-The Hindu They also account for 87% of total deaths, says Health Ministry. Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu, Delhi, Telangana, Gujarat, Uttar Pradesh, Andhra Pradesh and West Bengal account for 85.5% of the active case load and 87% of the total deaths in India, the Health Ministry said on Saturday. At present, 15 Central teams of public health experts, epidemiologists, clinicians and an officer of the rank of Joint Secretary have been deployed to give...
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AYUSH Ministry asks Ramdev to explain Covid-19 medicine claim, stop advertising Coronil, Swasari Vati and Anu Taila
-The Indian Express The ministry has also requested the Uttarakhand State Licensing Authority to provide copies of the license and product approval details of the Ayurvedic medicines which the company has claimed will treat Covid-19. Yoga guru Ramdev’s Patanjali Ayurved Ltd on Tuesday launched what they claimed was the first Ayurvedic medicine to cure Covid-19. However, the AYUSH Ministry has sought details about the medicine and has directed Patanjali and Ramdev to...
More »Village in Maharashtra’s Uran flattens the curve with 99% recoveries -Raina Assainar
-The Hindu With extensive screening, lockdown, COVID-19 hotbed Karanja brings down the cases from 134 to one Navi Mumbai has reported more than 4,000 COVID-19 cases, with a Recovery Rate of around 57%. But in the adjoining Uran, one village has managed to bring its Recovery Rate to 99.2%, with only one patient currently under treatment. Karanja village, which has eight padas and a population of around 10,000, had reported as many as...
More »Clutching at straws -TK Rajalakshmi
-Frontline.in The government uses specious arguments on COVID deaths and recoveries in comparison with other countries to cover up for its ill-thought-out strategies. On June 1, while briefing the media, the Joint Secretary (Health), Lav Agarwal, presented several PowerPoint graphs showing how India’s handling of the COVID-19 pandemic was on a par with, if not better than, many countries vis-a-vis mortality and Recovery Rates. This was on a day when the number...
More »How covid-19 locked out women from jobs -Rukmini S
-Livemint.com From an already low base, women’s employment has fallen further, and a recovery will be difficult A clutch of early studies on the impact of the lockdown on employment is showing that women’s employment could be particularly badly hit. Given India’s record low female workforce participation rates, growing child care demands, and a looming recession, researchers fear that women could be increasingly shut out of the productive economy. To estimate the impact...
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