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New COVID-19 treatment rules: India cuts down use of Remdesivir, Tocilizumab, multivitamins, steroids
Himanichandna • 4 years agoAccording to the new guidelines, Remdesivir may be considered only in patients who have completed 10 days since the start of the symptoms and require supplemental oxygen.
Will Omicron bring an end to the COVID-19 pandemic? Here’s what experts have to say
Fp Staff • 4 years agoThe coronavirus variant, first detected in South Africa, has caused a massive spike in cases across the world, forcing governments to impose new restrictions
COVID-19: India records 90,000 fresh cases, 56% higher than Wednesday; Omicron spreads but hospitalisation still low
Fp Staff • 4 years agoThe daily count reported today is at least 56 percent higher than yesterday when 58,097 cases were recorded. With this, the overall caseload rose to 3,51,09,286, while the toll climbed to 4,82,876
Omicron Variant Updates: Reduced severity 'evolutionary mistake', COVID-19 not getting milder, says UK expert
Fp Staff • 4 years agoOmicron Variant LIVE Updates: Omicron Variant LIVE Updates: Ravindra Gupta, Professor of Clinical Microbiology at the Cambridge Institute for Therapeutic Immunology and Infectious Diseases (CITIID), led a recent study on the Omicron variant and was among the first globally to describe the modified fusion mechanism of cells at play which might make Omicron more visible to the body’s immune defences
COVID-19 on rise: Omicron in 84% of Delhi samples, fresh curbs in Goa as positivity rate hits 10.7%
Fp Staff • 4 years agoNew Year celebrations and the new COVID-19 variant has driven up the caseload in the national capital and the western coastal state
How will pandemic end? Ultra-contagious Omicron may forecast the endgame of COVID-19
• 4 years agoThe Omicron crisis shows that the world will reach a point where SARS-CoV-2 will be treated as an endemic much like flu, hopes infectious disease expert Stephen Kissler of the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
New York sees 'four fold increase' in hospitalised children as Omicron cases surge
• 4 years agoThe number of COVID-19 cases in the United States is on the rise, with an average of nearly 190,000 new infections daily over the past seven days, according to figures from Johns Hopkins University
In the time of Omicron, immunity war and the Endgame: What we may or may not avenge in 2022
Himanichandna • 4 years agoExperts say there will be an obvious race between vaccines and variants in the coming years till the Covid-19 pandemic becomes endemic. But much depends on individual behaviour.
Centre warns against lowering guard as India reports 358 Omicron cases, says 'world witnessing fourth COVID-19 surge'
Fp Staff • 4 years agoAddressing a joint press conference on the pandemic, the health secretary said that 61 percent of the adult population is fully vaccinated, while 89 percent has received the first COVID-19 dose
India records 122 Omicron cases in 24 hours; total tally of new COVID-19 variant rises to 358
• 4 years agoWith 88 infections, Maharashtra has the highest number of cases of the new highly transmissible variant, followed by Delhi with 67 and Telangana with 38