-The Hindu Maharashtra, Gujarat, West Bengal with most number of cases among staff nurses Maharashtra, Gujarat and West Bengal have the maximum number of COVID positive staff nurses in the country and also the highest Fatality Rate, the Trained Nurses Association of India (TNAI) said on Thursday. TNAI, the largest nursing association in the country, released data for the first time since the beginning of the pandemic, indicating that 509 nursing staff were...
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Centre wants states to focus on keeping Covid-19 Fatality Rates low -Saubhadra Chatterji
-Hindustan Times A detailed action plan for this purpose has already been chalked out, they added, and Prime Minister Narendra Modi may even raise the issue in his meeting with chief ministers on Tuesday and Wednesday. New Delhi: The Narendra Modi government wants states that are seeing a large number of Covid-19 cases not to lose sight of the main objective in the rush of numbers -- keeping the death rate, or...
More »Government, experts differ on low death-rate reason -GS Mudur
-The Telegraph Centre says good management, researchers not so sure India’s death rate among coronavirus disease patients is among the lowest in the world, the health ministry said on Tuesday, attributing it to early detection and clinical management, but health researchers cautioned that reasons remain unclear. The health ministry, releasing comparative figures, said the country’s case Fatality Rate — the number of deaths divided by the number of cases — is 2.8 per...
More »Badly hit to very good: How Tamil Nadu rode the Covid-19 crisis -Arun Janardhanan
-The Indian Express With a similar population as Gujarat, it has nearly half its cases and one-eighth its deaths. Just five-six districts are now reporting cases, while Coimbatore, which once had the most patients, has had no fresh cases for about a week. Chennai: One of the worst-hit states around mid-April, with the largest numbers after Maharashtra and with 37 of its 38 districts reporting coronavirus, Tamil Nadu has since turned a...
More »Covid-19: Kerala shows the way -AM Jigeesh
-The Hindu Business Line Boasting a determined political leadership, Kerala has set a record of sorts in flattening the Covid-19 curve On January 18, KK Shailaja — “Shailaja Teacher”, as she is popularly known for her no-nonsense, science teacher demeanour — summoned a meeting of the Kerala health department, a ministry she had efficiently steered through unprecedented floods in 2018-19 and the outbreak of Nipah virus. There was no cause for alarm...
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