RT- PCR tests giving false negative reports due to mutants? Dr A. Agrawal, Dir., NIBMG, Prof, IISc

Are RT- PCR tests giving false negative reports due to mutants?

Dr Anurag Agrawal,  Director,  NIBMG, Prof, IISc explains.

 
क्या आरटी- पीसीआर परीक्षण म्यूटेंट के कारण झूठी नकारात्मक रिपोर्ट दे रहे हैं?

"If Anyone Obstructs Oxygen Supply, We Will Hang Him": Delhi High Court

The Delhi High Court on Saturday, April 24, 2021 asked the Centre about the preparedness to deal with the expected COVID-19 second wave peak in mid-May, terming the massive rise in cases as a 'Tsunami', and warned it will "hang" any person who tries to obstruct oxygen supplies to hospitals here.

  

If anyone obstructs oxygen supply, "we will hang that man", the Delhi High Court reportedly said as it heard a Maharaja Agarsen hospital's petition over shortage of oxygen for seriously-ill COVID patients. 



US rejects India's COVID-19 vaccine plea, cites domestic priorities

US has not approved India's request for vaccine components citing domestic priorities of their own country. Responding to journalists, the US State Department spokesperson said, "we have a special responsibility to the American people". India's Foreign minister, S Jai Shankar has held a couple of rounds of discussions with his American counterpart Anthony Blinken on the easing of the US export embargo.

  



The Top Five Regrets Of The Dying

Author Bronnie Ware was serving as a nurse in Australia where she took care of patients who came to the hospital in their last stage. During her conversation with those patients, she realized that every dying person had regrets which she wrote about and she wrote about in her book "The Top Five Regrets Of The Dying"  This episode will transform your life by encouraging you to think, how to live to the fullest and avoid regrets.

 

लेखक ब्रॉनी वेयर ऑस्ट्रेलिया में एक नर्स के रूप में सेवा कर रही थीं, जहाँ उन्होंने अपने अंतिम चरण में अस्पताल में आने वाले रोगियों की देखभाल की। उन रोगियों के साथ अपनी बातचीत के दौरान, उन्होंने महसूस किया कि हर मरने वाले व्यक्ति को पछतावा था, जिसके बारे में उसने लिखा था और उसने अपनी पुस्तक "द टॉप फाइव रिग्रेट्स ऑफ द डाइंग" में इस बारे में लिखा है, यह एपिसोड आपको सोचने के लिए प्रोत्साहित करेगा, कि कैसे जीना पूरा करने के लिए और पछतावा से बचें।

Coronavirus Being Airborne Big Concern, Ventilation Key: AIIMS Director Dr Randeep Guleria

In Conversation With Dr Randeep Guleria: All India Institute Of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) chief Dr Randeep Guleria said one N95 mask worn properly is good enough protection against Covid. However, two cloth masks or surgical masks are now recommended for better protection. Dr Guleria stressed that the mask must form a seal around the nose to be effective, adding that the bigger concern is Covid being airborne and therefore, ventilation is key.

 

The virus is targeting young people, children, elders as well. Situation is vulnerablenow. So, stay safe & take care of your loved ones.

Amitabh Bachchan narrates a heartwarming poem - Manobal

 Bollywood superstar Amitabh Bachchan narrates a heartwarming poem titled "Manobal"

 

दुनियाभर में वैश्विक महामारी बनकर फैले कोरोना वायरस का प्रकोप दिनों दिन बढ़ता जा रहा है, जिसके चलते देश लाॅकडाउन है। मरीजों की संख्या लगातार बढ़ती जा रही है। सार्वजनिक जुटान और भीड़-भाड़ से परहेज करते हुए अपने घरों में रहना ही इस बीमारी से बचाव का तरीका है। ऐसे में इंटरनेट ही वह माध्यम है जिसके रास्ते आप लोगों तक पहुंच सकते हैं और तरह-तरह से लोगों का मनोबल बढ़ा सकते हैं। इस बीच महानायक अमिताभ बच्चन ने कुछ प्रेरणादायक काव्य पंक्तियां अपने सोशल मीडिया अकाउंट पर शेयर की हैं।

"Supposed To Give Life...We Can't Even Give Oxygen": Doctor Breaks Down in Delhi, India

Some of the biggest hospitals in Delhi have over the past few days suffered the worst of the mayhem caused by the second wave of COVID-19. Conditions are equally deplorable, if not worse, in the smaller medical facilities of the National Capital Territory where the oxygen shortage crisis has turned nightmarish. So much so that one distraught senior doctor today broke down on camera while talking about his patients' precarious situation and having to discharge many of them out of turn.