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Volunteers drive an ambulance amidst the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic, in Bengaluru, India, May 18, 2021. Reuters/Samuel Rajkumar
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Bengaluru: India has ordered tighter surveillance of a rare fungal disease hitting COVID-19 patients, officials said on Thursday, piling pressure on hospitals struggling with the world s highest number of daily infections of the novel coronavirus.
Mucormycosis, or black fungus usually infects people whose immune system has been compromised, causing blackening or discolouration over the nose, blurred or double vision, chest pain, breathing difficulties and coughing blood.
Doctors believe that the use of steroids to treat severe COVID-19 could be causing the rash of cases because those drugs reduce immunity and push up sugar levels.
States across India ordered emergency measures Thursday to counter a surge in the rare deadly 'black fungus' infection among coronavirus sufferers.Two new states declared epidemics of Mucormycosis while New Delhi and other major cities have opened special wards to treat thousands of cases of the infection commonly known as a black fungus. India normally.