How Covid-19 took my father, my teacher away bit.ly/3fDVuEi
As the second wave hit close to home, Indian Express journalist recounts his days and nights in a #COVID19 ward as he watched his father slip away. His account narrates the pain of millions in India.
"It was May 1, my wife Chitra’s birthday. But my mind was in my hometown of Tarapur in Bihar’s Munger where my parents live. The previous night, I had video-called my father Sanjay Prasad Singh, a retired English teacher, and chided him for hiding his fever from me..."
"Like a parent who doesn’t want to burden his child,he downplayed everything, dismissing possibility of #COVID19. But I told his neighbour to get an #oximeter. Within two hours, reading slipped to 83. I was on the road, like countless others across the country, to get him a bed."
Here are some simple steps to follow when you use a pulse #oximeter indianexpress.com/article/lifest…
By the time I reached Mayaganj, my father had been given a bed. Masked and face-shielded, I entered his COVID ward. #COVID19 protocols lay in tatters across the floor: bit.ly/3fDVuEi
"Around 9.30 am, the monitor readings became highly erratic — the pulse climbed to 223, then dipped to 23. The doctors checked his pulse. The #oximeter reading was zero. The oxygen tubes were removed. My father was gone."
"The affable 'Sanjay Sir' of Tarapur had left. But this was not the way he, and many more like him, should have died — treated like untouchables in their final hours," writes @santoshchitra indianexpress.com/article/expres…

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24 May
An analysis of real-world data from the UK details the effectiveness of Pfizer & #AstraZeneca vaccines against two variants of the #SARSCoV2 coronavirus: one, denoted as B.1.1.7, with its origins in Kent, UK, and the second, denoted as B.1.617.2, that was first detected in India. Image
Indian public policy has massive interest in this information since the broader B.1.617 variant is expected to, if it has not already, become the dominant strain of the disease within the population in India.
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Efficacy data for interdose duration for some of the groups is:
2-dose efficacy with 12 weeks gap: 80%
The trial found that a single-dose had a similar efficacy for up to 90 days.
In addition to proving safety, the trial’s purpose was to establish efficacy of the two-dose regimen
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16 May
#Covid19 #COVID19India

As a nation counts — and also doesn’t count — its dead, as the wave enters villages, The Sunday Express profiles lives lost for the lack of oxygen and listens to what their survivors have to say.

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AC maintenance contractor Gurdeep Singh, 37, died on April 27 at New Medical College Hospital, Kota. He leaves behind his wife and a child who turns 2 on May 24.
#Covid19 “I am a nurse, but for my husband, I had to arrange remdesivir through a politician. He kept saying he didn’t want to die… ,”says his wife Maninder Kaur.

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15 May
In fact, much before the festive season in India, between September and October, we had ensured that banks, NBFCs and others reached out with liquidity, said Sitharaman on @ftlive

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@ftlive The Indian economy has been slowing, now at 5-6% range, and will need quite a bit of policy-change reforms, in a difficult world environment, to be successful in the decade ahead,” said Martin Wolf, Chief Economics Commentator, Financial Times on @ftlive

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@ftlive The panelists discussed the role of the state and investment climate for businesses, what an Atmanirbhar Bharat meant, what factors contributed to the slowing down of the economy, where the fault lines are and how the second wave will impact growth.

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14 May
All indications from the coronavirus numbers in India in the last two weeks suggest that the second wave of infections may already have reached a peak, or will peak in the next few days, but end may still be far away.
#ExpressExplained : bit.ly/3hunKvx

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After reaching a high of 4.14 lakh last Thursday, the daily cases has dropped significantly in the last 1 week. This is not happening for the first time. After crossing 4 lakh mark for the first time on April 30, the case count had gone down for a few days, before jumping again. Image
#Maharashtra, which at one point was contributing more than 60% of daily cases, certainly seems to be in a declining phase now. The decline in Maharashtra is likely to have the biggest impact on the national curve.
#COVID19
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14 May
Fact check: Drinking tea cannot prevent #COVID19

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While researchers have been studying the benefits of #greentea, Dr Vikas Maurya, director pulmonology, Fortis Hospital, New Delhi said,"Please don’t be under the misconception that if you have tea you are in any way safeguarded or protected against Covid; there is no guarantee.”
The only way to prevent contracting #COVID19 is by taking adequate precautions like wearing masks, sanitising hands and maintaining social distance, and ensuring that you get vaccinated as soon as possible, the doctor said indianexpress.com/article/lifest…
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13 May
The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) suggests a wait for 90 days from the day one tests positive for #COVID19 if he/she has not received the vaccine. Image
Leading vaccine scientist Dr #GagandeepKang said data from the UK shows there is 80% protection following a natural infection with the #SARSCoV2 virus. It is fine to even wait up to six months, she said.

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The second dose can be given eight weeks after the person tests positive for #COVID19 infection, according to Dr V Ravi, nodal officer for genetic confirmation of #SARSCoV2, Karnataka. The body starts producing antibodies after the infection and it is akin to getting a #vaccine. Image
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