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Arsenic Album 30 Homeo Immunity Booster against Covid-19: Case study done by a Panchayat in Kerala : Report by a large English Daily:

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Arsenic Album 30 Homeo Immunity Booster against Covid-19:   Case study done by a Panchayat in Kerala : Report by a large English Daily:   By Express News Service KOCHI: At a time when several grama panchayats are resorting to strict containment protocols to check local transmission of Covid-19, Kizhakkambalam grama panchayat claimed it has totally prevented local spread of the virus by carrying out an immunity booster programme covering 9,251 families. The panchayat run by Twenty20, the Kitex-backed non-profit organisation, said its protocol helped prevent local transmission despite two persons testing positive for Covid-19 in the area.   Twenty20 chief coordinator Sabu M Jacob said the panchayat authorities introduced the booster drive by providing free dosage of homoeopathy drug Arsenic Album 30, covering all the families in two phases. “In the first phase on March 29, 7,313 families were covered. Some other families were hesitant to take the medicine. In the sec...

Arsenic Album 30 Homeopathic drug for prevention of covid-19

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Arsenic Album 30 Homeopathic drug for prevention of covid-19     Holding prevention to be better than cure, citizens of many states in India are rushing to government homeopathy centers for doses of free immunity boosting homeopathic medicine, Arsenic Album 30 .  Karnataka has seen a drastic jump in the number of Covid-19 cases in the past few days, with a big surge in Bengaluru. Though these medicines were being given free of cost over the past few months, the rush has increased multifold in the past couple of days, in keeping with Covid cases.     A corporator of Mumbai, Maharastra state one of the worst covid-19 affected city in India, remembered seeing locals roaming around her area one day, although the lockdown was in effect. “They said they had taken Arsenicum album. It was scary; they believe this medicine can save them from coronavirus.   The Ayush Ministry, Government of India has recommended use of this homeo medicine for respiratory il...

Kerala plane crash: Commendable Rescue by locals

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  Kerala plane crash: Commendable Rescue by locals:  The local residents of  Karipur and Kondotty nearby localities of Calicut international airport in Malappuram district came running to the crash site within minutes and began carrying the injured passengers in whatever vehicles they got to hospitals braving heavy rains. Initially the locals were not allowed by the lone CISF personnel manning the periphery gate of the airport. When the airport security realized there were not enough personnel to rescue the injured, they allowed locals to start rescue operations and shift the injured on whatever vehicle they managed to catch before the ambulances began arriving. Despite the heavy rain and coming from Covid Containment Zone, the villagers entered the parted away aircraft and rescued each and every ill-fated passengers. This helped to complete the rescue operation of 191 passengers including 41 children and six crew within two hours thus considerably reduc...

Air plane crash at Calicut airport, Kerala, India

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Air plane crash at Calicut airport, Kerala, India An Air India Boeing 737- 800 passenger plane coming from Dubai skidded off the Calicut international airport in Kerala, India today evening killing about twenty people till writing this note.   More casualties are feared in this disaster. The plane had 191 passengers including 42 children and six crew. The rescue operations are in full swing now and the injured are being shifted to hospitals nearby.  The air plane said to have over shoot the runway and skidded off the runway of the table top airport into a gorge having a depth of around 35 feet.   The airport and its surrounding areas have been experiencing very heavy rain for the whole day today.  Due to the impact of the crash, the plane has broken into two pieces killing the pilot Capt. D.V.Sathe instantly and injuring the co-pilot seriously.  The flight was not a regular one and was ferrying Indian nationalities from UAE to India due to Covid-19...

Covid projections in India

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  Experts predicts 20 million COVID-19 Cases and 2.0 lakhs fatalities in India by close of this year -  ICMR Says Social Distancing can Reduce Spread by 62%. Three months ago, no one knew that a virus called SARS-CoV-2 would bring humanity to a halt. The outbreak, which started in December 2019 in Wuhan, China, has now spread to almost all countries and infected more than seven lakh people in India within a span of just three months. The deadly contagious virus has turned into a global pandemic — impacting businesses, travel, sports and day to day life of billions of people around the world. What’s the pattern of Virus spread? According to the World Health Organisation, the rapidly spreading COVID-19 took approximately 67 days (March 7) to infect the first one lakh persons. For the coronavirus to attack another one lakh population, the virus took 12 days (March 19). The next lakh of people contracted the infection in just four days—crossing the three lakh mark on March 23....

Is India prepared for an outbreak,Real picture after four months

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Is the world's second most populous country prepared for an outbreak of coronavirus? Mid March 2020, India says it was among the first countries in the world to prepare for an outbreak of the respiratory disease, which has already killed more than 3,000 people and spread to 60 countries. Health Minister Harsh Vardhan says India began screening people at airports from 17 January onwards, six days after Chinese state media reported the first known death from an illness caused by the virus and a good two weeks before the World Health Organization (WHO) declared it a global health emergency. As of 6 March, India has reported 31 cases, the majority of them in the past few days. They include 16 Italian tourists. There's growing anxiety. Schools have begun sending out advisories, a few offices have shut temporarily after employees tested positive for Covid-19.     By end March 2020, more than 600,000 people had been tested for the virus at the country's 21 airports and 77 ...

Coronavirus: What India can learn from the deadly 1918 flu

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  Coronavirus: What India can learn from the deadly 1918 flu       1918 flu pandemic is believed to have infected a third of the population worldwide All interest in living has ceased, Mahatma Gandhi, battling a vile flu in 1918, told a confidante at a retreat in the western Indian state of Gujarat. The highly infectious  Spanish flu  had swept through the ashram in Gujarat where 48-year-old Gandhi was living, four years after he had returned from South Africa. He rested, stuck to a liquid diet during "this protracted and first long illness" of his life. When news of his illness spread, a local newspaper wrote: "Gandhi's life does not belong to him - it belongs to India". Outside, the deadly flu, which slunk in through a ship of returning soldiers that docked in Bombay (now Mumbai) in June 1918, ravaged India. The disease, according to health inspector JS Turner, came "like a thief in the night, its onset rapid and insidious". A second wave...