London, May 18 (KMS): The Covid variant first detected in India is set to be the dominant strain in the UK within days, experts have said, with the government and health teams struggling to contain cases, which have risen by more than 75% since Thursday. With the rapid spread of …
Read More »Indian doctors, trained abroad, forced to stand by as COVID sweeps nation
Guwahati (India), May 18 (KMS): Some 90,000 Indian doctors armed with medical degrees from Russia, China and Ukraine are urging the government to put them to work in the battle against COVID-19 instead of standing idly by, waiting for local licences. Nowhere in the world has been hit harder by …
Read More »Feature: Entire families’ wiped out, anger grows as Covid-19 engulfs rural India
Sudhi Ranjan, Sen Bibhudatta Pradhan, Shruti Srivastava & Ruth Pollard After devastating India’s biggest cities, the latest Covid-19 wave is now ravaging rural areas across the world’s second-most populous country. And most villages have no way to fight the virus. In Basi, about 1.5 hours from the capital New Delhi, …
Read More »Huge Drop In India’s COVID-19 Cases Is ‘Misleading’: Experts
New Delhi, May 18 (KMS): India’s COVID-19 cases have seen a significant drop the past weeks, with Mumbai reporting 70% fewer cases after becoming the epicenter of a devastating outbreak, but experts argue that the number is misleading. India has been hard hit by the novel coronavirus in recent months, …
Read More »Staff member at NZ High Commission in India dies of Covid
New Delhi, May 18 (KMS): New Zealand’s Foreign Affairs Minister Nanaia Mahuta says a long-serving staff member at the New Zealand High Commission in India has died of Covid-19. Mahuta said it was a local staffer, not a New Zealander, who passed away on May 16 in an Indian hospital. …
Read More »Ex-chief of Indian Medical Association dies of COVID-19
New Delhi, May 18 (KMS): KK Aggarwal, a former president of the Indian Medical Association and a prominent face of the medical fraternity in the country, died last night of Covid. The Padma Shri award winner had been on ventilator support for the past few days at Delhi’s All India …
Read More »COVID-19: Vaccine shortage hits Kashmir valley amid rising cases
Srinagar, May 18 (KMS): While India is grappling with growing COVID positive cases, Jammu and Kashmir is also witnessing huge increase in the cases as well the COVID related deaths. And the government has said that to beat this second deadly wave, vaccination is the only way out. However, Kashmir …
Read More »India evacuates thousands, suspends COVID-19 vaccinations in preparations for cyclone
New Delhi, May 18 (KMS): A powerful cyclone roaring in the Arabian Sea was moving toward India’s western coast as authorities tried to evacuate hundreds of thousands of people and suspended COVID-19 vaccinations in one state. Cyclone Tauktae, which had already killed 12 people, was expected to make landfall on …
Read More »Feature: Under a tree, one Indian village cares for its COVID-19 sick
Danish Siddiqui In a village in northern India engulfed by COVID-19, the sick lie on cots under a tree, glucose drips hanging from a branch. Cows graze all around, while syringes and empty medicine packets are strewn on the ground. There is no doctor or health facility in Mewla Gopalgarh …
Read More »DAK sounds alert over black fungus in COVID patients
Srinagar, May 17 (KMS): In Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir, the Doctors Association Kashmir (DAK) on Monday said a rare but deadly fungal infection called mucormycosis is infecting Covid-19 patients. DAK President and influenza expert Dr Nisar-ul-Hassan in a statement issued in Srinagar, sounding alert, said if left untreated …
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