COVID-19 Mutation India govt says Delta Plus is 'variant of concern', warns 3 states

The News Cover: India as the devastating second wave of the coronavirus, continues to decline the health ministry. has now classified the delta plus variant of the coronavirus as a variant of concern the delta plus variant is a new mutant version of the delta strain it has been found in nearly 40 cases in the Indian states of Maharashtra, Kerala, and Madhya Pradesh, while the original delta variants were first discovered in India last year. the mutants version was first identified in Europe this march the union health ministry on Tuesday categorized. 

the new variant as a variant of concern and directed state authorities to take up immediate containment, measures in these three states to curb the spread considered to be highly infectious. and fast-spreading delta plus variant, has sparked concerns in both India and elsewhere experts, now fear that the new variants could potentially trigger a third wave in the country. if not contained the state of Maharashtra which has reported most of these delta plus cases is currently bracing for a deadly outbreak, the state is collecting data like travel history and vaccination status of the affected individuals to track and trace the variant meanwhile the variance has also been detected in nine other countries including china us the UK and Russia.

 

Nobody To Enter Goa Without Negative COVID-19 Report: Bombay High Court

The News Cover: goa is also staring at a crisis. with a high positivity rate with 26 patients, dying at agua hospital on the goa bench. of the Bombay high court pulled up the hospital authorities. a crisis in the making an overcrowded hospital in goa. where patients are lying on the floor because there aren't enough beds. and a positivity rate that touched 50 percent, just a couple of days ago meaning every other person that is tested in goa is Covid positive. after goals health minister vishwajit rani, announced that as many as 26 patients died in goa medical college, in the early hours of Tuesday, because of a lack of oxygen. 

the goa bench. of Bombay high court on Wednesday pulled up. the dean of the hospital saying enough is enough, sometimes the authorities say there is enough oxygen. but there are logistical constraints sometimes, they say there is not enough oxygen available, for additional cylinders goa, chief minister Pramod savant wearing a PPE suit visited the hospital, to take stock. where he spoke with doctors' healthcare staff, and even interacted with patients, admitted, that there are difficulties a population of nearly 2 million has a positivity rate of 41 this after recording a massive 51 percent just last week. 

the numbers giving a sorry picture, as of the 12th of may the state recorded, a little over 2865 cases from a testing sample, of 6920 the debts recorded were 70 a little lower than the 75 recorded on the 11th of May. the recovery rate is 72 percent the ineffective rate is coming down. it was almost touched 51 percent at a time and the last two-three days. from 41 then it has come to 35 yesterday. after much criticism a delayed response, from the government goa is under 15 days of curfew, with this the administration is hoping that the situation will improve in the coming days, with anil Patel in goa and poor vaccines.
 

"India Squandered Early COVID-19 Success," Says Medical Journal Lancet

The News Cover: India could see a staggering 1 million deaths, from covid-19. by the 1st of august, this is according to an editorial in the British medical journal Landsat, and if that outcome were to happen. they say that it would be the Modi government, that is responsible for India. squandered its early successes in controlling covid-19. the editorial says until April the government's covid-19 task force had not met in months. 

the lancer editorial quoted the institute for health metrics, and evaluation, and independent global health research organization. and giving its projection for this one million death by the first of august. the science journal, says that India must now restructure its response the success of that effort will depend on the government owning up. to its mistakes providing responsible leadership, and implementing a public health response. 

that has science at its heart it says the government must increase vaccine supply have an equitable distribution system. that covid not just urban but also rural and poorer citizens it says the government must publish accurate data on a timely matter saying that. at times Modi government has seemed more intent on removing criticism on Twitter, than trying to control the pandemic.

 

Third Wave Inevitable: Grim Warning From Government's Scientific Adviser

 

The News Cover: well the government's scientific advisor in a press briefing just a little while back, has warned of the third wave, of covid. which he says is inevitable phase three is inevitable given, the high levels of the circulating viruses, what dr Raghavan, has said it's not clear on what time scales this phase three, with will occur this is terrible news given. the fact that India is just in the middle of phase two right now. 

and we are all suffering immensely, we should prepare for new waves, the government has said this on the surge in Covid. they've also spoken about the so-called India double mutant, it's called the b1.617 variant, which essentially has certain features which enable antibody. escape in other words the antibodies in other words. it's easier for higher transmissibility people, get infected much faster.

 and the vaccines themselves perhaps are not as efficacious. as they are in the original strain, and this is now believed to be something that is resulting in a large number of cases across the country. this has been confirmed by the health ministry today. two months after clinical information suggesting, the spread of this variant called b1.617 was reported by doctors in Maharashtra. 

and elsewhere coronavirus, to go from here a phase 3 is inevitable given the high levels of circulating virus. but it's not clear on what time scale this phase 3 will occur hopefully incrementally. but we should prepare for new waves previous infections and vaccines. will cause adaptive pressure on the virus. for new kinds, of changes which try to escape it and therefore we should be prepared by scientifically to take care of that.

Goa Deputy CM Dances at a Wedding Function

 

The News Cover: In Goa as well as across India, there is a severe spike of COVID infections, leading to a shortage of hospital beds and medicines. The Goa CM Pramod Sawant, worried by the increasing rate of infections, said functions will have a limit on the number of attendees and duration. If these guidelines are not followed he said authorities would stop the functions. 

People said this was an excellent movie and it was something that should have been done months ago to contain the infections. Then this video emerged. Have a look. In this video, Deputy Chief Minister Manohar Ajgaonkar was seen dancing with family at a Haldi function. No one was following the rules and hardly anyone wore masks. 

After the video went viral Ajgaonkar said, only limited friends and relatives were invited to the function. Residents of Goa were infuriated over the blatant disregard of the rules. A man from Goa's Capital Panjim said, "The deputy CM did not follow rules but the common man is forced to follow rules. There is a clear partiality for the common man and politicians. Those who break the rules must be put behind bars."

Journalist Rohit Sardana & Actor Bikramjeet Kanwarpal Pass Away

 

The News Cover: The second wave of the COVID-19 virus has proven to be very dangerous. The rising number of infections has led to many deaths. Everyone is very overwhelmed and wants a day when there are no death reports in the news. 

Sadly this is not the case. There have been many celebrities who have passed away as well. Renowned TV journalist Rohit Sardana succumbed to the deadly COVID-19 infection on 30th April. He was only 41 years old and everyone was stunned by his early demise. Nobody expected him to die so young. 

People were devasted by the news. Sardana's colleagues said that he died of cardiac arrest while he was also COVID-19 infected at the same time. Sardana had worked for many years with Zee News. In Zee News, he hosted the famous show 'Taal Thok Ke', a debate program. In 2017 he joined Aaj Tak and hosted the debate show ''Dangal.'' Sardana was a recipient of the 2018 Ganesh Vidyarthi Puraskar Award. 

He will be dearly missed. PM Narendra Modi, Union Home Minister Amit Shah, and Congress spokesperson Randeep Singh Surjewala too expressed their deepest condolences. On 1st May, actor Bikramjeet Kanwarpal passed away due to COVID complications. He was a well-known TV serial & film actor. Sadly he breathed his last at the age of 52. Bikramjeet was a part of the Indian Army and post-retirement, tried his luck in acting in 2003. 

He then went on to become very famous. He has been a part of many popular TV shows & films. He starred in films like Page 3, Rocket Singh, Aarakshan Murder 2, 2 States and many others. He was last seen in Disney Plus Hotstar’s popular web series Special Ops. Many celebrities took to social media to mourn the demise.

Covid news: Grieving families in India fight doctors as beds line up inside crowded hospitals

 

The News Cover: first the grief, now the fury this was the alarming scene outside of Delhi hospital. as the family of a 62-year-old woman vented their anger at medical staff for not admitting her she died because the health system has collapsed into chaos footage filmed for us inside one hospital by a doctor shows how desperate. the situation has become the gasps and groans of seriously. 

ill-covid patients waiting in the corridor here at least they are getting oxygen many more outside are dying we are weeping we are crying we are helpless sometimes when we are not getting resources it is not the problem of doctors are doing their duty 24 into seven if oxygen is not supplying in the hospital. is it the fault of the doctor is not the fault doctor there is precious little time for the rituals of death and mourning at the crematorium the bodies, are arriving every minute of every hour many think the toll is far greater than the more. 

than 3.000 per day, officially acknowledged those who have the grim task of transporting the dead or dying are themselves taking huge risks Nitish Kumar earns. a meager wage, from families who pay him to try and find a hospital bed or crematorium, and he's reached breaking point so great is the burden that flower beds are being turned into funeral pyres in the parks as India struggles. to cope with this great wave of loss cremations, here are up tenfold since the beginning of the month are even beginning to run out of wood these searing images should act as a warning. to us, all that covid-19 can return with vicious rapidity, to turn a crisis into a nightmare down rivers.

India records 320,000 new Covid cases as foreign help arrives

 

The News Cover: you can sense the desperation just to be in this crowd is to take a chance with covid but in India oxygen, is the difference between life, and death, they have waited for hours. and most will wait, in vain here supplies, are soon exhausted and the gates are closed. and I have just lost in November my father-in-law, and on 23rd April,l I have lost my grandfather-in-law, yes, I have been facing two days. 

I cannot lose my father, any more salmon scours the shops, his sister aunty, and uncle, are all sick at home there's no oxygen. not even the basics he says I've searched everywhere, from a government accused of complacency. there is now urgency so a train thunder's past loaded with oxygen trucks. and the first consignment, of aid, arrived from Britain ventilators and machines, that will extract oxygen. from the air tonight the "united states" promised to send vaccines to a country. 

which once boasted, it would supply. the world now medicine is in short supply. here and priced well beyond most pockets a self-confident nation, on the rise feels suddenly crushed, they were not prepared for anything our health minister, used to say we are prepared our prime minister used, to say we will fight this corona and you are seeing the funerals. you see many peoples are dying, dying the mortuary even the dead. must wait their turn Jitendra Singh shunting is a volunteer on Covid front line. 

whose life is now dominated entirely by death. the bodies he collects those who've died at home. often members of the same family aren't tallied in official figures his work, is never done, and his phone is never silent, another call, another death, another funeral, to a range today, he will pick up more than a hundred bodies. they offer each grieving family. the rights and rituals of death according to custom no matter. how often covid kills it is never routine!

covid -19 crisis news: Ground Report VS TV Fake News Reality. The News Cover

 

The News Cover: So there is no access to information. Are you satisfied with the COVID-19 situation portrayed on the TV? No, I am not satisfied at all. You see for yourself here, you’ll only see dead patients. The backyard is worse. 

Why do you think the TV is not highlighting the situation? Because everything is collapsed, sir. Nothing is proper. If the government knew about the pandemic, why didn’t they pay any attention? The government is doing rallies. 

They’ll play petty politics. But people are dying here, right? The common man is dying here. People who have money and connections they are getting saved. What is the government doing? NOTHING. They spend in useless projects. 

They made Sardar Patel's Statue... If they had made hospitals instead, so many lives would have been saved in this situation. If the BJP didn’t make the house that they made for themselves and instead made hospitals, the money wouldn’t have gone to waste. 

These projects are useless for us now. No oxygen cylinders at one hospital and no beds in the other. People are running from one hospital to another. We can clearly see the flaws in the infrastructure. We cannot give excuses for lack of money. 

If you remember, on 27th March PM CARES fund was launched. The donation amounted to 3000 crores on the first day itself. But political parties are busy in rallies. You can notice the attitude of the ministers. Corpses are falling, and they’re celebrating.

Covid Patient's Body Allegedly Not Given To Family, Falls Off Ambulance

 

The News Cover: Now families of people who lost their battle to coronavirus, at a hospital in Madhya Pradesh. are alleging that bodies of their loved ones are handed, over to them a morbid video from a government hospital in vidisha district, 57 kilometers from the state capital Bhopal.

describes the horror that grieving families are facing in this photo on your screens, an ambulance, which has the body of a coveted victim is seen leaving the hospital, and just as it leaves the gates, and takes a turn the body is out of the bus. and it falls on the road. as you can see on your screens, at the moment the driver of the vehicle reportedly panicked and stopped, the ambulance.

Corona spreads more than sneezing and coughing, explains how germs float in the air, Lancet explains

 

The News Cover: Corona Airborne. Can float in air particles. The Lancet, one of the world's most popular medical journals, reports. Airborne means coronavirus that can be spread by airborne particles or aerosols. Now the question may arise how the virus spreads in the aerosol? Does this mean that the infected patient sneezes or coughs or water droplets from the mouth or what is called a droplet spreads the virus? That's not always the case, researchers say. But the virus will not spread from the sneeze and cough of the corona patient. The researchers explained in detail how the virus can spread in the air and how the infection can enter the body. He also gave guidelines for staying healthy. 

The Lancet talks about how the virus spreads in the air.First of all, scientists have been saying for so long that viral strains may be mixed in the water particles coming out of the human nose and mouth. When these water particles come in contact with air, they are filled with water vapor to form larger water particles. This is called air droplet. Floating on this droplet can spread viral strains. 

Researchers at The Lancet say that it is not possible for large water droplets or droplets to survive in the air for long periods of time. Because, under the influence of gravity, any heavy object cannot float for long. So it is wrong to think that the large droplets that are formed due to sneezing or coughing will spread the virus far and wide. Second, this time the question may be how the virus is floating so far? Researchers say that viral strains are spread by making small particles that are floating in the aerosol or air base. Aerosol is a small particle, its diameter is not more than 5 micrometers. So it is possible for the virus particles to spread far and wide by floating in these particles. 

To put it simply, Even if you are more than 6 feet away from an infected patient, the virus particles can still float in the air and enter through your nose or mouth. Just as polluted particles floating in the air enter our bodies every day with our breathing, so is this matter. According to scientists, SARS-COV-2 virus particles can spread in aerosols, which means that they can enter the body with the air. So we need to be much more careful. Wearing a face-mask is mandatory, it is very good to have a face-shield or face-cover in the crowd. Mutual distance must be maintained and cleanliness must be observed. If the infected patient's sneezing and coughing does not spread? 

The Lancet report says it also spreads, but not over long distances. If you are very close to an infected patient, water droplets or droplets of the virus can enter the body. These droplets have a diameter of about 100 micrometers, cannot float in the air for long, Fell to the ground. Rather than talk about it, small aerosols can last longer. Researchers say that if asymptomatic patients do not have symptoms of sneezing or coughing, then how is the infection spreading from them! The reason is this aerosol. Asymptomatic patients can spread 33-59% more infections. Talking, screaming, singing, etc. can spread more than the infection is spreading in the patient's sneeze. 

Tiny water droplets come out a lot when talking. By harboring them, virus particles can spread. This aerosol is also one of the reasons for the spread of infection among caged animals in zoos. It has also been observed that infected animals have been isolated, even after the infection has entered the body of an animal kept in a distant cage. This means that the virus is spread by airborne particles. Asymptomatic patients do not show symptoms of sneezing and coughing, then how the infection is spreading from them! The reason is this aerosol. 

Asymptomatic patients can spread 33-59% more infections. Talking, screaming, singing, etc. can spread more than the infection is spreading in the patient's sneeze. Tiny water droplets come out a lot when talking. By harboring them, virus particles can spread. This aerosol is also one of the reasons for the spread of infection among caged animals in zoos. It has also been observed that infected animals have been isolated, even after the infection has entered the body of an animal kept in a distant cage. 

This means that the virus is spread by airborne particles. Asymptomatic patients do not show symptoms of sneezing and coughing, then how the infection is spreading from them! The reason is this aerosol. Asymptomatic patients can spread 33-59% more infections. Talking, screaming, singing, etc. can spread more than the infection is spreading in the patient's sneeze. Tiny water droplets come out a lot when talking. By harboring them, virus particles can spread. This aerosol is also one of the reasons for the spread of infection among caged animals in zoos. 

It has also been observed that infected animals have been isolated, even after the infection has entered the body of an animal kept in a distant cage. This means that the virus is spread by airborne particles. From shouting, singing, etc. Tiny water droplets come out a lot when talking. By harboring them, virus particles can spread. This aerosol is also one of the reasons for the spread of infection among caged animals in zoos. It has also been observed that infected animals have been isolated, even after the infection has entered the body of an animal kept in a distant cage. 

This means that the virus is spread by airborne particles. From shouting, singing, etc. Tiny water droplets come out a lot when talking. By harboring them, virus particles can spread. This aerosol is also one of the reasons for the spread of infection among caged animals in zoos. It has also been observed that infected animals have been isolated, even after the infection has entered the body of an animal kept in a distant cage. This means that the virus is spread by airborne particles.

Scientists have given another important piece of information in the medical journal Lancet. The report says that the risk of contracting the virus is lower if you are in an open space from a closed room. Because the concentration of the virus is much higher in a closed room. If there are more people in the same room, the spread of the infection will increase. But if you stay in the open, the risk of infection will decrease. 

The risk of spreading the infection is also high in similar closed vehicles. And if the car runs AC, the infection can spread more quickly. Researchers say it's best to hang out in the open air rather than in a closed room all day. Then fresh air will enter the lungs. Even if the infection does enter, the virus particles will be inactivated by getting fresh oxygen from the environment. 

The risk of respiratory problems will not be so high. Researchers say Stay at home but keep the windows open. The higher the air circulation, the lower the density of the virus. But staying in a closed room all day will increase the risk of infection. And when out on the road, it is better to avoid contact. Virus particles can spread not only from an infected patient's clothes or used items, but also to any surface or smooth material. The infection can also spread from there. So we have to be careful in all aspects.

"Ten streams of evidence collectively support the hypothesis that #SARS-CoV-2 is transmitted primarily by the airborne route."

New Comment from @trishgreenhalgh, @kprather88, @jljcolorado, @zeynep, @dfisman, and Robert Schooley. #COVID19 https://t.co/2z8jLEcOPH

— The Lancet (@TheLancet) April 16, 2021

Gujarat news: Long wait at Gujarat & Chhattisgarh Struggle to Cremate COVID Patients

 

The News Cover: There is a spike in coronavirus infections in India and the mortality rate has increased too. India had a limited number of crematoriums as the mortality rate was low. Cremations have increased because of coronavirus infections, old age, and other health ailments. People have had to wait for 8-12 hours in a queue to cremate COVID patients. 

This is happening in Gujarat for the last 1 week. In Surat, Gujarat around 25 bodies were cremated simultaneously on wood pyres at night. Officials said, Hindus generally do not cremate the dead after sunset but because of the coronavirus, crematoriums are full and there are long queues. 

This is why 25 people were cremated simultaneously. Gujarat authorities have reopened defunct facilities to cremate the increasing number of dead in the state. Metal pyres that utilise less wood have been installed to speeden the cremation process by generating more heat. Another incident was reported in Chhattisgarh. 

A garbage truck which did not contain any trash, was used to ferry the bodies of patients who died of COVID-19 to the crematorium. How shocking! The workers were wearing PPE suits and transporting the bodies. The shocking incident is because of shortage of ambulance amidst the spike in cases.

Corona Update: India records 81,466 new cases, 469 deaths in last 24 hours

 

The News Cover: India continues to see a record daily surge in new covert 19 cases the country has recorded 81,400 plus new covid-19 cases and that in just the last 24 hours making it the highest daily rise in India in the last 6 months India's health ministry showed the total number of cases at 12.3 million only

 the united states and brazil have higher total cases than India vaccination drives have been intensified amid the recent surge and many states are considering imposing fresh restrictions to curb the movement of people the western state of Maharashtra has been the worst hit in India and reported over 43,000 new cases

it's highest since the pandemic began in March last year the state government has imposed a night curfew over the weekend but is also considering imposing stricter control measures infection numbers were also up in the states of Chhattisgarh, Karnataka, Punjab, Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Gujarat, and Madrid, with 469 new deaths, 

the country's death toll rose to 163 000 deaths meanwhile cricketing legend Sachin Tendulkar announced that he was hospitalized few days after testing positive for corvid he said in a tweet that he had been hospitalized as a precautionary measure