Across the globe a simple meal such as rice and beans costs the most in proportion to their income, highlights the United Nations World Food Programme’s (WFP) Cost of a Plate of Food report ...
Dr Randeep Guleria, the Director of All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), says that despite the downward trend in COVID-19 cases, it is important to sustain this in the coming festive season and winter months ...
While most COVID-19 cases in India remain asymptomatic, here’s what Dr Vincent Rajkumar, editor-in-chief of Blood Cancer Journal thinks about the prevalence of asymptomatic coronavirus patients in India ...
COVAX initiative aims to ensure global access to vaccines against the novel coronavirus by helping buy and distribute vaccination shots fairly around the world ...
The world awaits a safe and effective vaccine that can help put an end to the COVID-19 pandemic, here are the different phases of clinical trials the vaccine has to clear before being available for public use ...
As India’s coronavirus caseload increases and various sero survey results indicate, the bulk of COVID-19 cases in India are asymptomatic and this is making containing the spread a challenge
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As per the experts, there are two pathways to herd immunity - natural infection, when a large number of people have had a disease and recovered; or vaccination, which can provide widespread immunity faster and more reliably ...
According to experts, COVID-19 has been acknowledged as airborne by WHO which implies that such air conditioning systems that are recirculating the indoor air may spread coronavirus among users even when they are practising social distancing ...
The 'R' or the Reproduction Rate is a measure of how many people are infected by one infected person; where a declining R rate means the spread of COVID-19 is reducing and an upward trend in the R rate means the spread is increasing ...
NDTV speaks with director of AIIMS, Dr Randeep Guleria about India's surging covid numbers, dos and don'ts of different coronavirus tests and the long term effect of COVID on recovered patients ...
In the context of a human-borne illness, like COVID-19, a super spreader is an individual who is more likely to infect others, compared with other typically infected people ...
NDTV speaks Dr Rajinder K Dhamija, Head of Neurology Department, Lady Hardinge Medical College to understand if children and young adults are less vulnerable to COVID-19 ...
According to experts, T-cells play an essential role in supporting immune system and are responsible for defending the body against pathogens like the SARS-CoV-2 from re-invading, by identifying and killing the infected cells which suggest that these may also provide guard to COVID-19 survivor from the second attack of the virus ...
Currently, a team from the World Health Organisation (WHO) is in China to initiate modalities for investigating the origins of SARS-CoV-2, the virus behind the COVID-19 pandemic ...
While the medical community and the rest of the world have been scrambling for the past seven months to learn more about the novel coronavirus and fight COVID-19 pandemic, new trends show that the infection could have long term effects on the body, here is what experts have to say ...
The Global Hunger Index 2020 was launched on October 16 to mark the World Food Day, where India has been ranked 94 out of the 107 assessed countries and the report highlights the crisis of child wasting in the country ...
Failing to breastfeed according to the World Health Organization (WHO) and UNICEF recommendations amounts to real costs in human life, quality of life, and national economic outcomes ...
Access to proper handwashing facilities as well as water needed for handwashing and exposure to messages regarding effective handwashing is critical during times like COVID-19 pandemic, say experts ...
With the declining air quality of Delhi-NCR, stricter pollution control measures under the Graded Response Action Plan (GRAP) came into effect across the region on October 15, however, residents revealed in a survey that the pollution abatement plan is not being implemented effectively ...
According to health experts, tackling the issue of waste burning is even more pivotal now given the fact the nation is battling a coronavirus pandemic and both COVID-19 and air pollution essentially target respiratory system and lungs ...
Rashtriya Swachhata Kendra is an interactive experience centre in New Delhi, where the installations will introduce future generations to the journey of the world's largest behaviour change campaign, the Swachh Bharat Mission ...
Doctors had earlier prescribed that patients in home isolation should immediately consult a medical practitioner in case their oxygen saturation level fell below 94 per cent and they experience breathlessness ...
With the declining air quality of Delhi-NCR, stricter pollution control measures under the Graded Response Action Plan (GRAP) came into effect across the region on October 15, however, residents revealed in a survey that the pollution abatement plan is not being implemented effectively ...
The Ministry of Health has asked states to constitute committees for preparing for COVID-19 vaccine in terms of cold chain preparedness, operational planning, communication planning, strategies for anticipated state-specific challenges in terms of geographical terrain, network connectivity, and remote areas ...
Coronavirus has spread to 190 countries. The total confirmed cases worldwide are 4,55,62,966 and 11,88,702 have died; 1,46,89,842 are active cases and 2,96,84,422 have recovered as on October 31, 2020 at 3:53 am.
India
81,37,119 48268Cases
5,82,649 -11737Active
74,32,829 59454Recovered
1,21,641 551Deaths
In India, there are 81,37,119 confirmed cases including 1,21,641 deaths. The number of active cases is 5,82,649 and 74,32,829 have recovered as on October 31, 2020 at 2:30 am.
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