 21, 2020 4:46 PM (IST) Posted by Shalu Singh

Lucknow's Homeopath doctor distributes free medicines suggested by Ministry of AYUSH

Lucknow's Homeopath doctor, Dr R B Singh is giving free medicines to people. These medicines suggested by Ministry of AYUSH is for boosting the immunity.
Mar 21, 2020 4:37 PM (IST) Posted by Shalu Singh

Asia’s richest man, Jack Ma to help the continent amid coronavirus crisis

Asia’s richest man, Jack Ma, founder of Alibaba, to donate essential supplies to 10 countries in the continent. His firm will distribute 1.8 million face masks and 210,000 coronavirus test kits to some of the continent’s poorest nations.
Mar 21, 2020 2:38 PM (IST) Posted by Parina Taneja

Can pets at home spread COVID 19?

Ministery of Health bursts myths about pets spreading COVID 19 at home.
Mar 21, 2020 12:48 PM (IST) Posted by Parina Taneja

Revised strategy for coronavirus testing in India

As per the new policy all hospitalized patients with severe acute respiratory illness, shortness of breath and having fever and cough will now be tested for COVID-19 infection. The apex body for biomedical research revised its strategy because of a spurt in coronavirus cases in the country this week. The new guidelines also said asymptomatic direct and high-risk contacts of a confirmed case should be tested once between day 5 and day 14 of coming in his/her contact.

The new strategy aims to contain the spread of infection more effectively and to provide a reliable diagnosis to all individuals meeting the inclusion criteria of COVID-19 testing. Till now, all asymptomatic individuals who undertook international travel in the last 14 days and developed symptoms, all symptomatic contacts of laboratory-confirmed cases and all symptomatic health care workers were being tested for the infection as per the guidelines.
Mar 21, 2020 11:13 AM (IST) Posted by Parina Taneja

Old People Should Follow These tips

For people above age 60, Baba Ramdev advises to eat salad and raw food first and then consume cooked food for better immunity. He also says that herbal tea and pranayama are very useful for old people. Going by the death toll in the world, the majority of the deaths due to coronavirus have been of the people who are in old-age. Baba Ramdev's advice to old people is to consume less spicy food and eat only jeera and haldi (turmeric) when it comes to spices.
Mar 21, 2020 11:11 AM (IST) Posted by Parina Taneja

Baba Ramdev shares yoga asanas that can help boost immunity to fight COVID-19

Baba Ramdev shares home remedies that are very useful in preventing infections and building immunity. He claims that tulsi, giloy, adrak, kali mirch and amla are the most useful things you can find at your home that can help keep you safe from coronavirus. He insists that one should consume Vitamin C and protein in their diet to build immunity as a good immune system is the biggest shield for everyone at this time.