Taste and smell gone forever? The anguish of Covid survivors banglamirrornews.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from banglamirrornews.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
I’m stalked by a smell. It’s lurking in my kitchen, in my bathroom, on my breath. It settles on the surface of my coffee and, sometimes, my skin. I can smell it in my perfume and all the food I eat. Most days I think it’s onion, but it’s also close to garlic, or gas, or garlic cooked on gas. It is not, curiously, a scent I had smelled before October, and yet it’s there all the time, right under my nose. I caught Covid that month, and the smell has plagued me since. Around 65 per cent of people who test positive for coronavirus lose their sense of taste and smell; roughly 8 per cent say these symptoms persist at least five weeks after infection. This means more than 300,000 people in the UK alone have suffered, or are still suffering, from “long haul” Covid smell disorders.
Highest national one-day jump in daily infections since October 11 India reported 72,330 fresh coronavirus infections on Thursday, taking the cumulative caseload to 1,22,21,665, according to a report in the Scroll. The daily rise is the highest since October 11. The country saw 459 deaths due to the pandemic, taking the death toll to 1,62,927, according to central health ministry data. The active caseload is at 5,84,055, while the total recoveries have surged to 1,14,74,683. As many as 6,51,17,896 vaccines have been given since the nationwide inoculation programme kicked off on January 16. Read more here
Can you consume alcohol after getting a Covid shot? Consuming alcohol will not render the Covid-19 vaccine ineffective and there is no need to abstain, an explainer in The Indian Express said. The central health ministry has clarified this and the official advisory can be found here. On the question of alcohol and the vaccine, the ministry says: “As per experts, there is no ev
In Spain, sanctuaries give forever homes to rescued farmed animals
“Sometimes I honestly just cry looking at them, from happiness.”
Carla Heras, a volunteer at Santuario Gaia in Camprodon, Spain, cradles Laietana the duck. Laietana is one of 1,500 animals most rescued from the streets and the farming industry living at the sanctuary. Gaia is among a few dozen sanctuaries in Spain providing a home to animals previously farmed for food.
ByNatasha Daly
Email
When Elena Tova rescued a sick pig on a whim nearly 15 years ago, she had never heard of the concept of an animal sanctuary. “Sanctuaries didn’t exist in Spain. The word didn’t exist,” she says, explaining she’d only ever heard
Perder el gusto y el olfato para siempre, la angustia de muchos tras sufrir Covid paginasiete.bo - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from paginasiete.bo Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.