India battles fatal fungal threat
HAMPERING EFFORTS: Mucormycosis especially affects people who have been given steroids, which are often used in rural India for COVID-19 treatment, an expert said
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Doctors in India are fighting a fatal fungal infection affecting COVID-19 patients and those who have recovered from the disease amid a surge of the virus that has driven the country’s fatalities to nearly 300,000.
The life-threatening condition, known as mucormycosis, is relatively rare, but doctors suspect that the sudden increase in the fungal infections could complicate India’s fight against the COVID-19 pandemic.
New Delhi has reported more than 26 million confirmed COVID-19 cases since the pandemic began, with almost half occurring in the past two months.
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Canada may extend travel ban on India, Pakistan as COVID-19 remains concern, feds say Twinkle Ghosh and Sean Boynton © THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jonathan Hayward
Canada may extend its current flight ban on India and Pakistan as concerns remain over a highly transmissible variant of the novel coronavirus first discovered in India. The Government of Canada continuously monitors and evaluates the situation and may extend travel and border measures to continue to protect Canadians, Health Canada told Global News in an emailed statement Thursday.
“We did this in anticipation of the existing suspension on flights between the two countries being extended.”
After 11 days of a continuous conflict between the two sides,
Israel and Hamas have come to an agreement of a ceasefire with the help of a deal brokered by the US, UN and Egypt. The ceasefire has come into effect after hundreds of people have been killed on both sides. Meanwhile, a group of researchers, in Malayasia, have found traces of
canine coronavirus in children who were admitted to local hospitals for pneumonia in 2017 and 2018. In India, the ICMR has approved the country s first
home-test kits for
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