Mount Sinai medical system s Dr. Ash Tewari and his team send ventilators and oxygen equipment to save lives
COVID-19 infections and deaths are mounting with alarming speed in India with no end in sight to the crisis and a top expert warning that the coming weeks in the country of nearly 1.4 billion people will be horrible.
India s official count of coronavirus cases surpassed 20 million Tuesday, nearly doubling in the past three months, while deaths officially have passed 220,000. Staggering as those numbers are, the true figures are believed to be far higher, the undercount an apparent reflection of the troubles in the health care system.
IISER Bhopal identifies protein key in viral transmission
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Bhopal, May 4 : Researchers from the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER) Bhopal have shown that proteins from the Covid-19 virus other than the well-known spike protein can play a critical role in the infectivity of the virus.
The research, published in the peer-reviewed journal Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology, suggests that it is not enough to study spike protein alone to develop therapeutic drugs, antibodies, and entry inhibitors, since actual infectivity levels may vary significantly based on the presence of other viral proteins like the nucleocapsid (N) protein.
India’s official average of newly confirmed cases per day has soared from over 65,000 on April 1 to about 370,000, and deaths per day have officially gone from over 300 to more than 3,000.
On Tuesday, the health ministry reported 357,229 new cases in the past 24 hours and 3,449 deaths from COVID-19.
Dr. Ashish Jha, dean of Brown University’s School of Public Health in the U.S., said he is concerned that Indian policymakers he has been in contact with believe things will improve in the next few days.
“I’ve been . trying to say to them, `If everything goes very well, things will be horrible for the next several weeks. And it may be much longer,‘” he said.
‘Horrible Weeks Ahead as India s Virus Catastrophe Worsens India is witnessing scenes of people dying outside overwhelmed hospitals and funeral pyres lighting up the night sky By Aniruddha Ghosal •
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COVID-19 infections and deaths are mounting with alarming speed in India with no end in sight to the crisis and a top expert warning that the coming weeks in the country of nearly 1.4 billion people will be “horrible.”
India s official count of coronavirus cases surpassed 20 million Tuesday, nearly doubling in the past three months, while deaths officially have passed 220,000. Staggering as those numbers are, the true figures are believed to be far higher, the undercount an apparent reflection of the troubles in the health care system.
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A man walks carrying a refilled cylinder as family members of Covid-19 patients wait in queue to refill their oxygen cylinders at Mayapuri area in New Delhi, India
Covid-19 infections and deaths are mounting with alarming speed in India with a top expert warning that the coming weeks in the country of nearly 1.4 billion people will be “horrible”.
India’s official count of coronavirus cases surpassed 20 million on Tuesday, nearly doubling in the past three months, while deaths officially passed 220,000.
Staggering as those numbers are, the true figures are believed to be far higher, the undercount an apparent reflection of the troubles in the health care system.