Delhi: SDMC issues new guidelines amid rise in Covid-19 cases

FILE-Mifepristone, the abortion pill known as RU 486. (Photo by James Leynse/Corbis via Getty Images) SIOUX FALLS, S.D. - It took two trips over state lines, navigating icy roads and a patchwork of state laws, for a 32-year-old South Dakota woman to get abortion pills last year.For abortion-seekers like her, such journeys, along with pills sent through the mail, will grow in importance if the Supreme Court follows through with its leaked draft opinion that would overturn the landmark Roe v.

COVID on Thursday, with 205 in intensive care.This is down by 22 for hospitalizations but an increase of six for ICUs since the previous day. Last Thursday, there were 1,661 hospitalizations with 202  in ICU.According to latest data for hospitalizations, 57 per cent were admitted for other reasons but tested positive for COVID-19. For those in ICUs, 35 per cent were admitted for other reasons.

World Health Organization is estimating that nearly 15 million died directly or indirectly from COVID-19 in 2020 and 2021.WHO provided a range of 13.3 million deaths to 16.6 million between Jan. 1, 2020, and Dec.

The study, published last week in the Journal of Exposure Science & Environmental Epidemiology, examined air and surface samples during an environmental surveillance programme from August 2020 until April 2021 at the University of Michigan (U-M) in the US. 

died of Covid-19 as well as those who died as an indirect result of the outbreak, including people who could not access healthcare for other conditions. 

LONDON - The World Health Organization is estimating that nearly 15 million people were killed either by the coronavirus or by its impact on overwhelmed health systems in the past two years, more than double the official death toll of 6 million. Most of the fatalities were in Southeast Asia, Europe and the Americas.In a report released on Thursday, the U.N.

#WATCH TMC is spreading rumours about CAA that it won't be implemented on ground, but I would like to say that we'll implement CAA on ground the moment Covid wave ends...Mamata Didi wants infiltration...CAA was, is & will be a reality:Union Home minister Amit Shah in Siliguri, WB pic.twitter.com/E1rYvN9bHM

LVIV, Ukraine - Ukraine's military said Thursday that it recaptured some areas in the south and repelled Russian attacks in the east, as a bloody battle raged at a steel mill in Mariupol where Ukrainian troops are holed up in tunnels and bunkers, fending off a Russian onslaught.Ten weeks into a devastating war, Ukrainian and Russian forces are fighting village by village, as Moscow struggles to gain momentum in the eastern industrial heartland of the Donbas. Russia switched its focus to that region — where Moscow-backed separatists have fought Ukrainian forces for years — after a stiffer than expected resistance bogged its troops down and thwarted its initial goal of overrunning the capital.In an interview with The Associated Press on Thursday, Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko said he hadn’t expected the Russian offensive to "drag on this way." Some Russian troops used ally Belarus as a launch pad for the invasion on Feb.

New estimates from the World Health Organization (WHO) show that the full death toll associated directly or indirectly with the COVID-19 pandemic (described as “excess mortality”) between 1 January 2020 and 31 December 2021 was approximately 14.9 million (range 13.3 million to 16.6 million). 

recall of over 100 kosher candy and chocolate products sold under the Elite brand due to the possibility of salmonella contamination. Strauss Israel, the food maker behind the products, said in a statement that the products were "manufactured in a facility in which salmonella was detected in the production line and in the liquid chocolate that is used for the production of the finished products."The recall includes certain Elite-branded chocolate, cakes, wafers, energy grain snacks, energy chocolate rice cakes, chewing gum and toffee candies. Click here for a full list of the 101 products on the FDA website.The impacted products were distributed mainly to stores in Florida, California, New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut and were sold online by Amazon, Passover.com, Fresh Direct and other retailers, the FDA’s notice said.A provided image shows one of the products impacted by the recall.

PHILADELPHIA - SEPTA officials say they will be adding new personnel from security firms to engage riders on trains and in stations. These new outreach workers will remind riders about  the rules for riding, assist destination-less riders, and serve as extra eyes and ears for SEPTA Transit Police, SEPTA says. SEPTA says several dozen of the workers are now deployed across the system. A press conference will be held Thursday morning at 11:30a.m. to introduce the workers to the public and provide an update on the transit authority’s efforts to increase safety and security. MORE SEPTA HEADLINES: The new addition comes after a recent string of violent attacks on SEPTA vehicles and properties.

NEW DELHI :

China has gone full pelt with its attempt to go Covid free as new video footage shows officials locking residents in their homes.And they're using huge padlocks and unbreakable cable to do it.Video footage posted on Chinese social media sites shows how residents who refuse to either stay inside or hand their keys over to officials are having wires drilled into their doors and padlocks used to stop them from leaving if they test positive.And another video shows one official drilling a hole in front of someone's door so that they can use metal bolts to stop them from getting out.According to independent Chinese news outlet Caixin Global, the measures are being taken in the northern Hebei province.Local sources have quoted the Qianan Pandemic Prevention and Control office as saying: “We are investigating and will modify the policy.“We are also looking into the possibility of installing alarms to replace current methods.”Up until May 4, China had a seven day average of 22,566 cases, with 14,731 positive cases just yesterday alone.Despite having 1 million cases since the pandemic started, the country has only suffered 5,141 deaths.The latest draconian measures came just a few weeks after we reported how workers in China's financial district in Shanghai were being forced to sleep in office for days.The stringent Covid policy came as positive cases escalated in the coastal city of Shanghai while local government vowed to keep the infectious separated in a two-stage lockdown.One of the measures is stop workers from returning home to avoid cross-infections.One worker, who works at a company in Shanghai Software Park, documented his horrendous life during the office lockdown and shared to viewers online.He received a notice that

Sharon Osbourne reveals she is flying home after husband Ozzy was diagnosed down with Covid but she promises to be back next week.@MrsSOsbourne | @OzzyOsbourne pic.twitter.com/sxlidvX5Tu‘We’ve gone two years without him catching Covid and it’s just Ozzy’s luck it would be now.’Talking about returning to Talk TV Sharon said: ‘I can’t believe my luck. I’m missing the show and I’ve only been there three days.

SHARON Osbourne revealed she's on a DRIP while being stuck in bed battling Covid. The TalkTV host jetted back to Los Angeles to nurse her sick husband Ozzy last week - and ended up catching the virus herself.

#Omicron sub-lineages ? Here's what we know so far. Also, please remember to take #COVID19 vaccine

NEW YORK, UNITED STATES - 2020/08/25: USPS sign on delivery truck in Flushing, Queens. USPS delays endanger 14M who wont get medications on time, report says.

#COVID19 after a negative. FDA admits it definitely happens but claims it’s only 1-2% with rebound in the trials, & no clinical guidance change. But I count more than 1%. https://t.co/qWPckRM2Db pic.twitter.com/kbpdETrVoh

Millions of people in Beijing returned to work this morning, many remotely, with scores of subway stations shut after a national holiday muted by the coronavirus curbs.

Health Ministry data.

Sharon Osbourne recently revealed that husband Ozzy had been stricken with COVID-19, and now she’s also been infected with the virus.

Hindustan Times report.

PHILADELPHIA - Pediatricians say they are seeing more kids getting sick, but not with the usual illnesses - and they are taking longer to bounce back.Some parents think it's just kids being kids, especially being back in school without masks now. "Just other kids being sick, and then they get spreading germs, it's really all the same," one mom said.Doctors are attributing the spike to allergy season, late flu and possibly COVID-19.One mom says her children, a 4-year-old and five-month-old, have been sick for much longer than past times."There is definitely the possibility that because we have been so isolated and masked over the last two years that it may lead to the observation that viruses are taking longer to overcome by the immune system," said Dr. Mike Cirigliano.However, lingering sickness isn't the only problem.

Covovax is now available for children in India.

Today we are reporting 8,609 community cases, 386 hospitalisations and 20 deaths.

From today, tamariki aged 5 to 11 who are severely immunocompromised can receive a third primary dose of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine.

TORONTO, ON - MAY 4: Aaron Judge #99 of the New York Yankees meets with Toronto Blue Jays fan Mike Lanzillotta (L) and Yankee fan Derek Rodriguez, 9, (2nd L) prior to a MLB game against the Toronto Blue Jays at Rogers Centre on May 4, 2022 in Toronto TORONTO - The young Yankees fan who became a viral sensation this week shed more tears of joy on Wednesday when he met his hero, New York slugger Aaron Judge.It came hours after cameras captured Derek Rodriguez, 9, tearfully hugging Blue Jays fan Mike Lanzillotta after Lanzillotta snagged Judge's sixth-inning home run ball and handed it to Derek.Rodriguez, his family and Lanzillotta were invited onto the field and into the Yankees dugout before Wednesday's series finale against the Blue Jays.Derek teared up again when Judge stopped by for a quick chat, signed the home run ball and handed over a pair of his batting gloves."That’s a moment that’s been seen around the world now," Judge said of the emotional exchange. "It just speaks volumes to the Blue Jays fans they have here.

Winnipeg Children’s Hospital Book Market say the fundraiser remains on hold and Winnipeggers are being asked to hold off on donating books for the normally-annual event.The book sale, traditionally held this time of year, has been on hiatus since the spring of 2020 when COVID-19 was first detected in Manitoba. Donating gifts to Children’s Hospital a different process this year, foundation says In a release Wednesday organizers say donations have been piling up ever since.“Volunteers have been unable to gather to sort and organize donated items,” reads the release.“Thanks to generous community members, there are still many donated books in storage and new ones cannot be accepted.”Winnipeggers are being asked not to drop books off at firehalls or Dufresne Furniture and Appliances stores until further notice.

FILE - U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas testifies before a Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Homeland Security, on Capitol Hill on May 04, 2022 in Washington, DC.

In the latest US COVID-19 developments, new poll findings highlight fairly high rates of hesitancy about vaccinating young children and the fact that people overwhelmingly feel safe at their worksites.

Though global COVID-19 cases overall continue to fall, illness levels rose in Africa and the Americas for the second week in a row, led by a trio of Omicron subvariants, the World Health Organization (WHO) said today in its weekly pandemic update.

GENEVA - Cooking oils are the latest commodity to be impacted by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. The United Nations says prices for world food commodities like grains and vegetable oils have reached their highest levels as a result of Russia’s military assault on its European neighbor. The U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) said last month that its Food Price Index, which tracks monthly changes in international prices for a basket of commodities, averaged 159.3 points last month, up 12.6% from February. The ongoing war has prompted a 17.1% rise in the price of grains, including wheat and others like oats, barley and corn.

NEW YORK - Hip Hop legend Kidd Creole has been sentenced to 16 years in prison for killing a stranger with a steak knife on a Manhattan street.The stabbing death of a homeless man took place in 2017 in Midtown.  A Manhattan jury found him guilty of first degree manslaughter last month.Kidd Creole, whose real name is Nathaniel Glover, is one of the founding fathers of hip hop as The Kidd Creole of Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five.Police had charged him with second-degree murder in the death of 55-year-old John Jolly.Tourists found Jolly wounded on East 44th Street near 3rd Avenue just before midnight on an August 2017 night.

COVID-19 patients already on ventilators don't benefit from remdesivir, but the antiviral drug offers a slight reduction in death or progression to ventilation among other hospitalized patients, according to final results from the adaptive World Health Organization's (WHO's) Solidarity randomized trial and an updated meta-analysis.

LOS ANGELES - Dolly Parton was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame on Wednesday, despite the country music legend’s decision to withdraw from the nomination in March. "I am honored and humbled by the fact that I have been inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame," Dolly Parton wrote on social media. "Of course, I will accept it gracefully.

WASHINGTON - The Federal Reserve intensified its fight against the worst inflation in 40 years by raising its benchmark short-term interest rate by a half-percentage point Wednesday — its most aggressive move since 2000 — and signaling further large rate hikes to come.The increase in the Fed's key rate raised it to a range of 0.75% to 1%, the highest point since the pandemic struck two years ago.The Fed also announced that it will start reducing its huge $9 trillion balance sheet, which consists mainly of Treasury and mortgage bonds. Those holdings more than doubled after the pandemic recession hit as the Fed bought trillions in bonds to try to hold down long-term borrowing rates.

It turns out there is crying in baseball … and it’s likely the most wholesome thing you’ll see this week.

The National Anti-Profiteering Authority (NAA) has begun processing a slew of complaints against pharmacies, drug retailers and hospitals for failing to pass on goods and services tax (GST) cuts on life saving drugs and equipment to consumers during the covid-19 pandemic.

Coronavirus infection rates across Greater Manchester fell by at least a quarter in every area. Over the past week the number of positive cases have continued to plummet across the region.

WASHINGTON (AP) - President Joe Biden on Wednesday highlighted new figures showing the government's red ink will grow less than expected this year and the national debt will shrink this quarter as he tried to counter criticism of his economic leadership amid growing dismay over inflation going into midterm elections that will decide control of Congress.Biden, embracing deficit reduction as a way to fight inflation, stressed that the dip in the national debt would be the first in six years, an achievement that eluded former President Donald Trump despite his promises to improve the federal balance sheet."The bottom line is the deficit went up every year under my predecessor before the pandemic and during the pandemic. It has gone down both years since I’ve been here," Biden said.

Why does the CRS data matter?

COVID-19 Wednesday afternoon.Dr. Deena Hinshaw and Jason Copping are scheduled to speak at 3:30 p.m. Global News will live stream the news conference in this story post.

LAS VEGAS, N.M. - New Mexico's governor on Tuesday asked President Joe Biden to declare a disaster as firefighters scrambled to clear brush, build fire lines and spray water to keep the largest blaze burning in the U.S. from destroying more homes in the foothills of the Rocky Mountains.During a briefing on the fire burning across the state's northeast, Gov.

TurboTax products sit on display at Costco on January 28, 2016 in Foster City, California. (Photo by Kimberly White/Getty Images for TurboTax) NEW YORK (AP) - The company behind the TurboTax tax-filing program will pay $141 million to customers across the United States who were deceived by misleading promises of free tax-filing services, New York's attorney general announced Wednesday.Under the terms of a settlement signed by the attorneys general of all 50 states, Mountain View, California-based Intuit Inc.

The national capital on Wednesday registered 1,354 fresh Covid-19 cases and one death in a span of 24 hours. Active Covid-19 cases in the city is at 5,853.

PTI.

the city since 25 February when 128 cases were detected.

COVID on Wednesday, with 199 in intensive care.This is down by one for hospitalizations and a decrease of three for ICUs since the previous day.Last Wednesday, there were 1,734 hospitalizations with 211 in ICU. This is a 2 per cent decrease and a 5.7 per cent decrease, respectively, to the figures this week.According to latest data for hospitalizations, 57 per cent were admitted for other reasons but tested positive for COVID-19.