Tag: Covid 19

On Doctor's Day today, let us remember the hard work that the caregivers put in when the world was fighting Corona pandemic.

The television channel had aired an audio conversation between two people in August 2020. One of the persons, who claimed (in the clip) to have returned from a Covid hospital after recovery, undermined the disease saying it would be cured without treatment and medicines.

In an interview conducted by Chinese-born human rights activist and author Jennifer Zeng, Chao Shao claimed that the researchers were tasked with identifying the most effective strain for spreading among various species, including people, Jerusalem Post reported.

According to Professor Rocio Nunez-Calonge, scientific advisor at UR International Group at the Scientific Reproduction Unit, in Spain, even after an average of 100 days following SARS-CoV-2 infection, there appeared to be no improvement in sperm quality and concentration, although new sperm would have been produced in that time.

"Patients zero" included Ben Hu, Ping Yu and Yan Zhu -- the scientists working on the controversial "gain-of-function" research on SARS-like viruses at the WIV, according to an investigation published on the Substack newsletter Public and Racket.

The team from NYU Abu Dhabi investigated the association between microRNAs, a class of small RNA molecules that regulate genes, and Covid severity among 259 unvaccinated Covid patients living in Abu Dhabi.

With over 650 million people globally having been infected with SARS-CoV-2, long Covid represents a significant public health concern that affects quality of life, earnings, and health care costs.

Ghebreyesus also reminded the world that in the face of overlapping crises, "pandemics are far from the only threat we face".

Long COVID is described as experiencing persistent symptoms of the disease more than four weeks after initial infection.

After three long gruelling years of Covid-19, the World Health Organisation (WHO) on Friday declared that the pandemic is no longer a public health emergency.

According to sources, a total of 7671 samples were tested in the last 24 hours of which 542 came positive. 

Directorate of Public Health, Odisha had issued an order, directing all the health authorities and medical college, and hospitals in the State to use masks to avoid the spread of the virus.

Wearing masks have also been made compulsory for people while visiting areas having possibility of high transmission and the persons with influenza like illness.

With the detection of 502 new cases of Covid infections, the active caseload in Odisha now stands at 2,926.

The study, led by Vipin M. Vashishtha, member of WHO's Vaccine Safety Net, is based on 25 children seen in OPD of a paediatric hospital in Uttar Pradesh between April 4-16.