Indian prime minister emphasizes increased testing to quickly trace, track and isolate those affected.
Category: Health And Wellness
Gilead’s Remdesivir supply to be produced by 6 Indian companies
iNDICA NEWS BUREAU- To boost the supply of remdesivir — an experimental drug that has shown promise in treating Covid-19 — its maker, US-based Gilead Sciences, has signed non-exclusive voluntary licensing agreements with at least six Indian pharmaceutical companies. These companies are — Dr. Reddy’s Laboratories Ltd., Zydus Cadila Healthcare Ltd., Biocon company Syngene, Hetero […]
Common steroid can curb coronavirus deaths: British scientists
Low doses of the common steroid dexamethasone can help cut the risk of death in serious cases of the COVID-19 infection, British experts said Tuesday in what they called “a major breakthrough”.
Timely decisions helped India control coronavirus: Narendra Modi
India, the prime minister said, had begun to prepare for the coronavirus when it was not even a topic of discussion in many countries.
The spread of COVID-19 is still on the high
iNDICA NEWS BUREAU- Just when the world began pushing the COVID-19 aside since there has been some level of stability and management, countries around the world are experiencing an increased affected case, including the US, China, India, and more. India’s coronavirus tally rose to 3,20,922 cases today (June 14) as it recorded the single-day biggest […]
A dramatic decrease in COVID-19 cases is “wishful thinking”, says an Indian-American professor
indica News Bureau- Many experts are claiming that the novel coronavirus may begin to decline from September onwards. But there is no solid conviction to this claim, as the understanding of the virus itself unclear. In fact, contrary to this claim, an eminent Indian-American professor has warned that the total death toll in the US […]
Coranavirus pandemic: India among five most affected countries
According to the online dashboard by the Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) at at Johns Hopkins University, India is the fifth-most affected country with 276,583 total confirmed cases of COVID-19 as of early Wednesday morning.
The mysterious and dangerous case of COVID-19 blood clots
iNDICA NEWS BUREAU- The coronavirus isn’t just a respiratory infection. As days pass doctors come to learn more new things about the novel coronavirus. In fresh new findings on what makes COVID-19 so severe for some patients, they have discovered a mysterious and potentially lethal complication of the disease: blood clots. Doctors around the […]
Trump turns the media’s attention to India and China
iNDICA NEWS BUREAU- US President Donald Trump has been known to distract a question by directing the conversations towards something else. When the United States is under complete discord, he turns the focus towards how India and China are handling the COVID-19? He said that countries like India and China would have much more […]
HCQ for COVID-19: New study casts doubts
indica News Bureau- A new study has added to the debate raging over the efficacy of the anti-malarial drug hydroxychloroquine or HCQ as preventive medicine against COVID-19. The new study, published on Wednesday in the New England Journal of Medicine, concluded: “After high-risk or moderate-risk exposure to Covid-19, hydroxychloroquine did not prevent illness compatible with COVID-19 […]