An intensive care unit in India. Credit: AP
A Covid variant first discovered in India, also referred to as a double mutant variant, could be behind the country s deepening Covid crisis, the ministry of health has admitted.
Dubbed the India variant, B.1.617 was first found in March, and has 15 mutations compared to the original virus.
It comes as seven cases of the India variant of Covid-19 were identified in Northern Ireland.The cases, confirmed on Thursday, are the first of the variant in the province to be identified in the province.
Relatives of a person who died of Covid-19 mourn outside a field hospital in Mumbai. Credit: Rafiq Maqbool/AP
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Participants body weight was significantly reduced by 8.55kg.
After five months of adherence to the diet plan, participants showed a significant decrease in their total cholesterol and LDL cholesterol, an increase in the HDL cholesterol, the good cholesterol, and a significant reduction in blood sugar levels.
Overall, the study results suggest that Nic s Keto Diet may be used to improve body composition and markers of cardiovascular health.
Professor Nikolaos Tzenios is a Professor of Public Health, Fellow of The Royal Society for Public Health (UK), Fellow of the AMERICAN ACADEMY OF ANTI-AGING MEDICINE, ASSOCIATE ACADEMICIAN of the International Academy of Social Sciences, Member of the American Academy of Regenerative Medicine, Member of The European Academy of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, Member of the Royal Society of Biology and a Postgraduate student at Global
Scientists are warning that drinking water supplies in parts of rural West Africa are being contaminated by lead-containing materials used in community handpumps and public taps.
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Scientists are warning that drinking water supplies in parts of rural West Africa are being contaminated by lead-containing materials used in small community water systems such as boreholes with handpumps and public taps.
They analysed scrapings taken from the plumbing of 61 community water supply systems in Ghana, Mali and Niger. Eighty percent of the tested systems had at least one component that contained lead in excess of international guidance.
Lead is released into the water when the components corrode.
The study, by a research team from the University of Leeds, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Boston University, also took samples of the water from those 61 water distribution systems, and from a further 200 taps and boreholes with handpumps.
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