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India Covid-19 cases: Daily caseload drops to 149,394; total deaths top 500,000

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India Covid-19 cases: Daily caseload drops to 149,394; total deaths top 500,000

Daily Covid-19 cases in India fell sharply on Friday, with as many as 149,394 people testing positive for the viral disease, data released by the Union Health Ministry showed. That’s 13% higher than Thursday, when the daily total of infections was 172,433. At the same time, the number of related deaths rose by 1,072, compared with 1,008 a day earlier, the announcement showed.

This brings the cumulative number of infections to 41,952,712, of which 500,055 have died. India is now the third country after the US (896,557) and Brazil (630,301) to have more than 500,000 deaths from the virus.

The total case count also includes a total of 40,017,088 recoveries, of which 246,674 patients recovered in the past 24 hours. The total number of active cases was 1,435,569, a decrease of 98,352 infections.

Recovery, active cases, and deaths accounted for 95.39%, 3.42%, and 1.19% of the cumulative total, respectively.

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In terms of vaccinations, nearly 1.7 billion doses of the Covid-19 vaccine have been administered since the nationwide vaccination started on January 16 last year. As many as 5,558,760 of them have been administered in the past 24 hours, the ministry’s bulletin shows.

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Covid infection linked to more type 1 diabetes in kids and teens: Study

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Covid infection linked to more type 1 diabetes in kids and teens: Study

Two studies that did not definitively resolve the question of whether the coronavirus can cause the chronic disease of diabetes found that Covid-19 in children and adolescents appeared to increase the chance of acquiring diabetes. Over two years after the pandemic’s commencement, researchers from the Norwegian Institute of Public Health looked at new type 1 diabetes diagnoses using national health registries. They discovered that type 1 diabetes was roughly 60% more likely to develop in children who had tested positive for the coronavirus.

The risk within 30 days of a Covid infection confirmed by a PCR test was examined by the researchers. Young adults were also included in a Scottish study that was presented at the European Link for the Study of Diabetes meeting. This study indicated an increased risk one month following the viral sickness, but the researchers said they discovered no association after that point.

The authors of both studies emphasised that their findings do not necessarily imply a causal link between diabetes and the coronavirus. Other potential causes were emphasised, such as delays in seeking medical attention during the epidemic, the introduction of other diseases, and alterations in way of life brought on by lockdowns.

Jamie Hartmann-Boyce, an associate professor at the Nuffield department of primary care health sciences at the University of Oxford, stated: “There are a lot of plausible reasons that Covid-19 might lead to development of type 1 diabetes, but this remains in no way proved.”
According to a paper earlier this week in the medical journal The Lancet, the number of people with type 1 diabetes, in which the pancreas fails to generate the hormone insulin, may increase from 8.4 million to 17.4 million by the year 2040.

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The illness, which has no known treatment and is most frequently diagnosed in children, is thought to be caused by a combination of genetics and exposure to particular pathogens, including SARS-Cov-2 as well as a larger family of viruses known as enteroviruses. Type 2 diabetes, which is more prevalent, typically appears later in life as sedentary habits and weight increase mess with the body’s ability to manage sugar.

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