Covid patients are more susceptible to secondary infection, says ICMR
May 28, 2021
Study says poor hospital practices, irrational antibiotics usage leading to higher mortality
Poor infection control practices in hospitals and irrational antibiotic prescription practices are triggering secondary infections in Covid-19 patients, leading to a higher mortality, according to a study coordinated by the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR).
The study, recently published in the journal
Infection and Drug Resistance, found that out of 17,534 Covid-19 patients admitted in 10 hospitals across the country, 3.6 per cent developed secondary bacterial or fungal infection while in the hospital. The mortality among patients who developed secondary infections was as high as 56.7 per cent compared to an overall mortality of 10.6 per cent among hospitalised Covid 19 patients in general, the study said.
Trigger warning: Mentions of casteist abuse and suicide
In April 2021, videos surfaced on the internet that showed Seema Singh, an associate professor at IIT Kharagpur, hurling abuses at students of marginalised castes and/or with physical disabilities during an online class. Her tirade was allegedly a response to a student not standing up for the national anthem and not saying “
Bharatmata ki jai“.
Another video shows Singh responding publicly to a student’s email asking for a few days’ leave after her grandfather had succumbed to COVID-19. In her response, Singh calls the request an example of “non-application of the human mind”, among other things.
All play, no work for the Prime Minister It has taken a brutal pandemic to expose the myth of Narendra Modi’s work ethic
Work is worship. The admirers of Narendra Modi believe that the prime minister is working hard to save India from the second wave of a virus that has brought the nation to its knees. However, given the reality on the ground, their devotion has acquired a touch of the absurd. Several members of the Union cabinet as well as leaders of the Bharatiya Janata Party recently shared a column attributed to the outfit’s media relations convener that assured India that Mr Modi, who, unlike his usual self, has been avoiding the limelight recently, has been hard at work. The evidence of the prime minister’s Calvinist spirit accompanied the piece, just in case Mr Modi’s critics the legion of anti-nationals according to BJP lore remain unconvinced. For instance, readers w
May 12, 2021
To boost infrastructure development in J&K, more than 500 projects worth more than $80 million have been completed, and more than 2,000 projects worth nearly $800 million have been approved. Courtesy file photo
NEW DELHI Despite enormous challenges facing the country in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic, the federal government in India has been making constant efforts to create opportunities for citizens to transform the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) into a secular, decentralized, and a diverse region as well as to ensure all-inclusive development, efficient governance, socio-economic justice for disadvantaged sections of the society as well as quantum improvement in the lives of all in the UT without any discrimination.
If anyone has been wondering what Prime Minister Narendra Modi has been up to when the Covid second wave is brutalising India, the answer is blowing in countless data packets.
Several Union ministers and senior BJP leaders have been sharing a column titled “PM Modi has been working hard; don’t get trapped in the opposition’s barbs”.
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Death is big news, recovery is not. Do we know that more than 85% people recover without hospitalization and only 5% need critical care. But the larger debate in the country is not about recovery or death: it is about who should be blamed for the pandemic. https://t.co/O3zmOoN935 Amit Malviya (@amitmalviya) May 11, 2021