05 May , 2022 By : monika singh
Coronavirus Pandemic May 5 Live News: India recorded 3,275 new Covid-19 cases and 55 more deaths in 24 hours, according to the official data shared by the Ministry of Health on Thursday morning. The data suggested that the active caseload rose to 19,719.
Serum Institute of India’s CEO Adar Poonawalla on Wednesday night clarified via his Twitter handle that the Covid-19 vaccine Covovax is now available for everyone above the age of 12 years.
In view of the spike reported in Covid-19 cases in the national capital, the North Delhi Municipal Corporation (NDMC) told PTI that it has taken various measures to control the spread of the infection. These measures include setting up separate registration counters for suspected coronavirus patients at its health facilities, separate queues for medical consultations, dedicated lab testing facilities and separate counters for free distribution of medicines etc. The NDMC also said that it is prepared to provide one month’s advance medicines to patients suffering from chronic diseases.
A statement from the NDMC said that authorities at all NDMC hospitals and health centres have been asked to make proper arrangement of signages on the premises of hospitals and health units. Hospital staff and medical officers have been directed to maintain adequate stock of PPE kits, masks, gloves, sanitisers, liquid soaps, pulse oximeters, among others. The statement further added that oxygen supplying units and PSA oxygen plants set up at hospitals have been asked to remain in operational mode, just to meet any emergency requirement.
The Omicron variant of the SARS-CoV2 virus is intrinsically as severe as previous variants, unlike assumptions made in previous studies that it was more transmissible but less severe, a large study in the United States has found. “We found that the risks of hospitalization and mortality were nearly identical between periods,” said four scientists who conducted the study based on records of 130,000 COVID-19 patients, referring to times in the past two years when different variants were dominant across the world.
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