India Battles Deadly Fungus as Virus Deaths Pass 300,000
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A health worker takes a mouth swab sample of a boy to test for COVID-19 in Hyderabad, India, Thursday, April 29, 2021. (AP Photo/Mahesh Kumar A.)
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fungus that is infecting COVID-19 patients and those who have recovered from the new coronavirus.
The dangerous infection, called mucormycosis, is rare. But doctors say its sudden increase could make India’s fight against COVID-19 even more difficult.
India has reported almost 27 million cases of the coronavirus since the pandemic began. Almost half of that number has been recorded in the past two months.
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NEW DELHI: Doctors in India are fighting a fatal fungal infection affecting COVID-19 patients or those who have recovered from the disease amid a coronavirus surge that has driven the country’s fatalities to nearly 300,000. The life-threatening condition, known as mucormycosis, is relatively rare but doctors suspect that the sudden increase in the infection could further
23 May 2021, 8:35 am
Doctors in India are fighting a fatal fungal infection affecting Covid-19 patients or those who have recovered from the disease amid a coronavirus surge that has driven the country’s fatalities to nearly 300,000.
The life-threatening condition, known as mucormycosis, is relatively rare but doctors suspect that the sudden increase in the infection could further complicate India’s fight against the pandemic.
India has reported more than 26 million confirmed cases of coronavirus since the pandemic began, with almost half occurring in the past two months.
On Sunday, the Health Ministry reported 3,741 new deaths, driving India’s confirmed fatalities to 299,266.