Delhi: After first shot in arm, they vax eloquent
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Last Updated: Jan 17, 2021, 10:13 AM IST
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The vaccination was described as a 45-minute, threestep process by those who took it. The vitals were checked after 15 minutes of the vaccine being administered and each of them monitored for half an hour. They were allowed to leave only if their pulse and blood pressure recorded normal readings.
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On Saturday, Shah was a much-relieved man after being one of the 4,319 health workers in Delhi to be inoculated in the first phase of vaccination.
(This story originally appeared in on Jan 17, 2021)NEW DELHI: As the capital battled Covid-19, Raj Nath Shah, a 43-year-old housekeeping staff at Fortis Escorts Heart Institute in South Delhi, didn’t go home for close to six months for fear of exposing his family to the deadly virus. On Saturday, Shah was a much-relieved man after being one of the 4,319 health workers in Delhi to be inoculated in the first phase
Covid vaccination: India’s top 5 doctors answer all your key questions
India’s Covid-19 vaccination drive starts on Saturday. Three lakh healthcare workers will get the shot across 3,006 sites.
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Over the next few weeks, 1 crore healthcare workers will be vaccinated. (PTI)
India’s Covid-19 vaccination drive starts on Saturday. Three lakh healthcare workers will get the shot across 3,006 sites. Over the next few weeks, 1 crore healthcare workers will be vaccinated.
India Today TV Consulting Editor Rajdeep Sardesai spoke to the country’s six top doctors who addressed some of the key questions surrounding the immunization programme.
Q: Do you think the vaccines are completely safe for healthcare workers?
Alastair Macaulay, The New York Times
Published: 07 Jan 2021 12:06 PM BdST
Updated: 07 Jan 2021 12:06 PM BdST Indian dance scholar Sunil Kothari. Photo from Wikipedia
Few critics or historians have been so central to the performing arts as Sunil Kothari was to the world of Indian traditional dance. As a critic, scholar and teacher of youthful energy, he explored India’s rich dance spectrum in at least a dozen books, with choreographers and dancers all over the nation coming to know him as both an authority and a friend. );
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He died Dec 27 at 87 in the Fortis Escorts Heart Institute in Delhi. Three weeks earlier he had announced on social media that he was ill from COVID-19 but was recovering. Soon after he was released, he suffered cardiac arrest and was taken to the hospital.
Pandemic winter: Cardiac issues including heart attack rise by 50%
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How to prevent heart diseases among youth. Image Source: IANS News
New Delhi, Jan 3 : As the mercury continues to fall in bone-chilling winter, a contrasting scenario is being reported in hospitals of Delhi-NCR. The fast-dipping temperature and the post-COVID trauma has led to a rise in cases of heart-related issues.
Hospitals are witnessing at least 50 per cent rise in such cases in comparison to last winter. The cases, including heart attacks and strokes have significantly increased, doctors told IANS.
Medanta Hospital in Gurugram said that it has seen 50 per cent rise in patients coming with heart issues since the start of December.
Are Covid-19 vaccinations at risk due to new virus strain?
By IANS| Published: 30th December 2020 4:25 am IST
By Gokul Bhagabati
New Delhi, Dec 29 : Just when the world breathed a bit easy after countries like the UK and the US starting the process of vaccination against Covid-19, reports of a new strain found in the UK with properties to spread much faster than the dominant strain triggered many questions including whether the new strain has the ability to evade vaccine-induced immunity.
This crucial question comes at a time when India is also expected to approve the use of a Covid-19 vaccine soon.