Bengaluru, Apr 5: Will covid-19 vaccines protect you from novel coronavirus? If you think “yes”, the ground reality is quite different. Many hospitals in Karnataka have confirmed that healthcare workers and other personnel have been contracting covid-19 even after receiving the second dose.
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BENGALURU: Karnataka’s use of tele-medicine, particularly to manage critically-ill Covid-19 patients, may have been one of the reasons the state’s case fatality rate (CFR) was not very high, a new study suggests.Titled ‘Tele Medicine, Tele Rounds, and Tele Intensive Care Unit in the Covid-19 Pandemic’, the study was published in the Indian Journal of Medical Specialties. It suggests, based on its performance in tackling Covid, that tele-medicine could be the future and can provide healthcare even to remote areas.
Karnataka was the first state to set up a tele-health service including ICUs through PPP, and create a critical care resource team, including three hospitals in Bengaluru, to combat Covid cases. The team would go on ‘tele-rounds’ to treat patients in all districts.Columbia Asia Referral Hospital in Yeshwantpur and Manipal Hospitals on Airport Road in Bengaluru, had done tele-rounds of 28 districts for 10 weeks, up to June-end 2020. As
No Covid vaccine slots available, people forced to wait till April
Many people, who have been trying to register on the CoWIN portal, have been facing unavailability of slots at hospitals nearby until March end.
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A medic prepares a dose of COVID vaccine in a syringe during a vaccination drive. (File| PTI)
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BENGALURU: Many people, who have been trying to register on the CoWIN portal, have been facing unavailability of slots at hospitals nearby until March end. Hence, they are waiting for the April slots to open.Gururaja Rao (75), resident of T Dasarahalli who has been trying to register online from Day 1, is disappointed. “For the past three days I have been trying to book a slot. But the app shows no appointments are available for the whole of March.
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