COVID TESTS

COVID TESTS

Covid tests have come under media focus after the recent controversial tests of many people conducted by Covid hospital of Srinagar known as Chest Disease Hospital of Dalgate. Earlier also many people complained to media that they were shown positive to Covid-19 by this hospital and when they conducted the same tests in other government […]

Bollywood actor Sushant Singh Rajput commits suicide

Bollywood actor Sushant Singh Rajput commits suicide

Famed Bollywood actor Sushant Singh Rajput has committed suicide on Sunday. He was found hanging at his Bandra residence in Mumbai. The actor was 34. Expressing shock at his death, Anurag Kashyap tweeted, “Wtf .. this is not true.” Gauahar Khan wrote, “Wtf ????? What is happening.” The actor’s former manager Disha Salian reportedly committed […]

Military build-up, Covid spike hit life in Ladakh

Military build-up, Covid spike hit life in Ladakh

Srinagar: After a few decades, the Ladakh regaion is witnessing its first summer without tourists and Covid-19 spike again. Many villages, both in Kargil and Leh, are facing uncertain days due to a massive military build-up in the region. “Such uncertainty and threat to our lives is unprecedented,” a local journalist from Kargil told this reporter. […]

Health ministry issues revised clinical management protocols for Covid-19 and spurt in cases

Health ministry issues revised clinical management protocols for Covid-19 and spurt in cases

As the number of Covid-19 cases crossed the three lakh-mark, the government on Saturday came out with a revised treatment protocol to deal with the deadly infection, allowing use of antiviral drug Remdesivir in moderate cases and Hydroxychloroquine in patients during the early course of the disease. It also recommended an off-label application of Tocilizumab, […]

Kashmir’s 98 percent population susceptible to Covid-19 infection: DAK

Kashmir’s 98 percent population susceptible to Covid-19 infection: DAK

Srinagar, June 13 (KNS): Doctors Association Kashmir (DAK) on Saturday said 98 percent population in Kashmir valley is still susceptible to the novel coronavirus. “Only two percent of the valley’s population is immune to Covid-19 infection,” said DAK President Dr Nisar ul Hassan. “A sero-surveillance study conducted in Pulwama district of Kashmir valley by ICMR […]