With ten deaths over the last month and a sharp spike in cases, India’s financial capital city Mumbai is staring at a measles outbreak.
Until November 24, 2022, Mumbai has reported 252 confirmed cases.
Measles is a common infectious disease, especially among children, in which your body feels hot and your skin is covered in small red spots.
Children aged between 09 months to 5 years are mostly affected by measles.
Following social media outcry, authorities in Bangladesh have dropped plans of opening a dedicated beach only for women and women after facing accusations that were they acquiescing to hardline Islamises.
On Thursday officials had opened a section of shoreline on the world’s longest natural sea beach in Cox’s Bazar exclusively for women and children. But hours later announced they were dropping the idea.
The decision to segregate the beach was made following requests from some conservative women, officials had said.
The government has come out with comprehensive guidelines for the management of COVID-19 among children in which Remdesivir has not been recommended and rational use of HRCT imaging has been suggested.
The guidelines issued by the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) under the health ministry also said that steroids are harmful in asymptomatic and mild cases of infection.