As hospitals across India are reeling under a severe shortage of medical grade oxygen, Centre has released a set of instructions explaining what proning is and how it helps in improving oxygenation in Covid patients. Proning is a medically accepted position to improve breathing comfort and oxygenation. Covid patients with compromised breathing comfort in home […]
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday announced the launch of the M-Yoga app for yoga training videos that will be available worldwide in different languages and said that the application will play a ‘great role’ in expanding yoga across the globe. While addressing an event marking the seventh International Yoga Day on Monday morning, said, […]
Adopting a graded approach to reopening, Punjab chief minister (CM) Captain Amarinder Singh on Monday ordered extension of Covid restrictions in the state to June 15 with certain relaxations, including opening of shops till 6 pm and private offices to function at 50% strength. Night curfew will remain in force from 7pm to 6am on […]
Chandigarh administration said after a meeting on Monday that it would allow shops to reopen from 9am to 3pm and the night curfew will continue from 6pm to 5am. The weekend curfew will be imposed in Chandigarh from 6pm (on Friday, May 28, 2021) to 5am (Monday, May 31, 2021). During the weekend curfew, only […]
Senior virologist Shahid Jameel resigned as the chairman of scientific advisory group of Indian SARS-CoV-2 Genomics Consortium (INSACOG), a forum set up by union government in December last year for laboratory and epidemiological surveillance of circulating strains of Covid-19 in India. Shahid Jameel, currently the Director of the Trivedi School of Biosciences at Ashoka University, […]
A 100-bed Covid hospital set up by the Western Command on the Panjab University campus was inaugurated on Monday by UT Administrator VP Singh Badnore. Moderate symptomatic civilian patients will be admitted to this hospital which has oxygen level 1 facility. Around 100 paramedics will man the hospital. The medicines, oxygen and equipment have been […]
Daily news updates of the Covid pandemic have caused mental strain for many people across the world. For those living with anxiety and depression, the impact is harsh. As experts have recommended social distancing and self-quarantine to prevent the spread of coronavirus disease, it sends most of us into isolation. Here are baby steps that […]
Amid the surging Covid cases, farmer unions from Punjab have announced that they will hold street protests against the coronavirus lockdown on May 8 in the state and urge people to defy the restrictions. This decision was taken by 32 farmer unions of Punjab, which are part of the Sanyukta Kisan Morcha — the umbrella […]
The latest to join the long list of Covid-19 symptoms is ‘happy hypoxia’ which means very low levels of oxygen in the blood, leaving medical professionals across the world baffled. The second Covid wave has infected many youngsters (0-25 years), unlike the first one. Young people are reporting lung infections and suffering from “Happy Hypoxia”. […]
Punjab chief minister (CM) Captain Amarinder Singh on Monday announced all accredited and yellow card journalists in the state to be included in the list of frontline warriors in the fight against Covid. All Power Corporation employees in the state have also been brought into the ambit of frontline workers. These employees, along with the […]