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At-home test kits are on the rise due to Omicron, but how accurately can nasal swabs detect Covid?But the rapid spread of the omicron variant, and questions about the sensitivity of at-home tests, have rekindled a debate over whether the...- Autopsy finds Covid-19 patient’s lungs ‘hard as a leather ball’Dr Dinesh Rao of Oxford Medical College, who performed the autopsy, said the lungs of the 62-year-old patient were “hard as a leather ball”...
- Viral infection or coronavirus? How Covid-19 smell, taste loss differs from common cold, decodedSmell loss is much more profound in the Covid-19 patents, and they are less able to identify smells.
- Investments in sports, health bailed me out: Kaustav Ganguly, MD, Alvarez and MarsalOne of the first things I did as soon as I started showing symptoms was to quarantine myself in a room, avoiding all contact with family. F...
- Suspecting Covid? Stanford recommends self-swabbing for accurate & safer test resultsTest samples collected by people who swabbed their own nasal passages yielded more accurate results.
- India brings down corona test swab price to one-tenthAs capacity scales up, India may soon begin to export corona test swabs to other nations.
- As cotton swabs run out, ICMR looks at polyesterUntil last month, polyester swabs were not manufactured in India and were imported from the US or China. With global demand for this produc...
- ICMR issues advisory for rapid antibody-based blood tests for COVID-19India will now start rapid antibody based blood tests in clusters or evacuee centres.
- Low-cost indigenous swab for coronavirus testing developedAs per the guidelines of the Centre for Disease Control and Prevention, polymer swab is used for collection of a sample from the upper resp...
- How can you find out if you have Coronavirus? You will have to take one of these 5 testsHere we try to collate the relevant info on how it is being tested and found out if one has caught coronavirus that has already killed in t...
- 'New portable COVID-19 test can give results in 50 minutes'The new molecular test could be used to process 16 samples at a time -- or up to 384 samples if using a lab-based detection machine. The ki...
- Woman with no foreign tour history tests positive for Covid-19The woman, who is currently on ventilator support at Bharti Hospital, tested positive for the infection after her throat swabs were sent to...
- Nepal confirms first case of deadly coronavirusThe novel coronavirus originated in the central Chinese city of Wuhan, the capital of Hubei province. The coronavirus is a large family of ...
- One more person hospitalised for H1N1 influenzaAlready, three persons were undergoing treatment in the hospital after their admission in the last couple of days.
- HINI virus: Three more die, death toll crosses 50 markThree more persons, including one in worst-hit Pune, succumbed to the swine flu today, pushing the country-wide fatalities from the HINI pa...
- Swine flu claims four more lives, toll up to 33With the death of four people — two in Bangalore and one each in Aurangabad and Pune, the swine flu toll in the country mounted to 33.
- Suspected swine flu death in DelhiA 35-year-old woman suspected to be suffering from swine flu died at the Ram Manohar Lohia hospital here, doctors said on Thursday.
- Two more swine flu deaths in Bangalore, nation's toll at 27Two women, both aged 27, have succumbed to swine flu in this IT hub, raising the toll here due to the virus to five and across the country ...
- India's Swine flu toll goes down, not up!A trigger-happy admn wrongly ascribed 3 deaths in Pune on Wednesday & Thursday to the virus without waiting for test results. Pics: Swine f...
- Doc, chemist with H1N1 battle for lifeAs swine flu cases across the country rose, an ayurvedic doctor and a chemist infected with the H1N1 virus were battling for their lives on...
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