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In second year of pandemic, treating Covid-19 still in trial and error mode SECTIONS Share Synopsis Dr Manish Soneja, additional professor, department of medicine, AIIMS, who was part of the medical team that prepared the national guideline on Covid management, said the right selection of patients who could benefit from these therapies and the timing of their usage have proved to be the most important learning. Agencies Treatment for Covid involves three key components: drugs to reduce the viral load, steroids that can suppress a cytokine storm and drugs to prevent clotting of blood. (This st...

NEW DELHI: The daily tally of Covid-19 breached all records on Tuesday with the city reporting 13,468 new cases in 24 hours. This is the third highest in the country, after Maharashtra and Uttar Pradesh, both of which are much bigger in area and population size than the national capital. Earlier, on Sunday and Monday, Delhi had recorded 10,774 and 11,491 new cases, respectively. The city also recorded 81 deaths due to Covid-19. It is the highest since December 3 when 82 deaths were recorded. Due to the massive rise in cases, the hospitals are overwhelmed. Data on real-time availability of C...

The ministry has directed drug inspectors to verify stocks and check any malpractices and take other effective actions to curb hoarding or black marketing

Updated: April 10, 2021 11:18 IST Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan on Friday, April 9, 2021, said there have been no fresh COVID cases in the past seven days in 149 districts, while eight districts had reported no new cases in the past 14 days, three districts in the past 21 days and 63 districts in the past 28 days. Share Article AAA Senior citizens with the proof of documents wait for their turn for COVID-19 vaccination at a health centre in Bhubaneswar on Friday, April 9, 2021.   | Photo Credit: BISWARANJAN ROUT Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan on Friday, April 9, 2021, said there ...

‘Those vaccinated are also getting infected, but has mild symptoms’ There have been cases of people, who have taken two doses of COVID-19 vaccine, testing positive, according to doctors. But doctors said that in such cases, people had only “mild symptoms”. According to experts, COVID-19 vaccine prevents “severe illness” and not an infection. Sumit Ray, Head of Department of Critical Care at Holy Family Hospital, said that the hospital has seen four to five such cases. “We have seen about four to five patients who after two doses of the vaccine and a 15-day period after it, have...