COVID-19

IIOJK records one more COVID death, 134 fresh positive cases  

Srinagar, July 20 (KMS): In Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJK), one more person died due to COVID-19. With the reporting of one more Covid death from Chest Disease Hospital Srinagar, the death toll in territory has reached to 4,571. Meanwhile, 134 fresh positive cases have pushed the tally …

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Covid 3rd wave may hit India by August end: Expert

New Delhi, July 18 (KMS): The country’s well-known infectious disease expert, Dr. Samiran Panda has said that by the end of August, the third knock may come in the country. Dr. Samiran Panda, Head of the Department of Epidemiology and Infectious Diseases in the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR), …

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India records 38079 new COVID-19 cases, 560 deaths

New Delhi, July 17 (KMS): India recorded 560 deaths in the last 24 hours, taking the fatality count to 413,123. The country recorded 38,079 new coronavirus infections in a single day, pushing the total tally of COVID-19 cases to 31,064,908, according to the Union Health Ministry data updated on Saturday. …

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India’s Covid vaccine rollout hit by hesitancy and supply snags

New Delhi, July 15 (KMS): India’s Covid vaccination rollout has continued to falter due to supply shortages and vaccine hesitancy, casting doubt on the government’s pledge to vaccinate the entire population by December. A number of states, including the capital, Delhi, said they had run out of vaccine stocks this …

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UP reports first case of Kappa Covid-19 variant, patient dies

New Delhi, July 09 (KMS): Indian state of Uttar Pradesh has detected two cases of Kappa variant of Covid-19. As per Indian media, a 66-year-old man Uttar Pradesh’s Sant Kabir Nagar, who tested positive for Kappa variant in UP’s Sant Kabir Nagar has died. Officials said that the man had …

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Amid COVID-19, 14 Zika virus cases confirmed in Kerala

New Delhi, July 09 (KMS): Cases of Zika virus in Kerala went up to 14 on Friday with India’s National Institute of Virology (NIV) confirming 13 more cases. Following this, the State has been put on alert. Among the infected was a 24-year-old pregnant woman who was diagnosed with the …

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American journal claims second COVID wave proved deadlier than first wave for pregnant women in India

New Delhi, July 09 (KMS):  More number of pregnant women with severe Covid-19 infection requiring ICU admissions were admitted during the second wave as compared to first wave, according to a new study, ‘Pregnancy Outcomes and Maternal Complications during the Second Wave of Covid-19 in India’, published in the Journal …

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After Black Fungus, cases of ‘Bone Death’ reported in India

Mumbai, July 06(KMS) India, which experienced a COVID-19 surge in April-May, is now contending with an upsurge of rare post-COVID complications. Last month, it reported hundreds of black fungus cases among adults as well as young children. At least 19 cases of avascular necrosis (AVN) or death of bone tissues …

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Delta variant to become dominant strain of COVID-19 in coming months: WHO

New York, July 02 (KMS): The World Health Organization has said the Delta variant of COVID-19, the strain first found in India, is now present in nearly 100 countries as per conservative estimates, and warned that in the coming months the highly transmissible strain will become the dominant variant of …

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Free COVID kit scam hits IIOJK

Jammu, July 01 (KMS): Even as the authorities in Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJK) had announced that COVID kits comprising life-saving items would be distributed free of cost among the patients, the public complaints suggest that it could be another scam as the affected didn’t get deliverance of …

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