The 73-year-old man, who was found infected with Omicron in genome sequencing and who had tested negative for the infection twice, died in a Udaipur hospital on December 31, Union healyh ministry said.
Two hostels of the institution were sealed on Thursday, after 66 medical students had tested positive.
If ignored, it could also lead to permanent kidney damage and other complications, says Dr Santosh Patil.
Australian all-rounder Mitchell Marsh was hospitalised after testing positive for COVID-19 in a second RT-PCR test along with two support staff, causing fear and panic among rest of the Delhi Capitals squad in Mumbai on Monday.
Experts, however, have raised concern over the decision, saying the move is akin to treating symptoms instead of the underlying causes.
African swine fever has been reported from two farms at Mananthavady in Kerala's Wayanad district, officials said on Friday.
The charge sheet was committed to sessions court in Kathua which has fixed January 24 as the next date of hearing in the case.
Scientists at the CSIR-Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology in Hyderabad have found prominently a different variant of SARS-CoV-2 in southern parts of India, a top official of the institute said on Thursday.
We often ignore certain symptoms which our body presents from time to time. Sometimes these can disappear on their own, while at other times they may indicate something more serious -- the nesting of cancer cells in our body.
According to Kota police and district administration records, at least 14 students studying in coaching centres in the city committed suicide this year.
FIFA president Gianni Infantino has tested positive for COVID-19, global soccer's governing body said on Tuesday.
Dr Mishra further explained the effect of hybrid immunity on the vaccinated population and said that it is likely to give protection to people along with the Indian vaccines administered.
The 34-year-old said she didn't experience any severe symptoms of the dreaded virus but it was difficult staying away from her son.
Gowda joins the list of central ministers like Amit Shah, Nitin Gadkari and Dharmendra Pradhan, who had tested positive for COVID-19.
The 23-year-old, who has suffered nine previous concussions, is expected to be among the contenders to open the batting against England with David Warner.
Kiran More has tested negative thrice in RT-PCR tests after completing his isolation.
The guidelines stated that systemic oral steroids are not indicated in mild cases and if the symptoms (persistent fever, worsening cough etc.) persist beyond seven days, the treating doctor should be consulted for treatment with low-dose oral steroids.
Mike Pompeo has said that among the dozens of world leaders he met as the United States Secretary of State he found the 'most unpleasant' was Chinese President Xi Jinping, who threatened to stop sending PPE kits to America if it kept asking for accountability from Beijing on COVID-19.
While Brijlal Khabri, former BSP MP from Jalaun, is UP Congress Committee chairman, former UP cabinet minister and Mayawati's once close confidant Naseemuddin Siddiqui heads the party's state media department. Completing the ex-BSP troika, Nakul Dubey, former UP cabinet minister in the Mayawati dispensation (2007-12), is one of the six UP Congress regional presidents. He is reckoned among the most active of the three.
Days after it faced nationwide anti-government protests against its stringent zero-Covid policy, China in a major shift of its coronavirus response policies has announced that it will scrap quarantine for international travellers from January 8 as it reopens its borders and comes out of international isolation after nearly three years.
The case has been detected in the US state of California, Top Medical Adviser Anthony Fauci was quoted as saying by CNN.
The 92-year-old singer tested positive for Covid with mild symptoms and was admitted on January 8 to Mumbai's Breach Candy Hospital.
The country also reported 3,397 fresh COVID-19 cases, including 169 from dormitories for migrant workers.
Till date eight cases of the disease have been detected in India, out of which five have foreign travel history, the minister of health and family welfare said.
Lumpy Skin Disease has spread in more than a dozen states including Gujarat, Rajasthan, Punjab and Haryana.
A woman contact of an Omicron case in Rajasthan has been found COVID-19 positive in Delhi and is being shifted to the Lok Nayak Hospital, officials said on Friday.
As Kerala reeled under a daily increase of nearly 30,000 cases of COVID-19, the deadly Nipah virus has come as another thorn in its side, prompting the state to further heighten the alertness of its health machinery to prevent an outbreak of a different infection.
'However, the importance of children in transmitting the virus remains uncertain,' the scientists cautioned in the study. 'Coronaviruses are a large family of viruses that can cause infection and disease in animals, capable of rapid mutation and recombination, leading to novel viruses that can spread from animals to humans,' they said.
According to a report on the ICC website, it was a bouncer from South African fast bowler Shabnim Ismail which hit her, leaving Mandhana visibly shaken.
'The Khalistanis get bulk of the money from abroad.' 'Where did Amritpal's Mercedes come from, which costs well over Rs 60 lakhs?' 'Where does his fleet of vehicles come from?' 'Local Punjabis can certainly not contribute this kind of money.'
Amid growing concerns over the spurt in COVID-19 cases in China and some other countries, Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya said the focus is to ensure that no unknown variant of the virus enters India and at the same time there is no impediment to travelling.
'There will be ups and downs, and we have to plan how we live with it now.'
Dimple Yadav's husband and SP chief Akhilesh Yadav is currently on a two-day campaign yatra from Mainpuri to Etah.
More than 50,000 officials have been deployed for the counting of votes on Thursday in the five states where assembly polls were held recently.
Dr Praveen Kulkarni, senior cardiologist at Global Hospital, Mumbai explains why youngsters need to be careful about their lifestyle to prevent hypertension.
Nick Kyrgios said he pulled out of the Sydney Tennis Classic after testing positive for COVID-19
In a letter to the principal health secretary of Maharashtra that was also marked to all states and Union Territories (UTs), the Union Health Ministry said this surge is of particular concern from the public health point of view.
Robert O'Brien is the highest-ranking official in the Trump's administration known to have tested positive for COVID-19.
AC Milan said coach Stefano Pioli is showing no symptoms, is in quarantine at home and that Saturday's training session had been cancelled.
Doctors said the decision was a medical blunder.
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