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13 Jul

1st COVID-19 Patient of India Tests Positive again for the Coronavirus

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Today in Kerala's Thrissur health authorities said that the woman who was tested positive for corona virus has tested positive again. she told to the press she tested for corona virus as she was prepared to go to New Delhi for study purposes. Then the test came out as positive. The woman is currently at home and she is good. It was on January 30, 2020 the third year medical student from Wuhan university tested positive for COVID-19, becoming India's first COVID-19 patient, and after that she had returned home following semester holidays. After nearly three weeks of treatment at…

10 Jul

ICMR notified Corona Virus will stay forever

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The Corona virus will not get easily,after a while, just like influenza, and vulnerable populations may have to take the vaccine shot annually. On friday , Head, Division of Epidemiology and Communicable Diseases, ICMR, Covid-19, is expected to gradually become an endemic. According to Head Division of Epidemiology Centre Samiran Panda said 100 years ago the influenza changed as pandemic. There should minor changes in the vaccine formulations simultaneously. Experiments at the ICMR have proved that the vaccines presently available in India are effective against the new Covid variants as well. However, the efficacy may differ for different strains.

03 Jul

Bengal Govt fixes medical test rates for private labs and hospitals

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On Friday , similar to the capping of coronavirus test prices the West Bengal Clinical Establishment Regulatory Commission (WBCERC) fixed the charges on five radiological tests and 15 pathological tests which are conducted by private hospitals. The health department has issued an order that all private hospitals with more than 150 beds would follow the order. Among pathological tests, the Procalcitonin test cannot cost more than Rs 4,000, the upper limit for the IL-6 test has been fixed at Rs 3,500, for D-dimer, it is Rs 2,300. According to the commission, Amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, many had complained about exorbitant rates of tests…

15 Jun

Study says ,Sputnik V is more effective against the Delta variant of coronavirus

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The Russia's Covid-19 vaccine has claimed that Sputnik V is more efficient against the Delta variant of coronavirus than any other vaccine. Sputnik-V has claimed that the one which was found in India., the Gamaleya Center study has the vaccine most effective vaccine against the coronavirus. The first dose of the imported vaccine was administered in Hyderabad last month. The Drugs Controller General of India, gave the authorization use emergency for the Sputnik V vaccine. while that of Covaxin is Rs 1,410 per dose, for private COVID-19 Vaccination Centres ,the maximum price of Covishieldhas been fixed at Rs 780 per…