AMR can usher a pandemic worse than Covid-19, suggest Experts
July 29, 2021 15:54 ISTThe World Health Organization identifies AMR as one of the significant threats to global health and estimates that it will contribute to 10 million deaths by 2050.
The World Health Organization identifies AMR as one of the significant threats to global health and estimates that it will contribute to 10 million deaths by 2050.
With 38,740 people discharged in the last 24 hours, the number of recoveries now stands at 3,04,68,079 across the country.
Head of epidemiology and infectious diseases at the ICMR, Dr Samiran Panda said, "It's very important for each state to examine the state level epidemic and take a call like some of them might be in a situation where they have the very low intensity of the first and second wave."
The trial -- 'India-UK RECOVERY (Randomised Evaluation of COVID-19 therapy)' -- will be a multi-centre, adaptive platform trial on Covid patients, ICMR said on Friday.
Briefing about the Delta Plus variant, Arora told IANS that it has emerged in several parts of the country and around 52 cases have been reported, including one in Faridabad. He, however, added that there was still very little knowledge about this new strain.
India reported 62,224 new COVID-19 cases in last 24 hours. The country reported 2,542 deaths in last 24 hrs, taking the toll to 3,79,573. 1,07,628 patients got recovered and discharged, taking overall recoveries to 2,83,88,100. Recovery rate increases to 95.80%, Weekly Positivity Rate drops to less than 5%. 26,19,72,014 vaccine doses have been administered across the country so far.
As per the schedule, the JRF exam will be conducted on September 12 in a single session from 3 to 4:30 pm. The online application process is likely to open from July 1. Interested candidates can apply through the websites- icmr.nic.in, pgimer.edu.in
Around 4K people above the age of 45 yrs who have taken either one or both doses of any of these two vaccines will be reviewed, according to Dr Tarun Bhatnagar, senior scientist at ICMR's NIE in Chennai.
According to doctors, cases of mucormycosis are being seen among Covid patients who were administered steroids to treat symptoms, and particularly among those who are suffering from diabetes and cancer.
At a time when more and more testings are being done to trace, treat Covid cases in the country, the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) on Thursday approved a home-based rapid antigen testing (RAT) kit — CoviSelf, for Covid-19.
The Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR), the country's apex health research body, has approved a home-based rapid antigen testing (RAT) kit -- CoviSelf, for Covid-19. It said that the kit should be used only on symptomatic individuals and on immediate contacts of laboratory confirmed positive cases. It will provide results in 15 minutes.
How to use CoviSelf: The ICMR has approved a home-based rapid antigen testing (RAT) kit. The kit should be used only on symptomatic individuals.
The Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) on Wednesday released an advisory for COVID-19 home testing using Rapid Antigen Tests (RAT).
The government on Monday removed convalescent plasma therapy from the country's clinical management guidelines on Covid-19. The move comes as the therapy was found to be ineffective in reducing the progression to severe disease or death.
The second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic is impacting slightly more number of younger people as they might have begun going out and also because of some variants of SARs-COV-2 prevalent in the country, the ICMR chief said on Tuesday.
At a press conference, ICMR director general Dr Balram Bhargava said that the national COVID-19 positivity rate is around 21 per cent and about 42 per cent (310/734) of the districts are reporting a positivity rate more than the national average.
A bench of Justices Vipin Sanghi and Rekha Palli said that the court had earlier also taken note that on several occasions RTPCR tests have given false-negative results and therefore, it cannot be insisted upon to provide treatment or medication to patients when they otherwise exhibit symptoms of COVID-19 infection.
The advisory stated that RT-PCR test must not be repeated in any individual who has tested positive once either by RAT or RT-PCR and that testing is not required for COVID-19 recovered individuals at the time of hospital discharge in accordance with the discharge policy of the Ministry of Health.
The Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) has granted permission for conducting a feasibility study of Covid-19 vaccine delivery using drones in collaboration with IIT Kanpur.
ICMR will conduct this study in collaboration with Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, the ministry's press release said.
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