8.12 am: The Indian Council of Medical Research has said that its Twitter handle was compromised on Wednesday, The Indian Express report...
8.12 am: The Indian Council of Medical Research has said that its Twitter handle was compromised on Wednesday, The Indian Express reports. The medical body has said that it was observed that some tweets criticising the government were “liked” from the ICMR’s official Twitter handle. The matter is being rectified, the medical research body says.
8.07 am: The Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare says early identification of coronavirus infections through aggressive testing, comprehensive surveillance and contact tracing, and focus on timely and efficient clinical treatment of patients have ensured a high number of recoveries, ANI reports. It adds that this has also kept the case fatality rate low.
Early identification through aggressive testing, comprehensive surveillance & contact tracing, and focus on timely and efficient clinical treatment of patients have ensured high number of speedy recoveries. This has also kept the case fatality rate low: Ministry of Health pic.twitter.com/fNJ7BIpbHd
— ANI (@ANI) August 27, 2020
8.02 am: Experts at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences say Covid-19 can affect all organs of the body, the Hindustan Times reports. They say that classification of cases into mild, moderate and severe categories based on respiratory symptoms is inadequate. Involvement of other organs should also be considered.
“We have seen many patients who presented features which are predominantly pulmonary but extrapulmonary...
