Apart from upscaling testing and surveillance, the state health department has also increased vaccination centres and has ramped up vaccination in the recent days.
HYDERABAD: The middle and upper middle-class category of residents are more prone to contracting the virus during the ongoing second wave. Currently, around 5,000 patients are admitted at various private and corporate hospitals in the state, especially in and around the city, pushing bed availability to the brink.
“During the first wave, majority of the lower-class population already got affected. In the current wave, we are seeing more of middle-class and above getting affected. This is the reason we are seeing a large number of admissions in the private hospitals. Currently around 2,000 patients are admitted in government hospitals in the state while nearly 5,000 patients are in private hospitals,” said Dr G Srinivasa Rao, director of public health, Telangana.
Updated Apr 13, 2021 | 01:28 IST With a zeal to help the differently-abled people, a Hyderabad based doctor helps the poor and needy disabled people to give them a second life, through his Disabled Foundation Trust . Disabled Foundation Trust by a Hyderabad based doctor helps the poor and needy disabled people free treatment. | Photo Credit: IANS
Hyderabad: With a zeal to help the differently-abled people, a Hyderabad-based doctor helps the poor and needy disabled people to give them a second life, through his Disabled Foundation Trust . Inspired by the work of Former President of India late APJ Abdul Kalam, this Hyderabad-based doctor provides free treatment to the needy differently-abled people. He helps the differently-abled people right from treatment, medication and further to find a job.
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HYDERABAD: Desi Covid-19 vaccine Covaxin seems to be running out of stock in its own backyard – Hyderabad. Most vaccination centres in the city, be they government or private, don’t have stock. The reason: A sudden spike in demand for the indigenously developed vaccine.
Such has been the surge in demand for the vaccine that many of those waiting in queues for a Covaxin shot, have had to return home without getting the jab, especially after the vaccination drive was opened up to everyone over 45 years of age.
Right from making frantic calls to hospitals and friends in right places to reaching out to contacts through social media, people are leaving no stone unturned to get their hands on Covaxin.
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BENGALURU: Bengaluru police have claimed that at least five legislators from Telangana allegedly attended ‘dance-and-trance’ parties in Bengaluru and Hyderabad. Investigators say those associated with a drug cartel organised the parties and seven members of the gang have already been arrested.
While police officials are yet to reveal the MLAs’ names or confirm if they had actually consumed drugs in the parties, sources said they have collected their names from those arrested and other suspects.
Bengaluru police commissioner Kamal Pant told STOI: “During investigation of the drug case, a couple of witnesses made statements and we are examining them. Since the matter is being probed, details can’t be shared.”
Hyderabad: While there is consensus that Covid-19 virus evolved from the coronavirus present in bats, it still remains a mystery how the new virus has taken pandemic proportions. A team of international researchers, including those from the Indian Institute of Chemical Technology (IICT) in Hyderabad and Kakatiya Medical College and MG Hospital in Warangal, have taken up research to demystify the proximal origin of the pandemic virus.
Researchers point out that the unique features of Covid-19 virus raise several questions about how it had evolved from the bats. They argue that Covid-19 is the seventh human coronavirus, but it is the first one that has caused the pandemic. While other human coronaviruses like severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) disappeared without a pandemic, Middle Eastern respiratory syndrome (MERS) is mostly endemic to the Arabian Peninsula, they said in their study published in the recent issue of Journal of Medical Virology.