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Mucormycosis, a rare fungal disease, usually infects people whose immune system has been compromised.

Some doctors say that a panic use of steroids to fight the coronavirus has caused an explosion of the rare fungal disease. "Black fungus" kills more than 50% of patients within days.

The ambulance was stopped at the Panchalingala check-post on NH-44 in Kurnool district. Even as the tragedy struck, Telangana high court on Friday stayed a circular issued by the state government restraining entry of ambulances carrying Covid patients from neighbouring states into its territory. Terming the May 11 circular by the state as ‘discriminatory’ and saying it “violates the right to life as guaranteed by the Constitution and runs contrary to the provisions of the Epidemics Act and Disaster Management Act,” a bench of Chief Justice Hima Kohli and Justice B Vijaysen Reddy iss...

Updated May 15, 2021, 12:00 am IST Issues stay order on state circular restricting movements of ambulances on interstate borders  Justice Hima Kohli came down heavily on the government for issuing the circular, which indirectly restrained treatment to Covid patients of other states in hospitals in Hyderabad. (Photo: DC) Hyderabad: The Telangana High Court on Friday stayed the implementation of a circular issued by the state government on May 11, with guidelines to streamline the influx of ambulances carrying Covid-19 patients from other states into Telangana for hospitalisation. The court m...

Satna cops had sezied the oxygen cylinders during a raid BHOPAL: Satna district administration and police on Sunday confiscated more than 600 oxygen cylinders from Satna and Rewa district and distributed them to various hospitals. One person identified as Rajeev Kumar Jain has been taken into custody under various sections of Epidemics Act and Black-Marketing Act. He is proprietor of Vindhya Engineering. During the raid at his godown, police made repeated calls for his presence, but he didn’t turn up. Later, the locks were opened in the presence of independent witnesses. “His brother had...