Ravi, who is also the member of Karnatakas Covid technical advisory committee, stressed on the need to ramp up medical infrastructure to treat Covid infected children. “We dont have enough pediatric Covid care wards and intensive care units for children. This has to be urgently scaled up,” he said.
PETALING JAYA: Selangor, Kuala Lumpur and Johor have the highest number of sporadic Covid-19 cases – those where the source of infection is not known, says Datuk Seri Dr Adham Baba.
The Health Minister also said that as of Sunday (April 25), sporadic cases accounted for about 60% of the total recorded since Jan 1. The highest number of sporadic cases are in Selangor (65,215), KL (19,834) and Johor (17,974), he told a press conference on Monday (April 26).
He also said the number of clusters in educational institutions had in`creased by 83% from 12 clusters in epidemiological week 15 (April 11 to 17) to 22 in week 16 (April 18 to 24).
Meanwhile, deputy Health director-general (research and technical support) Dr Hishamshah Mohd Ibrahim said the ministry had not yet detected the double-mutant variant originating from India.
Glenn Krause
(Double Mutant Variant, coming soon to theatres– wait, no, strike that. Movie theatres here aren’t open yet.)
BLUE HOO!
Who’d have thunk it! That Doug Ford, the guy who ran on the platform of “a buck a beer” in Ontario, and Jason Kenney, the guy who claimed he lived in his mother’s basement in a retirement residence “that did not allow subletting,” would not be capable of leading their provinces through the most complicated crisis of our lifetimes!
KEN TARABULA
(And everyone else is doing such a bang-up job, right? It’s easy to pick on Conservatives but maybe aim a little higher in the blame game.)
UPDATED: April 12, 2021 00:39 IST
Mobile Emergency Care Service (SAMU) workers move a Covid-19 patient to an ambulance in Duque de Caxias, Rio de Janeiro state, (AP Photo)
April is shaping up to be Brazil’s darkest month yet in the pandemic, with hospitals struggling with a crush of patients, deaths on track for record highs and few signs of a reprieve from a troubled vaccination program in Latin America’s largest nation.
The Health Ministry has cut its outlook for vaccine supplies in April three times already, to half their initial level, and the country’s two biggest laboratories are facing supply constraints.
It was a bit surprising that it was already here, he said.
The new variant is responsible for a surge in coronavirus cases in a a region of India that includes Mumbai, and experts are worried the variant is spreading rapidly setting up an increasingly urgent race between variants and vaccines. The vaccines may be slightly less effective in preventing moderate disease or moderate illness with this particular variant, Dr. Pinsky said, but the vaccines are still very effective and people should get vaccinated as soon as possible.
UCSF Doctor Peter Chin-Hong says the variant contains one mutation identical to the West Coast variant and a second one similar to variants first found in Brazil and South Africa.