The Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) has found a total of 192 Covid-19 cases of the new variants of mutated SARS-CoV-2 in last two months, including four from the variant emerging in South Africa and one from the Brazilian variant, officials said on Tuesday. The remaining cases are all of the UK variant. ICMR Director General, Prof Balram Bhargava, however, noted that no mortality has been reported so far in the cases who contracted the UK variant as well as those who are infected by the variants from South Africa and Brazil. About the SA variant, better known as B.1.351, Bharagava said that its cases were reported in January in four returnees from African countries.
The Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) has found a total of 192 Covid-19 cases of the new variants of mutated SARS-CoV-2 in last two months, including four from the variant emerging in South Africa and one from the Brazilian variant, officials said on Tuesday.
In view of five cases of Covid-19 caused by mutant variants emerging in South Africa and Brazil being found in India, the Union Health Ministry on Tuesday said that it is in discussions with the Civil Aviation Ministry to see if the strategy of .
World Cancer Day | Northeast India has high burden of cancer: ICMR-NCDIR
World Cancer Day | Northeast India has high burden of cancer: ICMR-NCDIR
The report by the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) and the National Centre for Disease Informatics & Research (NCDIR) stated that the number of new cancer cases in the Northeast region (NER) is likely to increase to 57,131 by 2025
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Probability of developing cancer over a lifetime is as high as one in every four men and one in every six women in Kamrup Urban of Assam. This was revealed in a report titled, Profile of cancer and related health indicators in the Northeast Region of India . The report is a collaborative study by the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) and the National Centre for Disease Informatics & Research (NCDIR), Bengaluru.
The state recorded 1.4 lakh air pollution-linked deaths while UP recorded the highest with 3.5 lakh deaths
MUMBAI: Maharashtra, which has safer air parameters than many north Indian states, is second in the statewise list of premature deaths due to air pollution in 2019. The state recorded 1.4 lakh air pollution-linked deaths while UP recorded the highest with 3.5 lakh deaths. The all-India figure is 17 lakh deaths 18% of all the fatalities in 2019; corresponding percentage for state is 16.7.
Air pollution robs state’s GDP of nearly Rs 7,200cr
Maharashtra is second in the country after Uttar Pradesh on premature deaths caused by air pollution in 2019. The finding is part of a scientific paper published by the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) in The Lancet Planetary Health. The study was conducted for ICMR’s State-Level Disease Burden Initiative along with Public Health Foundation of India and the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation.