Long Covid most prevalent in patients with severe SARS-CoV-2 infection
Long Covid affected majorly people who had a severe Covid-19 infection, finds a study.
Long Covid affected majorly people who had a severe Covid-19 infection, finds a study.
Presiding over a meeting on the preventive measures against Covid-19, Anil Vij said it has been made mandatory for all health workers in the state to wear masks.
What has become a matter of further worry is that the rising trajectory infection shows no sign of subsiding and continues to maintain an upward trend in Khordha and Cuttack districts- contributing towards 62% of daily infection in the last 24 hours.
Meanwhile, the coastal State on Wednesday logged 887 COVID-19 fresh cases at 1.29% Test Positivity Rate (TPR) in the last 24 hours with the tally mounting up to 10,03,210, while the cumulative death toll reached 7,562 with 69 fresh fatalities, according to State’s COVID dashboard portal.
A record number of 4, 02,434 people were inoculated yesterday taking the doses of vaccine administered so far1, 24, 91,857.
The State’s recovery rate currently stands at 91.03% with as many as 7,56,641 cured of the disease so far. Odisha currently has 71,312 active cases, which account for 8.58% of total positive cases registered in the State.
It may be recalled here that the annual high school certificate (HSC) or the matriculation examination which was scheduled to be held on 3 May were earlier cancelled by the State government with the unabated COVID-19 surge.
The rural areas have reported 57% of total positive cases in the current month of May while around 51% of the total cases were detected in rural areas in April.
Social media, particularly, WhatsApp , is abuzz with magic remedies. Remedies vary from the queer to the eccentric, to the plain nauseating ~that regular saline nasal wash will prevent virus from entering the lungs and eliminate them from the nasopharynx, that Vitamin D supplements will improve immunity and prevent Covid-19 infection and that drinking whiskey frequently will kill the virus.
Ayush 64, a poly herbal formulation developed by the Central Council for Research in Ayurvedic Sciences (CCRAS), Ministry of Ayush is useful in the treatment of asymptomatic, mild and moderate COVID-19 infection as an adjunct to standard care.
