International team seeking Covid-19 origin to go to China in January: WHO

Geneva: The World Health Organization said Wednesday that a team of international experts would travel to China next month to help investigate the animal origins of Covid-19. "I can confirm that this will take place in January," WHO spokesman Hedinn Halldorsson told AFP when asked about reports that the expert team would finally go to China next month. A year into the novel coronavirus pandemic, which has killed more than 1.6 million people and infected over 73 million globally, the question of where the virus came from and how it first crossed over to humans remains a mystery. ....read more

Infection and Inflammation of the Heart

Kawasaki disease is a common cause of heart disease in children. To elaborate on infection and inflammation of the heart in children, we have with us, Dr Vijayalakshmi. Join us today at 7 pm on Medtalks with Dr K K Aggarwal as she throws light on this subject.Just click on www.facebook.com/drkkaggarwal or https://perfecthealthmela.com/vevent2/hall1a.php

CMAAO Coronavirus Facts and Myth Buster: Vaccine Update

1214: HCFI Round Table Expert Zoom Meeting on “Vaccine update” ,12th December, 2020, 11am-12pm,Participants: Dr KK Aggarwal, Dr AK Agarwal, Dr Jayakrishnan Alapet, Dr Suneela Garg, Dr YK Gupta, Dr Anita Chakravarti, Dr Ashok Gupta, Dr Alex Thomas, Mr Bejon Misra, Ms Upasana Arora, Dr Anil Kumar, Ms Ira Gupta, Dr S SharmaConsensus Statement of HCFI Expert Round Table Graphs of the top 15 countries in the world show that India, Argentina and Poland are still experiencing the first wave of the infection. The remaining 12 countries have seen more than one wave; of these, the second wave is shorter than the first wave only in Brazil and Colombia. ....read more

World COVID Meter 16th December: Acute manageable immunogenic thrombogenic inflammatory viral disease pandemic

Cases: 1M April 2, 2M April 15, 3M April 27, 4M May 8, 5M May 20, 6M May 30, 7M June 7, 8M June 15, 9M June 22, 10M June 29th, 11M July 4, 12M July 8, 13M July 13, 14M July 17, 15M July 23, 16M July 25, 17M July 29, 18M August 1, 19M August 6, 20M August 10, 21M August 16, 22M August 19, 23M August 21, 24M August 27, 25M August 30, 26M September 3, 27M September 7, 28M September 10, 29M September 14, 30M September 18, 31M September 21, 32M September 23, 33M September 28, 34M October 1, 35M October 4, 36M October 8, 37M October 11, 38M October 14, 39M October 17, 40M October 19, 41M October 22, 42M October 24, 43M October 26, 44M October 28, 45M October 30, 46M November 2, 47M November 4, 48M November 6, 49M November 7, 50M November 8, 51M November 10, 52M November 12, 53M November 14, 54M November 15, 55M November 17, 56M November 19, 57M November 20, 58M November 22, 59M November 24, 60M November 25, 61M November 27, 62M November 29, 63M December 1, 64M December 2, 65M December 4, 66M December 6, 67M December 7, 68M December 9, 69M December 10, 70M December 12, 71M December 13, 72M December 14, 73M December 15 Ground Zero: Wuhan - in live animal market or cafeteria for animal pathogens: 10th January; Total cases are based on RT PCR, 67% sensitivity Coronavirus Cases: 73,784,535,Deaths: 1,640,527,Recovered: 51,786,971,ACTIVE CASES 20,357,037,Currently Infected Patients 20,239,859 (99.4%) in Mild Condition ....read more

Importance of silence

True silence is the silence between thoughts and represents the true self, consciousness or the soul. It is a web of energized information ready to take all, provided there is a right intent. Meditation is the process of achieving this silence. Observing silence is another way of getting benefits of meditation. Many yogis in the past have recommended and observed silence now and then. Mahatma Gandhi used to spend one day of each week in silence. He believed that abstaining from speech brought him inner peace and happiness. On these days, he communicated with others only by writing on paper. ....read more

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People with rare autoimmune diseases at death risk during Covid: Study

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London: Researchers have now found that people with rare autoimmune rheumatic diseases are at a greater risk of dying at a younger age amid the Covid-19 pandemic. For the study, published in the journal Rheumatology, the research team looked at the electronic health records of 170,000 people in England with rare autoimmune rheumatic diseases. During March and April 2020 (the first two months of the Covid-19 pandemic), the team found that 1,815 (1.1 per cent) of people with these diseases died.

China welcomes WHO team to investigate coronavirus origin: Report

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The World Health Organization (WHO) on Thursday said that China had welcomed an international team of investigators who would travel to China in early January to help investigate the origins of Covid-19. Addressing a press conference, Babatunde Olowokure, the WHOs regional emergencies director in the Western Pacific, said that the organisation was in talks with Beijing over where the investigators would travel to within the country.

Severe allergic reaction in US health worker minutes after Pfizer shot

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An Alaskan health worker had a serious allergic reaction after getting Pfizer Inc and BioNTech’s coronavirus vaccine, but is now stable, public health authorities said on Wednesday. The adverse reaction in the person, minutes after taking the Pfizer shot on Tuesday, was similar to two cases reported last week in Britain. Britain’s medical regulator has said that anyone with a history of anaphylaxis, or severe allergic reactions to a medicine or food, should not get the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine.

Tokyo says Covid-19 strain on hospitals severe, raises alert to highest

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The Japanese capital of Tokyo said on Thursday the strain on its medical system from the Covid-19 pandemic was severe, raising its alert level to the highest of four stages as hospital beds filled up with rising infections. At a coronavirus monitoring committee meeting attended by Tokyo Governor Yuriko Koike, a health official said it had become difficult to balance the care of Covid-19 patients with regular ones, assigning a “red” alert for medical preparedness for the first time. The number of positive cases in Tokyo hit a daily record of 678 cases on Wednesday, and the city a month ago raised its coronavirus alert for new infections - a separate category - to the highest level.