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According the Union Ministry of Health and Family welfare , the new cases in India reported in last 24 hours are 20,035 and 23,181recoveries were registered.

India’s total active caseload is continuously showing downward trend.It has significantly dropped to 2.54 lakh today which is the lowest after 179 days.

India’s present active caseload is just 2.47%.

The 77.91% recovery cases are from 10 States/UT’s.Kerala is reporting more than five thousand cases and Maharashtra is reporting more than three thousand cases.

The BJP’s Former National General Secretary Ram Madhav visited Hyderbad to attend the program conducted by the Dr K Satheesh Kumar Reddy who is member of the Dental Council of India and President of Andhra Pradesh State Dental Council.The focus of program was about the various facets of health care delivery systems India, abroad and way forward in the country, Ram Madhav stressed the importance of working together with all stakeholders to progress towards Universal Health Coverage in the country where people can access quality health services, when and where they need them, without suffering financial hardship.

The program was attended by Dr Nageswar Reddy [CMD] AIG Hospitals , Dr. Ravindranath [CMD]Global Hospitals, Dr. Gopichand [CMD]Star Hospitals, Dr. Ramesh kancharala [CMD]Rainbow hospitals, Dr Gurava Reddy [CMD]Sunshine hospitals, Dr Parthasarathy [CMD] FMS group of hospitals Dr Navneet Sagar Yashoda hospitals ,Dr Rajneesh Apollo hospitals, Dr Bhaskar Rao [CMD] GSL group of educational institutes and Dr Vamsi Krishna Reddy secretary Indian association of public health dentistry.

India to start dry run countrywide to keep the vaccination machinery well prepared on 2nd Jan 2021, “Only on Saturday 2nd January all States will have a dry run at selected sites.” Confirms Sr official to The medically speaking

Covid-19 vaccine declaration can be done by the drug controller general of India tomorrow after reviewing the data submitted by both the Serum Institute of India and Bharat Biotech

The review of the preparedness of a few sites for vaccine administration has been already done in four states.

“The objective of the Dry Run for COVID-19 vaccine introduction is to assess operational feasibility in the use of Co-WIN application in the field environment, to test the linkages between planning and implementation and to identify the challenges and guideway forward prior to actual implementation. This is also expected to give confidence to programme managers at various levels.” the central government said

The planning for the vaccine introduction will be as per the Operational Guidelines issued by the Ministry on 20th December 2020. For each of the three Session Sites, the concerned Medical Officer In-charge will identify 25 test beneficiaries (healthcare workers). The States/UTs have been asked to ensure that the data of these beneficiaries is uploaded in Co-WIN. These beneficiaries will also be available at the session site for the dry run. The States and UTs shall prepare the facilities and users to be created on CoWIN application including uploading the data of Health Care Worker (HCW) beneficiaries.

“States/UTs were also asked to address the communication challenges by taking in confidence all the concerned stakeholders and by augmenting the community engagement ‘Jan bhagidari’ through innovative strategies. Detailed checklist has been prepared by the Union Health Ministry and shared with the States/UTs to guide them in the dry run,” the government said in a press release

The UK Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) has provided authorization for the emergency supply of COVID-19 vaccine.

“The authorisation recommends two doses administered with an interval of between four and 12 weeks.This regimen was shown in clinical trials to be safe and effective at preventing symptomatic COVID-19,with no severe cases and no hospitalisations more than 14 days after the second dose.” says the statement released by AstraZeneca

“Today is an important day for millions of people in the UK who will get access to this new vaccine. It has been shown to be effective, well-tolerated, simple to administer, and is supplied by AstraZeneca at no profit. We would like to thank our many colleagues at AstraZeneca, Oxford University, the UK government, and the tens of thousands of clinical trial participants.” said Pascal Soriot, Chief Executive Officer

“This is a moment to celebrate British innovation – not only are we responsible for discovering the first treatment to reduce mortality for Covid-19, this vaccine will be made available to some of the poorest regions of the world at a low cost, helping protect countless people from this awful disease. It is a tribute to the incredible UK scientists at Oxford University and AstraZeneca whose breakthrough will help to save lives around the world. I want to thank every single person who has been part of this British success story. While it is a time to be hopeful, it is so vital everyone continues to play their part to drive down infections.” said Matt Hancock, UK Secretary of State for Health and Social Care

According to the given the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare about new variant cases of SARS-Cov-2 virus in India of UK returnees have increased to 20 as a total . India has increased genome sequencing in 10 different labs, which was earlier in just 5 labs. These cases have been reported from Delhi and Bangaluru.

These positive cases have been isolated.

India’s principal scientific adviser Vijay Raghavan during press briefing informed about the new variant of coronavirus detected in India also in Covid-19 patients traveled from the UK is spreading rapidly in UK.

“Vaccines will work against the variants detected in UK and South Africa. There is no evidence that current vaccines will fail to protect against these #COCID19 variants.” said Prof K. Vijay Raghavan

“The major population is still susceptible to #COVID19 infection in this cold weather.UK variant has travelled to several other countries and also to India, this variant may have its own run & we have to very careful. One can’t be careless V K Paul, Member (Health), Niti Aayog

During a press briefing, Health Secretary Rajesh Bhushan also informed about genome sequencing in 10 labs across the country, “India has done prior to the news about UK variant roughly 5,000 genome sequences across labs. Now we’ll be significantly increasing that number and would be working in a coordinated manner.”

By Dr Suneet Khanna

OBESITY IS ABOUT WILLPOWER NOT BIOLOGY
Obesity is a very complex disorder.There are many genetic, biological & environmental factors that have a major effect on body weight. It is not about will power.

EAT LESS MOVE MORE ‘ is a good advice
Telling people with weight problems to just “eat less move more”is ineffective advice.It rarely work’s in the long term. Its like telling someone with depression to cheer up.

CARBS MAKE YOU FAT
Low carb diets are very effective for weight loss. However carbs are not what causes obesity in the first place.The truth is whole foods that are high in carbs are very healthy.

FAT MAKES YOU FAT
Fat has often been blamed for the obesity epidemic,but there is nothing inherently fattening about dietary fat.Yet eating a lot of fat along with a high carb, high calorie junk food based diet, will definitely make you fat.

EATING BREAKFAST IS NECESSARY TO LOSE WEIGHT
It is true that breakfast skippers tend to weigh more than breakfast eaters.
Eat when you are hungry, stop when you are full.

FAST FOOD IS ALWAYS FATTENING- Fast food does not have to be unhealthy or fattening.Most fast food chains offer some healthier alternatives to their main offerings.Such as chicken skewers/ steak with baked potato or chicken salads with avocado dip

WEIGHT LOSS DIETS ACTUALLY WORK-Dieting usually doesn’t work in long term. Most people gain the weight back. If you manage to increase your activity levels, eat healthier ( take professional
help ) & sleep better, then weight loss will be easier.

“Diet” FOOD CAN HELP YOU LOSE WEIGHT
A lot of junk food is marketed as healthy. Examples include low fat food, fat free foods, processed gluten-free foods & disguised high sugar beverages. A good thumb rule – if the packaging of a food tells you its healthy then probably its bad for you.

The writer is Dr. Suneet Khanna who is Diet Doctor at The westside clinic.

According to the information released by the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, “A total of 6 samples of 6 UK returnee persons have been found to be positive with the new U.K variant genome. 3 in NIMHANS, Bengaluru, 2 in CCMB, Hyderabad, and 1 in NIV, Pune.”

“All these persons have been kept in single room isolation in designated Health Care facilities by respective State Governments. Their close contacts have also been put under quarantine. Comprehensive contact tracing has been initiated for co-travelers, family contacts, and others. Genome sequencing on other specimens is going on.” release given by ministry

The positive samples of the eight returnees have been sent to 10 INSACOG labs fro genome sequencing.

The presence of the new UK variant has reported in many countries tiill now . the Aistralia, Netherlands, Italy , Sweden , France , Spain , Switzerland , Germany , Canada, Japna , Lebanon and Singapore , so far, the release given by ministry.

The government of Inida has also ordered a mandatory testing of all UK returnee air passengers through RT-PCR test.

The new strain spreading in Britain is 70 percent more contagious than the original version, scientists have warned in a study. They have urged a fast vaccine rollout to help prevent more deaths.

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The dry run for vaccine rollout has been started in India from today onwards. Gujarat is also one among other states that have been selected by the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare for a dry run for vaccine rollout. It includes 2 districts of Gujarat.Today dry run for vaccine rollout held at a center in Adalaj, Gandhinagar.

“Today we mapped out everything, dummy vaccines will be administered tomorrow to 25 people,” said Superintendent of the Centre

The Two-day dry run being held today in States like Andhra Pradesh, Assam, Gujarat&Punjab.In each state two districts have been selected for dry run for vaccine rollout. The dry run will involve health workers, Asha workers, trainers, task force etc.