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Covid-19 cases in India dip; Kerala adds 374 backlog deaths
India has reported 2,09,918 new coronavirus disease (Covid-19) cases and 959 related deaths in the past 24 hours, according to Union Health Ministry data updated at 8am on Monday. This brings the country’s total Covid-19 cases to 4,10,92,522, while the death toll climbed to 4,95,050.
The higher death toll reported in the new 24-hour period came as Kerala added 374 deaths to its backlog in Monday’s tally.
Active cases reached 18,31,268, while the daily positivity rate was 15.77%.
Daily Covid-19 cases across the country have been falling since the past few days, which can be seen as a sign that the third wave of the pandemic, driven by the Omicron variant of the coronavirus, is subsiding.
The daily number of Covid-19 infections fell by 24,363 on Monday, compared with a high of 2,34,281 reported on Sunday.
According to the Ministry of Health, 2,62,628 people have recovered from the viral illness in the past 24 hours, bringing the total number of recoveries to date to 3,89,76,122. The current recovery rate is 94.37%.
As many as 1.6603 billion doses have been administered so far in the ongoing nationwide coronavirus vaccination campaign, according to government figures.
The number of cases in India crossed the 10 million mark on December 19, 2020, 20 million last May 4, and 30 million last June 23.
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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.
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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