Covid-19 - The Purbottar

20 Sep

India To Resume Export, Donations Of Surplus Covid Vaccines Next Month

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The Union Minister of Health and Family Welfare Mansukh Mandaviya on September 20 said the government will resume exports of COVID-19 vaccine under the Vaccine Maitri initiative from October. Mandaviya told the media that India will resume vaccine exports to fulfil the country's commitment towards the world in the collective fight against COVID. This announcement has come just a day before Prime Minister Narendra Modi's visit to the US where the issue of vaccine export was likely going to be raised by US President, Joe Biden. Addressing the media, Mandaviya said that this is an effort to restart the 'Vaccine…

17 Sep

Long Covid in kids rarely last beyond 12 weeks

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Long Covid symptoms rarely persist beyond 12 weeks in children and adolescents unlike adults, suggests a review. The review, published in the Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal, analysed 14 international studies involving 19,426 children and adolescents who reported persistent symptoms following Covid-19. The findings showed that long covid among children is less common than feared. The most common symptoms reported four to 12 weeks after acute infection were headache, fatigue, sleep disturbance, concentration difficulties, and abdominal pain. “It is reassuring that there was little evidence that symptoms persisted longer than 12 weeks suggesting long Covid might be less of a concern…

03 Sep

‘Vaccines don’t give 100 per cent protection’

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Dr. Nikhil Tandon, is Professor in the Department of Endocrinology and Metabolism at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences, and Head of Capacity Building at the Centre for Chronic Disease Control in New Delhi. His research interests include autoimmune thyroid disease which includes thyroid epidemiology, diabetes and metabolic bone disease, and the impact of early life events in adult chronic disease. In an interview to Swimmi Shrivastava, Dr Tandon talks about precautions everyone, especially people with diabetes and other comorbidities, should take to avoid a surge in the Covid-19 cases during the upcoming festival season. This second wave had…

01 Sep

Schools reopen in Delhi, UP, MP, Telangana, Tamil Nadu, Karnataka today

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The schools, colleges, and other educational institutions across several states, including Delhi, Tamil Nadu, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh and many more will reopen today i.e. on September 1. A few special protocols are meant to adhere to the government-necessitated coronavirus disease (Covid-19) guidelines. SOPs have been released to ensure the safety of students which include staggered lunch breaks, minimum seating capacity in class, masking and sanitization protocols, etc. The decision to reopen schools was taken after a significant drop in the number of COVID-19 cases was seen in the country. For most of the states, attendance has been made voluntary. While…

26 Aug

WhatsApp to help vaccination slot booking

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It is now easy to locate a vaccination centre and book a vaccine-appointment. The Ministry of Health and MyGov announced that the MyGov Corona Helpdesk on WhatsApp now allows users to locate their nearest vaccination centre and book their vaccine-appointment. Ctizens can save the WhatsApp number +91 9013151515 on their phones to contact MyGov Corona Helpdesk chatbot, start a chat by typing ‘Book Slot’ and send it to the number. This will generate a 6-digit one-time password on the respective mobile phone number. Users then choose a preferred date and location, based on the pincode and vaccine type. All users…

21 Aug

‘Pride of India’: Glenmark’s world record

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For the largest pin badge sentence 'Pride of India', Glenmark Pharmaceuticals successfully achieved a world record on 18 August in Mumbai. This achievement is aimed to honour the healthcare warriors, who have been on the frontlines of the nation’s battle against COVID-19, safeguarding countrymen’s lives whilst risking theirs. A total of 22,373 Indian flag pin badges were used to create the sentence. Over 15,000 diabetologists, cardiologists and physicians from across the country participated and supported this unique initiative honouring the frontline warriors. In the Diabetes Care segment in India, Glenmark Pharmaceuticals is a pioneer and it is the first company in…

20 Aug

Lupin’s Aptivate to help children

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There is still no approved vaccine available for children in India, though children are most susceptible to Coronavirus among the unvaccinated. During the peak of the second wave, almost 80,000 kids had tested positive across five states according to government data. In view of all these developments, immunity for the kid below 18 becomes a matter of paramount importance. Lupin’s Aptivate is an ayurvedic syrup that helps in improving appetite and mothers can easily give home cooked nutritious food to their children. It also contains nine natural ingredients like Giloy, Amla, Pippali, etc., that help in building a strong immune…

11 Aug

In last 5 days 242 Children in Bengaluru Tested Positive for Covid

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The Bengaluru civic body, Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP), said 242 children below the age of 19 tested positive in the last five days. According to the data, 106 children below the age of 9 years and 136 children between 9 and 19 years have tested positive in the last five days in the city. The health department has warned that the positive cases of children may rise in the coming days. The Karnataka government has already ordered night and weekend curfews in all the districts, and entries to Kerala-Karnataka, Maharashtra-Karnataka borders have been restricted. Only those who can show…

09 Aug

SC notice on plea seeking transparency in vaccine clinical data

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The Supreme Court on Monday issued notice on a plea seeking transparency in clinical trial data for the vaccines being administered in India under emergency use authorization and also a stay on the vaccine mandates, which is being issued by authorities in various parts of the country. Advocate Prashant Bhushan, representing petitioner Jacob Puliyel, vehemently argued that there is evidence in the medical literature that, vaccines that have not been adequately tested for safety or efficacy are now licensed under emergency use authorization without the data being disclosed to the public. Bhushan emphasized coercive mandates for use of these inadequately…

08 Aug

Mixing and matching of Covaxin and Covishield vaccines show better result: ICMR

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Mixing and matching of Covaxin and Covishield, the Covid-19 vaccines available in India, have shown better results in building immunity against the virus, according to a study by the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR). The study was conducted between May and June this year in Uttar Pradesh. The study suggests that immunisation with combination of an adenovirus vector platform-based vaccine followed by inactivated whole virus vaccine was not only safe but also gave better immunity against the variant strains of SARS-CoV-2. "Such mixed regimens will also help to overcome the challenges of shortfall of particular vaccines and remove hesitancy…