The second wave of the Covid-19 pandemic is receding. Rules and regulations are being relaxed and the country’s economy is again coming back to pace. But healthcare experts have cautioned that India should be prepared for the third wave. Additionally, the new delta plus variant of the virus ...
Mucormycetes, the group of fungi that cause mucormycosis, are present throughout the environment, particularly in soil and in association with decaying organic matter, such as leaves, compost piles, and animal dung.Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Department of Health and Huma...
The Covid-19 variant that is spreading even now in India, after its massive outbreak, has proved to be devastating. World Health Organization’s (WHO) Chief Scientist Soumya Swaminathan lamented that India failed to read early signs of this variant and now it is taking off vertically. Death o...
The havoc that the second wave of the pandemic has wreaked across India is not only due to the disease’s high rates of transmission but also and possibly more importantly, on account of a scarcity of life-saving tools. Particularly, oxygen, which we have always taken for granted. At the...
Number of active Covid cases has been concerning the medical fraternity in India since March this year. India has recorded the highest single-day count of new cases in the world. But more than that, the severity of the new Covid strain is making them more anxious. The second wave of Covid is h...
China’s appetite for meat has started to decline as the country has possibly started to uphold the vegan revolution. Concerns over carbon emissions and food crises are being identified as the reason. Although China still consumes 28% of the world’s meat, including half of all pork, and boa...
The Associated Chambers of Commerce and Industry of India (ASSOCHAM) organised another edition of the webinar series on ‘Illness to Wellness’ campaign, themed around “Preventions and Treatment of Liver Ailments”. ASSOCHAM organised this webinar with an objective to cascade mass awarene...
In December 2019, while we were welcoming 2020, we never realised that the coming year would be a game-changer in all our lives. Let us now welcome the New Normal 2021. Early 2020, when the world came to a screeching halt due to Covid-19 - which unleashed a catastrophe of unprecedented proport...
Recently, a new strain of coronavirus has been detected in eight European countries. Hans Kluge, WHO's Regional Director for Europe has stressed on the need to boost the protective measures and stated that the new strain seems to be spreading among younger age groups, unlike the previous strai...
The spread of Covid 19 has witnessed an exponential growth in cases, which in turn has led to severe restrictions on the functioning of the global economy. This is primarily due to a unique feature of the Covid 19 virus and the infectious cycle, where in the initial three to five-day period of infec...