Tag: Covid19 Death

Raipur: Congress leader and former MP Karuna Shukla died of coronavirus in Raipur, her family members said on Tuesday. The niece of former prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee died at…

New Delhi: Amid a controversy over the cremation of the 68-year-old woman who died in Delhi after being infected with novel coronavirus, the Union health ministry has begun working on framing guidelines for handling the bodies of those who die of the disease. Though it is unlikely that coronavirus infection could spread from handling of […]

New Delhi: The total number of Covid-19 cases in the country climbed to 31,332 on Wednesday morning, the Union Health Ministry said. Of the total cases, 22,629 are active, 7,695 people have recovered, and 1007 people have succumbed to the disease. As many as 73 deaths & 1897 new cases have been reported in India […]

London: Clinician-scientists have found that Irish patients admitted to hospital with severe coronavirus (COVID-19) infection are experiencing abnormal blood clotting that contributes to death in some patients. The research team from the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland found that abnormal blood clotting occurs in Irish patients with severe COVID-19 infection, causing micro-clots within the […]

New Delhi: Lokpal member Justice (retired) Ajay Kumar Tripathi, who tested positive for COVID-19, died after suffering a cardiac arrest at the AIIMS Trauma Centre here on Saturday, official sources said. Tripathi (62) breathed his last around 9 PM. A former chief justice of the Chhattisgarh High Court, he had been in the AIIMS Trauma […]

Beijing: Patients with raised blood pressure have a two-fold increased risk of dying from the coronavirus (Covid-19) compared to patients without high blood pressure, warn researchers. In addition, the study, published in the European Heart Journal, found that patients with high blood pressure who were not taking medication to control the condition were at even […]

Ganjam: Coronavirus continues to bring unending miseries and one arguably cannot find better examples than two families in Ganjam who have seen their world turn upside down in the pandemic. Anuradha Panigrahi from Digapahandi lost her husband, father-in-law and mother-in-law to the virus. Though she also contracted the infection, she was fortunate to return home […]