Covid 19 Contact Tracing

Tulsi Gabbard releases explosive COVID files, claims Biden's top advisor Dr Fauci funded Wuhan lab

Tulsi Gabbard released classified COVID-related documents on her last day as US Director of National Intelligence. She alleges Dr Anthony Fauci funded gain-of-function research at China's Wuhan Institute of Virology.

Is Singapore moving towards another LOCKDOWN? record 56,000 COVID-19 cases within a week

Singapore Health Ministry has announced the opening of a second COVID-19 treatment facility at Singapore Expo Hall 10 this weekend to increase the number of beds for COVID-19 patients. Their doctors will decide if they should be admitted.

US study finds 1 in 10 get long COVID after omicron I CHECK if you have these symptoms

The new research, published Thursday in the Journal of the American Medical Association, includes more than 8,600 adults who had COVID-19 at different points in the pandemic, comparing them to another 1,100 who hadn’t been infected.

Women twice as likely as men to develop long COVID, study finds

journal JAMA in its publication, citing the study, also highlighted that the risk of developing long COVID increased dramatically for women who were hospitalised with the SARS-CoV-2 virus compared to men.

Delhi govt lays down SOPs for Covid-19 cases | Check details

Under the SOPs, labs have been directed to give real-time data within 20 hours to the State COVID-19 Response Centre. They have been directed to segregate cases on the basis of districts, assembly names and wards, etc. This data will be published on the integrated management app.

Platforms to help you Track Covid Cases besides Arogya Setu

Here is a list of applications and platform to track COVID cases around you, besides Aarogya Setu.

Chinese researchers removed key COVID gene data from NIH database

Jesse Bloom, a virologist at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle, described the removal of the sequencing data in a new paper posted online on bioRxiv on Tuesday.

Nagaland govt to cut non-development expenditure to fund free COVID vaccination programme

The Nagaland government has decided to cut the non-development expenditure of its departments by 20 percent to fund additional expenses for providing free COVID-19 vaccines 

5 Ghaizabad hospitals raided over irregularities in stocking medicines

Two held from Haryana's Panipat for Remdesivir black marketing

The Haryana Police on Thursday arrested two people from Panipat on the charges of black-marketing of antiviral drug Remdesivir.

AIIMS move to discontinue contact tracing of exposed healthcare workers flayed by IMA

The IMA on Tuesday slammed the decision by the AIIMS here to discontinue contact tracing of exposed health care workers and quarantine of asymptomatic contacts, saying they can spread coronavirus infection to many while providing treatment.  

Telangana IT and Industry Minister KTR tests corona positive

Telangana's Minister for information technology and industry K.T. Rama Rao has tested positive for Covid-19. Rao tweeted on Friday that he had tested positive with mild symptoms.

15-day-old infant dies of COVID-19 at Surat hospital

A 15-day-old baby girl, who was born to a COVID-19 patient, succumbed to coronavirus at a hospital in Gujarat's Surat city

Covid-19 not necessarily the big one, it’s a wake-up call: WHO warns crisis may get worse

The World Health Organisation have warned that the Coronavirus is not necessarily the big one, and that there is a real chance of another, more serious pandemic spreading across the world and urged the world to get "serious" about preparedness. "This is a wake-up call," WHO emergencies chief Michael Ryan told reporters at a briefing.

Rajasthan wedding guest limit: Govt to cancel owners license if guests exceed 100 at venue

In view of the prevailing COVID-19 situation, the owner of the wedding hall or garden will have to ensure that entry to the venue is closed once 100 people gather. The state government also informed that if rules are violated, the owner of the venue will be held responsible and action will be taken against him and his license will also be cancelled,

Apple tells more about the working about COVID-19 contact tracing tech: Know what it is

Apple and Google's COVID-19 contact tracing tech has some issues and Apple tries to provide an answer for it

Apple books new Coronavirus domain name after Google collaboration: See what it is

Apple has gone for a domain name for its COVID-19 contact tracing tech in collaboration with Google