Nellore (Andhra Pradesh) [India], July 20 (ANI): Andhra Pradesh irrigation minister P Anil Kumar visited the Nellore Government General Hospital (GGH) on Sunday to inquire about facilities made for COVID-19 patients.
Bengaluru (Karnataka) [India], July 19 (ANI): Karnataka Health Department said that it has engaged Swasth, a health consortium to provide remote home isolation monitoring services to asymptomatic or mildly symptomatic COVID patients in the state.
Guntur (Andhra Pradesh) [India], July 19 (ANI): A body of a COVID-19 positive patient was found on a road in the Sattenapalli town of Guntur district where he died while waiting for more than an hour for an autorickshaw to take him to the hospital on Sunday.
New Delhi [India], July 19 (ANI): The Drugs Controller General of India (DCGI) has asked for a clarification from Glenmark Pharmaceuticals regarding its alleged "false claims" on the utilisation of anti-viral FabiFlu (favipiravir) on COVID-19 patients with comorbidities.
Hyderabad (Telangana) [India], July 19 (ANI): BJP Hyderabad Unit President Ramchander Rao on Sunday criticized the ruling party for the over 2,000 COVID patients, who had been tested at various hospitals and cited as "missing".
Lucknow (Uttar Pradesh) [India], July 19 (ANI): Samajwadi Party on Sunday said that the Uttar Pradesh government has allowed exorbitant rates to prevail for patients undergoing quarantine in hotels and that the latter should bear the expenses for the patients.
Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], July 19 (ANI): The Mumbai Crime Branch on Sunday said that seven people were arrested for alleged involvement in the black-marketing of Remdisvir, the drug being used for the treatment of hospitalised COVID-19 patients.
Patna (Bihar) [India], July 19 (ANI): The Bihar Health Department has written to all chief medical officers in the State asking them to arrange paid isolation facilities at hotels for frontline workers including doctors (asymptomatic patients) if they don't have proper facilities for home is
Washington D.C. [USA], July 19 (ANI): Metabolic syndrome increases the risk of severe disease from a viral infection, according to a review of the literature performed by a team of researchers from St. Jude Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences and the University of Tennessee Health Science
Bradford [UK], July 19 (ANI): As per a recent study, people with early-stage glaucoma see the contrast of visible objects in a very similar way to people without the condition.
Lucknow (Uttar Pradesh) [India], July 19 (ANI): Uttar Pradesh Principal Health Secretary Amit Mohan Prasad has written to district collectors, asking them to transform at least one hotel in every district of the state into a COVID care centre for patients with very mild or no symptoms.
Rio de Janeiro [Brazil], July 19(ANI): With the coronavirus cases crossing two million mark in the world's second-worst hit nation by the pandemic, the Brazilian hospitals are struggling to deal with the influx of COVID 19 patients.