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  COVID-19 treatment: Oral medications that can help cure severe viral infection

  Health | May 05, 2022 16:15 IST

  The COVID-19 pandemic has mandated the requirement of oral medications that can eliminate the viral load inside an infected person's body and help cure the disease.

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  Cognitive loss from severe Covid equivalent to 20 years of ageing, reveals study

  Health | May 03, 2022 21:30 IST

  Cognitive impairment is common to a wide range of neurological disorders, including dementia, and even routine ageing, but the patterns we saw - the cognitive 'fingerprint' of Covid-19 - was distinct from all of these," said researchers. 

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  Maharashtra: Aurangabad hospitals mandate RT-PCR test before surgeries

  India | May 03, 2022 14:04 IST

  The district administration has also decided to issue show-cause notices to heads of 10 health centres to explain the low COVID-19 vaccination percentage there, the collector's release said.

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  UP: Section 144 clamped in Gautam Budh Nagar amid rising COVID cases, festivities

  India | May 02, 2022 6:56 IST

  Social distancing in schools during the exams has to be maintained with proper COVID-19 guidelines, the police have said.

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  'Indian economy may recover from Covid consequences by...': Know what RBI says

  Business | April 29, 2022 23:52 IST

  The RBI in its recent report on 'currency and finance' stated that the pandemic is a watershed moment. It further clarified that the ongoing structural changes catalysed by the pandemic can potentially alter the growth trajectory in the medium-term.

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  COVID-19 new variant, 10 times more dangerous than what was detected in third wave, found in Patna

  India | April 28, 2022 16:00 IST

  "There were 13 samples tested and one of them had BA.12 strains. The remaining 12 samples have BA.2 strains," it was told.

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  What is long COVID? Know diet and lifestyle changes that can help

  Health | April 27, 2022 12:22 IST

  Covid 19 has made unforeseeable changes to everyone’s lifestyle. People sometimes have to deal with its symptom for more than 12 weeks, and this is known as long covid. One can only get relief from long covid by following a healthy lifestyle and diet pattern.

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  Pandemic not over yet; global COVID cases declining due to drop in testing rates: WHO

  World | April 27, 2022 11:29 IST

  Last week, just more than 15,000 coronavirus-related deaths were reported to the WHO, the lowest weekly total since March 2020.

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  'Vaccine biggest protective shield', says PM Modi at Covid-19 review meeting with Chief Ministers

  India | April 27, 2022 13:54 IST

  Since past few days, India has been recording more than 2,000 COVID-19 cases on a daily bases, according to the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare bulletin.

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  Kamala Harris tests Covid positive, President Biden not ‘close contact’

  World | April 26, 2022 23:12 IST

  Harris press secretary Kirsten Allen said neither President Joe Biden nor first lady Jill Biden was considered a “close contact” of Harris in recent days.

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  COVID: Six in 10 people continue to suffer symptoms a year after infection, claims study

  Health | April 26, 2022 15:48 IST

  An estimated 25-40 per cent of people with Covid-19 develop long Covid, persisting symptoms that can affect multiple organs and include mental health problems.

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  Asthma drug can block crucial SARS-CoV-2 protein: Study

  Science | April 25, 2022 19:16 IST

  Approved by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the drug, called montelukast, has been around for more than 20 years and is usually prescribed to reduce inflammation caused by conditions like asthma, hay fever and hives, the official release by IISC stated on Monday.

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  COVID-19: Jharkhand schools to restrict morning assembly, sports activities, programmes

  India | April 25, 2022 13:52 IST

  As per the new guidelines, the schools have been asked to conduct health checkups on a regular basis in coordination with nearest health centres.

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  COVID-19: Yogi Adityanath directs officials to maintain vigil on children's health, vaccination

  India | April 20, 2022 14:22 IST

  In the last 24 hours, 103 new positive cases were reported in Gautam Buddh Nagar and 33 in Ghaziabad.

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  Haryana mandates face masks in 4 districts as COVID cases rise

  India | April 19, 2022 7:52 IST

  Of 234 cases reported in Haryana on Monday, 198 surfaced in Gurugram alone while 21 were from Faridabad.

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  Air India cancels flights to Hong Kong after 3 passengers test COVID positive

  World | April 18, 2022 10:25 IST

  Passengers from India can arrive in Hong Kong only if they have a COVID-19 negative certificate from a test done 48 hours prior to the journey.

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  India objects to WHO's methodology to calculate COVID-19 death toll

  India | April 17, 2022 6:45 IST

  The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare said that India has shared its concerns with the methodology along with the other Member States through a series of formal communications including six letters issued to WHO.

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  New Omicron sub-variants BA.4, BA.5 detected in Africa, Europe

  World | April 13, 2022 8:04 IST

  Incidentally, South Africa and Botswana were also the first to report on Omicron in November last year. South Africa was also the first country to be hit by the super mutant and vaccine evading variant of concern, before it became a global wave.

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  Heart problems after Covid rare in children but treatable, reveals study

  Health | April 11, 2022 23:27 IST

  Since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic, multisystem inflammatory syndrome (MIS-C) has been identified around the world, with as many as half of the cases involving inflammation of the heart muscle or heart arteries.