Gurugram sees 3 more Covid deaths, youngest a 4-year-old; hospital infections a worry

Gurugram sees 3 more Covid deaths, youngest a 4-year-old; hospital infections a worry

GURUGRAM: A four-year-old girl with leukaemia was among three persons who died in the city on Friday after testing positive for Covid. Officials said she was the youngest Covid patient to have succumbed to the infection in the current wave so far.

The Times of India

Covid spreads among Indian healthcare workers as Omicron wave surges

Covid spreads among Indian healthcare workers as Omicron wave surges

The rising Covid-19 wave in India has affected the country’s healthcare system with a large number of doctors and health workers testing positive for the coronavirus disease.

Radio France Internationale

Long Covid returns, symptoms mild but persist for weeks

Long Covid returns, symptoms mild but persist for weeks

KOLKATA: The long Covid, in a form that is different from the second wave, is back with many among the infected feeling the impact of symptoms for weeks, a lingering weakness being the most common after-effect that’s refusing to go.

The Times of India

Doctors urge SA government to ease elective surgery freeze as private hospitals sit 'idle'

Surgeons say private hospitals in South Australia have the staff, operating theatres and beds to enable more elective surgeries.

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Health staff burdened with doctors, HCWs down with COVID

‘By the time the isolation period of one doctor is ending, another doctor is testing positive’

Another 10 deaths from COVID-19 in Queensland, 863 people in hospital

Health Minister Yvette D'Ath says there are now 863 people in hospital with COVID-19, with 47 patients in ICU. There are 85,112 active cases of the virus across the state.