Bengaluru will see its Covid-19 peak around May 17, predicted the experts at IISc. (PTI)
Karnataka has been recording the highest number of Covid-19 cases after Maharashtra and is now the second worst-hit state in the country. Even as cases continue to spike, experts have said Bengaluru may see the second wave of Covid-19 start flattening only after May 17.
According to a report in Bangalore Mirror, the Department of Computational and Data Sciences at the Indian Institute of Science (
Bengaluru will see its Covid-19 peak around May 17, predicted the experts at IISc. The esteemed institute has further said that Bengaluru by June 11, another 14,000 people may die due to Covid-19.
A potentially fatal fungal infection is cropping up among India’s Covid patients.
Medical workers attending to Covid-19 patients in the emergency ward at a hospital in New Delhi last week.Credit.Rebecca Conway/Getty Images
May 9, 2021
NEW DELHI Doctors in India are concerned about an increasing number of potentially fatal fungal infections affecting either people who have Covid-19 or those who have recently recovered from the disease.
The condition, known as mucormycosis, has a high mortality rate and was present in India before the pandemic. It is caused by a mold that thrives in wet environments and can attack through the respiratory tract, potentially eroding facial structures and harming the brain.
Mujib Mashal, The New York Times
Published: 10 May 2021 12:35 AM BdST
Updated: 10 May 2021 12:35 AM BdST Rohan Aggarwal, 26, a resident doctor treating patients suffering from the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), looks at a patient s x-ray scan during his 27-hour shift at Holy Family Hospital in New Delhi, India, May 1, 2021. Reuters
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The condition, known as mucormycosis, has a high mortality rate and was present in India before the pandemic. It is caused by a mould that thrives in wet environments and can attack through the respiratory tract, potentially eroding facial structures and harming the brain.
For the first time, India has recorded more than 4,000 Covid-19 related deaths as cases continue to surge across the country and two more states go into lockdown.
Saturday s record of 4,187 deaths takes the country s official death toll from the virus to nearly 240,000, although the true figure is believed to be much higher.
A further 401,000 new infections were also confirmed in the last 24 hours, meaning India has recorded over 400,000 new cases for three consecutive days.
Two southern states in India became the latest to declare lockdowns, as pressure mounts on Prime Minister Narendra Modi to implement a nationwide shutdown.
At over 300,000, Karnataka s capital of Bengaluru has the highest active caseload of any Indian city.
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