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The researcher of the University of California (UC) San Francisco in the US found that the risk of preterm birth occurs at less than 32 weeks, was 60 percent higher for people infected with Covid-19 at some point in their pregnancy. This report was published in the Lancet Regional Health Journal. For people with the issue of hypertension, diabetes, and or obesity as well as Covid-19, the risk of preterm birth during pregnancy rises to 160 percent. Preterm birth is a matter of concern for the infant as well as the mother. It also leads to a higher risk of infant complications. Therefore, with the surge of increased infection of Delta Virus cases. It has become important to look after pregnant women for ensuring their safety and decreasing the risk of preterm birth.  As per the research analysis of all live births between, January 2020 to 2021, documented by the California Vital Statistics birth certificate, out of 240,157 recorded births, nearly 9,000, or 3.7 percent, indicating a Covid-19 diagnosis pregnancy. According to a study, the preterm birthrate among birthing people with a covid-19 diagnosis was 11.8 percent compared with 8.7 percent among those without the disease, as published in healthworld.com.

At present, there is a total of 21, Covid-19 related vaccines, approved for vaccination across the globe. As per the data, to date around 36,500,000 people are fully vaccinated in the United Kingdom.  If we look into the data for the United States over 162,100,000 people are fully vaccinated until now.  According to the data compiled by Google, 13% of the total world population has been fully vaccinated, against Covid-19. Although people are being encouraged to immediately report any side effects after taking the vaccine. As the Center for Disease Prevention stated to monitoring real-world vaccine safety. Various side effects like swelling, redness, and pain at the area of injection were experienced by people. Other commonly reported symptoms are fever, chills, and nausea. On the contrary, many people did not experience any side effects after the vaccination. Now the question arises, whether these people have not been protected again Covid-19. William Schaffner, M. D., professor of infectious diseases at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, TN, said, “There is no correlation between side effects and effectiveness of the covid-19 vaccine. Neither the absence and nor the presence of side effects signifies any kind of strong immunity.  Source:  MedicalNewsToday

New Delhi: For our sportsmen who are making our nation proud at the Tokyo Olympics, a multi-specialty healthcare startup has announced free healthcare services to all 127 Indian athletes competing at the Tokyo Olympics 2020. The athletes may avail any surgical treatment from about 50 surgeries free of cost for life. These include surgical services related to Sports Orthopaedics, Proctology, Urology, Laparoscopy, Vascular, Ophthalmology and more. A sportsperson often avails medical services in Sports Orthopaedics, Proctology, Urology, Ophthalmology etc. Glamyo Health, with a network of over 200 hospitals across 9 cities, specialises in these services with a team of surgeons and a network of hospitals. The company says it has put a dedicated team in place to coordinate and execute the free healthcare scheme. “Today when Indian athletes have made us proud, we take this opportunity to thank them for their exceptional performance and contribution on the international level and are pleased to provide them our surgical services for free,” said Archit Garg, Co-founder, Glamyo Health. Glamyo, whose services will not be limited to Olympic medallists, it will be for all 127 Indian athletes, has already served 12,500+ patients and works with 150+ highly qualified surgeons. The healthcare provider further plans to expand its presence to 20 cities and have over 250 hospitals in its network by the end of the year 2021. With this help for our athletes, the brand will surely aid in their much-needed medical requirements. Source: India TV

ADAMA India, an Israeli-based MNC in Hyderabad, has donated oxygen generation plants and storage tanks worth Rs 3 crore to multiple hospitals in India. Hyderabad: ADAMA India is an Israel-based company situated in Hyderabad. As part of its on-going community initiative, the MNC donated oxygen generation tanks to multiple hospitals in India worth Rs 3 crore to support the country in its fight against COVID-19.  Eight oxygen generation plants and two oxygen storage tanks will soon be installed in Mahavir Hospital and Research Centre, in Hyderabad, District Government Hospital, Nandyal, and Pushpalata Government Hospital in Andhra Pradesh’s Gudivada. India struggled a lot during the second wave of the pandemic and due to the oxygen shortage in the country, many people lost their lives. Therefore, the need for oxygen generation tanks was at its peak during the second wave. However, ESIC Hospital in Ghaziabad is the first to get the installation of an oxygen generation plant, other government and trust hospitals still wait to finish the installation in the next few weeks.  The hospitals that await installations are in Ballari (Karnataka), Morena, Sheopur and Indore (Madhya Pradesh), Pune (Maharashtra) and Bathinda (Punjab). Apart from supporting the country to increase oxygen generation, ADAMA has also helped by pitching in for other healthcare initiatives like donating high-flow nasal oxygen sets, autoclave machines, Maglumi analyser machines, along with reagent kits, fogger machines, N95 Masks, face shields and medicines. The global pandemic has increased the demand for oxygen in the world. The oxygen is not only used in treatment of COVID-19 patients, it is used as a medicine for patients of multiple diseases like patients in times of surgery, trauma, heart failure, asthma, pneumonia, and maternal and child care. Important anecdote: Pneumonia accounts for 8, 00,000 lakh deaths per year and according to estimation, 20 to 40% of these deaths can be eliminated with the use and availability of oxygen therapy.  Source: India Today

After a slight relief from coronavirus impact in India so far. Again, a sense of fear is generated among people witnessing a rise in coronavirus infection, in around 13 UTs and states last week. With that Kerala which was into the good books for better management of coronavirus impact in the state, is again surrounded by covid danger. The southern states of India are seen to contributing more than half of the covid-cases of India.  With that, states/UTs like Delhi, Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Mizoram, J&K, Sikkim, and Karnataka too witnessed a spike in the total cases of covid-19.  Except for Mumbai and Pune, almost all major cities of India are under threat of a rise in Corona infection cases. Meanwhile, Uttar Pradesh has topped the list of highest vaccination. Along with that Uttar Pradesh government is also all set to reopen schools soon. India so far has reported 30549 new coronavirus cases in the last 24 hours, taking the total number of covid cases to this date to 31726507 as per the data from the union health ministry on Tuesday.

A study by a group of researchers led by Mathukumalli Vidyasagar and Manindra Agrawal at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) in Hyderabad and Kanpur predict that India is likely to witness another rise in COVID-19 cases in August. New Delhi: There have been multiple talks about the third wave of the pandemic in India. A group of experts have predicted that the third wave of the COVID-19 pandemic will strike in mid-August.  According to their predictions, the cases will peak till 1, 00,000 in the best-case scenario and will surge to 1, 50,000 infections a day in the worst-case scenario.  The study by a group of researchers has been led by Mathukumalli Vidyasagar and Manindra Agrawal at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) in Hyderabad and Kanpur. Though they have predicted a third wave of the COVID-19 infections starting mid-August, they have said that it is going to be relatively less brutal than the second wave where the country was reporting 4, 00, 000 infections daily.  Predicting on the same line, Dr Samiran Panda, Head of Epidemiology and infectious diseases at the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR), said that the third wave will hit sometime around August-end. “There might be a third wave as it is not inevitable after the second wave. If the third wave happens, it will hit sometime around August-end,” she said.  She added further, “When will the third wave come and how severe it can be, all these questions are related to many factors which are not known to the full extent.” India reported 40,134 new cases of COVID-19 and 422 deaths in the last 24 hours, as per the Union Health Ministry on Monday. The total number of cases currently stands at 3, 16, 95, 958. The death toll has climbed to 4, 24,773. The number of active cases of COVID-19 in the country is 4, 13, 718. A total of 36,946 patients recovered in the last 24 hours and 3, 08, 57, 467 people have recovered from COVID-19 since the beginning of the pandemic. This constitutes an overall recovery rate of 97.35 per cent. Less than 50,000 daily new cases have been reported since thirty-six continuous days. This is a result of sustained and collaborative efforts by the Centre, the States and UTs. The Centre has currently directed ten states, including Kerala, Maharashtra, and northeastern regions, to control the disease’s spread. Source: ANI, Economic Times