With the festival of lights - Diwali around, this year, the celebration warrants safe and protective approach as we badge the global phase of the Post-COVID period.
With the festival of lights - Diwali around, this year, the celebration warrants safe and protective approach as we badge the global phase of the Post-COVID period.
Among the six deceased, four were under treatment at King George s Medical University (KGMU) and two at Sanjay Gandhi Post Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences (SGPGIMS).
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LUCKNOW: Even as a deadly second wave of Covid-19 ravages the city, doctors are coming across cases of a rare infection mucormycosis, also known as the ‘black fungus’, among recovering and recovered Covid-19 patients.
Doctors at the King George’s Medical University said they have witnessed at least seven cases of this infection in three months. Four patients are still recovering in Covid ICU ward of the medical university. The disease affects the sinuses, brain and lungs and can be life-threatening in diabetic or severely immunocompromised individuals, such as cancer patients or people with HIV/AIDS, doctors said, adding that it is also found in Covid patients on prolonged use of steroids.