Role of ivermectin in the prevention of SARS-CoV-2 infection among healthcare workers in India: A matched case-control study (Peer Reviewed)
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Background
Ivermectin is one among several potential drugs explored for its therapeutic and preventive role in SARS-CoV-2 infection. The study was aimed to explore the association between ivermectin prophylaxis and the development of SARS-CoV-2 infection among healthcare workers.
Methods
A hospital-based matched case-control study was conducted among healthcare workers of AIIMS Bhubaneswar, India, from September to October 2020. Profession, gender, age and date of diagnosis were matched for 186 case-control pairs. Cases and controls were healthcare workers who tested positive and negative, respectively, for COVID-19 by RT-PCR. Exposure was defined as the intake of ivermectin and/or hydroxychloroquine and/or vitamin-C and/or other prophylaxis for COVID-19. Data collection and entry was done in Epicollect5, and analysis was perf
The dragon bites its tail – Part II
FROM THE ARCHIVES: A longform piece on Bhutan’s Lhotshampa question [1992]. A Lotshampa refugee at a camp in Jhapa District of eastern Nepal showing his Bhutanese passport.
Photo: Alemaugil / Wikimedia Common
(This article was first published in our July-August 1992 print issue. Also read Part I and Part III of the reportage.)
No more a backwater
Bhutan was still an economic backwater at the end of the 1940s. The economic, cultural and social interaction and sustenance was almost exclusively with the north. The forested southern hills, the malarial jungles of the Duars and, beyond, the India of the British Empire, held little charm to the pastoralists of high valleys.
9 officials given compulsory retirement Post News Network
Bhubaneswar: Cracking whip on corrupt and inefficient officials, the state government Friday gave compulsorily retirement to nine officials with immediate effect.
Of the nine officials, seven have been terminated on corruption charges while two others have been removed for their inefficiency in delivering services. With this, a total of 113 government servants have so far been given compulsory retirement in the state.
Sources said two mines department officials, one forest official and one assistant engineer of Public Health Engineering Organisation (PHEO) were asked to retire Friday.
Five officials were given compulsory retirement a few days ago, official sources said.
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