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Time of India
4 days ago
- Health
- Time of India
After uptick, Covid cases & deaths decline
New Delhi: After nearly a month of surge, Covid-19 cases and deaths due to the virus are on the decline. The number of active cases, which had crossed 7,000 on June 11, has declined to 4,425, govt data shows. One fatality was recorded in the last 24 hours in Nagpur. "Covid-19 is now endemic. It is not a serious threat. That's why many people aren't getting themselves tested even when symptoms surface," said a senior doctor. The virus is causing mild fever with most patients recovering at home in 2 to 3 days. "Only those with co-morbidities such as cancer, kidney disease and heart disease need to take extra care," the doctor added. Dr Rommel Tickoo, director of internal medicine at Max Saket, said: "We don't advise Covid tests for everyone with fever, cough and cold. But due to the panic and anxiety caused by a surge in cases in the last few weeks, some patients have come to us with positive Covid tests. Treatment involves symptomatic management and rest. In case of Covid or Covid-like symptoms, we also advise keeping away from others to check the spread of infection," he said. Dr Arjun Khanna, who heads pulmonology department at Amrita hospital, Faridabad, said that one new feature of the current wave is that Covid-19 has become clinically less distinct from other viral respiratory infections.
Time of India
5 days ago
- Health
- Time of India
Covid-19 wave ebbs; cases, fatalities on the decline; doctors now advise rest, not tests
NEW DELHI: After nearly a month of surge, Covid-19 cases and deaths due to the virus are on the decline. The number of active cases, which had crossed 7,000 on June 11, has declined to 4,425, govt data shows. Tired of too many ads? go ad free now One fatality was recorded in the last 24 hours. "Covid-19 is now endemic. It is not a serious threat. That's why many people aren't getting themselves tested even when symptoms surface," said a senior doctor. The virus is causing mild fever with most patients recovering at home in 2 to 3 days. "Only those with co-morbidities such as cancer, kidney disease and heart disease need to take extra care," the doctor added. tnn Dr Rommel Tickoo, director of internal medicine at Max Saket, said: "We don't advise Covid tests for everyone with fever, cough and cold. But due to the panic and anxiety caused by a surge in cases, some patients have come to us with positive Covid tests. Treatment involves symptomatic management and rest. In case of Covid or Covid-like symptoms, we also advise keeping away from others to check the spread of infection," he said. Dr Arjun Khanna, who heads pulmonology department at Amrita hospital, Faridabad, said that one new feature of the current wave is that Covid-19 has become clinically less distinct from other viral respiratory infections.
Straits Times
17-06-2025
- Business
- Straits Times
Immigration raids in Los Angeles hit small business owners: ‘It's worse than Covid'
A third of California's workers are immigrants and 40 per cent of its entrepreneurs are foreign-born. PHOTO: REUTERS LOS ANGELES - Mr Juan Ibarra stands outside his fruit and vegetable outlet in Los Angeles' vast fresh produce market, the place in the city centre where Hispanic restauranteurs, street vendors and taco truck operators buy supplies every day.. On the morning of June 16 , the usually bustling market was largely empty. Since Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials began conducting immigration raids more than a week ago, including at a textile factory two blocks away, Mr Ibarra said business has virtually dried up. His street vendor customers are at home in hiding, while restaurant workers are too scared to travel to the market to pick up supplies. Most of the market's 300 workers who are in the US illegally have stopped showing up. Mr Ibarra, who pays US$8,500 (S$10,900) a month in rent for his outlet, which sells grapes, pineapples, melons, peaches, tomatoes and corn, usually takes in about US$2,000 on a normal day. Now, it's US$300, if he's lucky. Shortly before he spoke to Reuters, he had for the first time since the ICE raids began been forced to throw out rotten fruit. He has to pay a garbage company US$70 a pallet to do that. 'It's pretty much a ghost town,' Mr Ibarra said. 'It's almost Covid-like. People are scared. We can only last so long like this – a couple of months maybe.' Mr Ibarra, 32, who was born in the US to Mexican parents and is a US citizen, is not alone in seeing President Donald Trump's crackdown on immigrants in the country illegally devastate his small business. It is happening across Los Angeles and California, other business owners and experts say, and threatens to significantly damage the local economy. A third of California's workers are immigrants and 40 per cent of its entrepreneurs are foreign-born, according to the American Immigration Council. The Trump administration, concerned about the economic impacts of his mass deportation policy, shifted its focus in recent days, telling ICE to pause raids on farms, restaurants and hotels. The ICE raids triggered protests in Los Angeles, which prompted Mr Trump to send National Guard troops and US Marines into the city, against the wishes of California's Democratic Governor Gavin Newsom. Ms Abigail Jackson, a White House spokeswoman, said violent protesters in Los Angeles had created an unsafe environment for local businesses. 'It's the Democrat riots – not enforcement of federal immigration law – that is hurting small businesses,' Ms Jackson told Reuters. Restaurant slump The recent shift in focus by Mr Trump and ICE has been no help for Mr Pedro Jimenez, 62, who has run and owned a Mexican restaurant in a largely working class, Hispanic neighborhood in Los Angeles for 24 years. Many in his community are so scared of ICE they are staying home and have stopped frequenting his restaurant. Mr Jimenez, who crossed into the US illegally but received citizenship in 1987 after former Republican President Ronald Reagan signed legislation granting amnesty to many immigrants without legal status, said he is taking in US$7,000 a week less than he was two weeks ago. O n June 13 and 14, he closed at 5pm, rather than 9pm, because his restaurant was empty. 'This is really hurting everybody's business,' he said. 'It's terrible. It's worse than Covid.' Mr Andrew Selee, president of the non-partisan Migration Policy Institute, said the Trump administration began its immigration crackdown by focusing on people with criminal convictions. But that has shifted to workplace raids in the past two weeks, he said. 'They are targeting the hard working immigrants who are most integrated in American society,' Mr Selee said. 'The more immigration enforcement is indiscriminate and broad, rather than targeted, the more it disrupts the American economy in very real ways.' Across Los Angeles, immigrants described hunkering down, some even skipping work, to avoid immigration enforcement. Mr Luis, 45, a Guatemalan hot dog vendor who asked to be identified only by his first name for fear of being targeted by ICE, said he showed up this weekend at the Santa Fe Springs swap meet – a flea market and music event. He was told by others that ICE officers had just been there. He and other vendors without legal immigration status quickly left, he said. 'This has all been psychologically exhausting,' he said. 'I have to work to survive, but the rest of the time, I stay inside.' REUTERS Join ST's Telegram channel and get the latest breaking news delivered to you.
Time of India
17-06-2025
- Health
- Time of India
Covid-19: With 11 deaths, current wave toll in country past 100-mark
Representative image NEW DELHI: The country's death toll due to Covid-19 has crossed the 100-mark, reaching 108 after as many as 11 deaths were reported on Monday - the highest in a day in the current wave. Kerala reported seven deaths, while a death each occurred in Delhi, Maharashtra, Chhattisgarh and Madhya Pradesh. The seven victims from Kerala, which has been worst affected by the surge in Covid cases over the past few weeks, were all above 60 and had comorbidities such as cancer, pancreatitis, kidney disease and pneumonia. The victim from Delhi was a 67-year-old man with a history of lung cancer. Senior officials in the health ministry reiterated that most of those who have died due to Covid had co-morbidities, like cancer, kidney disease and heart disease. Kerala has the maximum number of active cases (1,920), followed by Gujarat (1,433), Delhi (649) and Maharashtra (540). Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan and Haryana have also reported a few Covid-19 cases over the past week. It is suspected that the current surge in cases is being caused by emergence of new sub-variants of the coronavirus that can breach immunity developed through past infection and vaccination. However, experts say these aren't causing severe symptoms. Dr Rommel Tickoo, director of internal medicine at Max Saket, said there is no cause for panic as most patients with the infection have mild symptoms, as surface with the common flu. "We don't advise a Covid test for everyone with fever, cough and cold, though some patients have come to us with positive Covid tests. Treatment involves symptomatic management and rest. In case of Covid or Covid-like symptoms, we advise keeping away from others," he said. Official sources have maintained that most cases are being managed under home care. However, directives have been issued to all states to check facility-level preparedness and ensure availability of oxygen, isolation beds, ventilators, and essential medicines as a precautionary measure.
Yahoo
13-06-2025
- Health
- Yahoo
People with Covid-like symptoms took almost a year before feeling like themselves again, researchers say
Did you have Covid-like symptoms? It may take nine months or even longer to start feeling like yourself again. Researchers at UCLA found that 20 percent of patients with those symptoms continued experiencing suboptimal quality of life for nearly a year after infection. Whereas, physical well-being returned after only three months. "We have newly recognized the difference in recovery with respect to mental vs. physical well-being after a COVID infection," Lauren Wisk, an assistant professor of medicine at UCLA, said in a statement. "The findings showed that health care professionals need to pay more attention to their patients' mental well-being after a Covid infection and provide more resources that will help improve their mental health, in addition to their physical health,' she added. Wisk was one of the lead authors of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention-funded study that was published Tuesday in the journal Open Forum Infectious Diseases. The study compared people who sought treatment for Covid-like symptoms. Of those, 75 percent tested positive for the virus. The rest were negative. Of the 4,700 participants who experienced the symptoms between mid-December 2020 and late August 2022, the people who were positive for Covid were statistically likelier to return to optimal health-related quality-of-life than their Covid-negative counterparts in the year following the infection. The authors said the findings suggest that health authorities may have previously underestimated the long-term effects of non-Covid infections on a patient's well-being. To reach these conclusions, researchers analyzed responses from nearly 1,100 Covid-positive patients and 317 Covid-negative negative patients, assessing aspects including physical function, anxiety, depression, fatigue, social participation, sleep disturbance, pain interference and cognitive function. They found that approximately one in five of those who were part of the study remained in poor overall quality of life, with a high likelihood of self-reporting long Covid for up to a year after initial infection. 'In this large, geographically diverse study of individuals with 12 months of follow-up after Covid-19-like illness, a substantial proportion of participants continued to report poor [overall quality of life], whether or not the inciting acute symptoms were due to SARS-CoV-2 or another illness,' they said. Mental well-being recovered gradually, with significant improvements manifesting between six and nine months after infection, researchers found. The authors said further research was needed, noting that it remains unclear which conditions the symptomatic Covid-negative patients were suffering from and that Covid tests can yield both false-positive and false-negative results. The common cold, allergies, flu and Covid share many similar symptoms. "Future research should focus on how to improve the treatment models of care for patients who continue to experience Covid-19 symptoms and their impact on patients' quality of life, especially as one in five patients may continue to suffer over a year after their initial infection, which likely reflects long Covid," Wisk said.
