AIIMS COVID task force head warns states ahead of festive season, says THIS - The pandemic can return with a vengeance if states and UTs are not careful during the festive season said AIIMS COVID task force head.
We treated over 20,000 cases of Covid and our treatment process helped reduce the mortality rate to almost zero, says Dr D. Nageshwar Reddy, founder of the Asian Institute of Gastroenterology in Hyderabad
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It won’t be easy for Sneha, 8, and Neha, 10, to forget the Covid pandemic that took away their parents. They are staying with their maternal aunt, who says Sneha is adapting to the situation, but Neha is finding it difficult. Whenever Sneha asks about her parents, she is told that they have gone to be with God for a few days. Neha, however, understands that their parents won’t come back. “We won’t give them up for adoption. They are my responsibility and that is what family is for,” says the aunt. After eight years, Neha will be an adult and can then decide for herself and her sister. In a Punjab village, 16-year-old Rohanpreet lost his parents in April, when he was to appear for his board exams. “Elders in the village have decided to take care of him until he is 18 years old,” says a neighbour. “His father has left behind much property, and we are not sure whether their distant relatives wouldn’t misuse it fo
Lachmi Deb Roy May 27, 2021 00:00 IST Cuisine Egalite outlookindia.com 2021-05-28T15:02:02+05:30
It’s a fact driven into us, day after dispiriting day, that we live in an age of confinement locked up within four walls as an unseen, deadly occupier declares curfew. For the elderly and the infirm who need daily care, the second wave of the pandemic, like last year’s lockdown months, has left them destitute of all care: geriatric help and household chore, as well as that daily necessity the preparation of nourishing food. For others too, cooking is an interminable drag. For all of them, meal boxes prepared by ‘home chefs’ have appeared as pleasant, and predictable, agents of salvation. Indeed, isn’t this a step away from a DIY gourmet food kit, itself the saviour of many a fashionable eatery?