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 ...
SuPoshan Sanginis are women volunteers who support Anganwadi and ASHA workers. Their main role is to identify malnourished children, anaemic girls and women and support them through nutrition plan ...
While AYUSH would provide technical guidance for various interventions on malnutrition, WCD Ministry will enable outreach of AYUSH through Anganwadi Centres ...
The World Health Organisation (WHO) recommends exclusively breastfeeding for the first six months of life followed by continued breastfeeding alongside complementary feeding for a minimum of two years ...
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 ...
According to the Central Pollution Control Board, air pollution sources like vehicular emissions, local coal combustion, waste incineration and others reduced sharply from the pre-lockdown phase into lockdown phase-I and were found to rise back with relaxations in the lockdown ...
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 ...
According to Medical Director of Rajiv Gandhi Super Speciality Hospital, both Dengue and COVID-19 have no specific treatment, which makes it even difficult for treating doctors of patients with both diseases ...
According to scientists, treating infectious diseases with antibodies has a long history and this approach is also being investigated for COVID-19 through the administration of plasma derived from the blood of recovered patients ...
Coronavirus has spread to 188 countries. The total confirmed cases worldwide are 3,22,27,134 and 9,82,949 have died; 90,11,771 are active cases and 2,22,32,414 have recovered as on September 25, 2020 at 3:43 am.
India
58,18,570 86052Cases
9,70,116 3734Active
47,56,164 81177Recovered
92,290 1141Deaths
In India, there are 58,18,570 confirmed cases including 92,290 deaths. The number of active cases is 9,70,116 and 47,56,164 have recovered as on September 25, 2020 at 2:30 am.
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