Long Covid: 14.4 crore still grappling with symptoms. Read about the ‘worrying’ signs here

World Health Organisation (WHO) has warned that even as COVID cases and fatalities related to the infection continue to decline, it is still the ‘most dangerous time’. WHO chief said that it is ‘encouraging’ that COVID infection and deaths are declining but, still one person is dying of it every 44 seconds.  Explaining this, WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said, a downward trend can be the most dangerous time, if it opens the door to complacency.  The global decline in reported cases and deaths is continuing.

Virus remaining in some people’s bodies for a long time may be causing longer-term complications, recent research suggests The virus that causes Covid-19 can remain in some people’s bodies for a long time.

Over 144 million people are affected by Long COVID and around 10-20% of people who were infected by the coronavirus, experience post-COVID syndrome. Data shows how agonising the disease and its long terms effects can be. However, a recent study revealed the risk of long COVID in children appears to be lower than what has been reported in adults and the symptoms are quite unique.

The Rams take the field at SoFi Stadium on Friday, August 19, 2022. (Photo by David Crane/MediaNews Group/Los Angeles Daily News via Getty Images) NFL football returns on Thursday, kicking off with the possible Super Bowl preview of Buffalo at Los Angeles.

Long COVID is a complex medical condition that can be hard to diagnose as it has a range of more than 200 symptoms - some of which can resemble other illnesses - from exhaustion and cognitive impairment to pain, fever and heart palpitations, according to the World Health Organization. There is no authoritative data on the frequency of suicides among sufferers.

A United Nations report argues that an unprecedented array of crises, chiefly among them Covid-19, has set human progress back five years and fueled a global wave of uncertainty.

Assam has 2802 active cases, Gujarat has 1353 active cases. Karnataka 4373 active cases while Kerala has 10659 active cases New Delhi: India has logged 6,395 new covid-19 cases and 33 deaths in the last 24 hours, the union health ministry data showed on Thursday. The country’s active caseload is nearly 50,000 while total number of covid cases rose to 4.4 crore with 5,28,090 fatalities so far.

India saw another rise in Covid-19 cases with 6,396 infections reported in the last 24 hours, according to the Union health ministry data updated on Thursday. The rise comes a day after the country reported 5,379 cases. Prior on 6 September, India saw lowest cases in three months which was 4,417.

Today we are reporting 1,653 community cases, 254 current hospitalisations.

The Royal Canadian Mounted Police say the second suspect in the stabbing deaths of 10 people in the province of Saskatchewan has been located and is in police custody. Myles Sanderson is in custody, the fugitive’s brother and fellow suspect, Damien Sanderson, 30, was found dead Monday near the stabbing sites.The final suspect in a stabbing rampage that killed 10 people in and around a Canadian Indigenous reserve died of self-inflicted wounds after his car was run off the road by police Wednesday following a three-day manhunt, officials said.Myles Sanderson, 32, was found near the town of Rosthern in the province of Saskatchewan as officers responded to a report of a stolen vehicle being driven by a man armed with a knife, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police said.Officers rammed Sanderson’s vehicle off the road, said an official who was familiar with the matter, speaking on condition of anonymity because the person was not authorized to talk publicly.The official said the fugitive's injuries were self-inflicted, but he didn’t have further details on when the injuries were inflicted or when he died.Video and photos from the scene showed a white SUV off to the side of the road with police cars all around.

MEMPHIS, Tenn. - The University of Memphis is currently on lockdown after several shots were reported in the area and police said a 19-year-old man was wanted for multiple shootings in the city, Fox 13 reported. On Wednesday afternoon, Memphis police said the suspect a 19-year-old Black man was going around shooting people and recording his actions on Facebook. At least two shootings had been reported in Memphis as of 7 p.m., a deadly shooting at a BP gas station on South Parkway and a woman who was critically injured after being shot on Norris Road near I-240, Fox 13 reports. One Twitter user posted a clip of the suspect's Facebook live which shows him entering a store and shooting at a nearby customer. "So a random guy in Memphis is going around just shooting & killing random people on his Facebook live, happening right now, Memphis stay safe," the Twitter user wrote. WARNING: THE VIDEO IN THIS LINK CONTAINS GRAPHIC FOOTAGE AND MAY BE DISTURBING TO SOME. The man is reportedly driving a blue or silver Infiniti car, police say. Anyone with information on these incidents should call 911 immediately. This story will be updated shortly. 

WHO informed in its pandemic report. WHO's technical lead on Covid-19 Maria Van Kerkhove noted that the virus has still not settled into a seasonal pattern and will require constant surveillance and possible changes in diagnostics, treatments and vaccines.

Eye donation and transplantation which were severely hit due to the Covid-19 pandemic, are now witnessing a spike in the national capital Delhi. According to Dr JS Titiyal, Chief of RP Centre, AIIMS, Delhi said, "COVID really killed the eye donation movement in the country during the first wave". Dr Titiyal said that he had hoped to touch 3,000 transplantations per year, however, due to Covid-19, the target will take another nearly three years to achieve.

The Royal Canadian Mounted Police say the second suspect in the stabbing deaths of 10 people in the province of Saskatchewan has been located and is in police custody. Myles Sanderson is in custody, the fugitive’s brother and fellow suspect, Damien Sanderson, 30, was found dead Monday near the stabbing sites.Canadian police arrested the second suspect Wednesday in the stabbing deaths of 10 people in Saskatchewan after a three-day manhunt that also yielded the body of his brother.Myles Sanderson, 32, was found near the town of Rosthern, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police said.An official familiar with the matter said Sanderson’s vehicle was rammed by police and he surrendered.

Ontario Science Table calls for provincial strategy to manage long COVID “In this year’s influenza season in Australia, case counts were higher than any previous year in the past five years, and while influenza hospitalizations were lower than the worst two influenza seasons in the past five years, they did peak at a level higher than the five-year average,” Dr. Deena Hinshaw wrote.“If we see a similar impact here, what we need to anticipate as being different from any previous year is the combined impact on all our systems of all these viruses circulating at the same time.”Like other jurisdictions, Alberta’s latest influenza season had a late-season start and the numbers of lab-confirmed positive cases were fewer than in the past five years.

Saskatchewan stabbing suspect was not considered a risk by parole board, report shows Nine others died and 17 were injured in the community, and in nearby Weldon. The body of Sanderson’s brother Damien, who was also wanted for one of the killings, was found Monday.Police are still searching for Sanderson, 32, after a reported sighting Tuesday at James Smith Cree Nation turned out to be false.

Among a cohort who never had COVID-19 but tested positive within 1 year after baseline, depression, anxiety, stress, loneliness, and concerns about infection were linked to a 33% to 50% increased risk of self-reported postinfection symptoms lasting at least 4 weeks, as well as functional impairment, finds a study published today in JAMA Psychiatry.

At the global level, COVID-19 cases declined for the fourth week in a row, which the head of the World Health Organization (WHO) said is encouraging, though not a guarantee that the trend will persist in the months ahead.

COVID-19 vaccination clinics will be held at the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) beginning on Thursday.The health unit said it will bring COVID-19 vaccination clinics to TIFF, the Cabbagetown Arts and Crafts Show and other locations across the city this weekend. Global cases of COVID, monkeypox trending down, but WHO warns against complacency According to TPH, COVID-19 vaccination clinics will be held at the following events:TPH said its mobile clinics provide “first, second, third, fourth and pediatric COVID-19 doses to eligible residents aged five and older on a walk-in basis, with no appointment or health card required.”“Pfizer and Moderna will be offered by TPH nurses who will also answer COVID-19 vaccine-related questions,” a news release read.The health unit said all eligible residents are “encouraged to get their third and fourth doses as soon as possible.”“As with vaccinations for other diseases, people are protected best when their COVID-19 vaccinations are up to date,” the release said.

Today JAMA Network Open published a study showing a 1.8% COVID-19 infection rate among in-person attendees at a February 2022 Academic Surgical Congress conference in Florida in which 100% of participants were vaccinated and 92% were boosted.In addition to requiring vaccination, in-person attendees were

Western University requiring staff and students returning to campus to have received a COVID-19 booster shot by the start of October has been pushed back until the new year.The university says the decision comes in response to the approval by Health Canada last week of Moderna’s bivalent COVID-19 vaccine targeting both the original novel coronavirus and the original Omicron variant.Instead of Oct. 1, students, faculty and staff are now required to submit current proof of vaccination to the school by Jan.

Federal authorities allege photos show Richard Michetti inside the Capitol on Jan. 6 (Department of Justice)  PHILADELPHIA - A suburban Philadelphia man charged in the Jan.

iNCOVACC vaccine for emergency use on Tuesday. Maria Van Kerkhove the WHO's technical lead on Covid-19, while welcoming the news said, "We look forward to seeing the data to see how this could be incorporated into the response for Covid-19." Van Kerkhove says it could not yet be predicted that the SARS-CoV-2 virus behind Covid-19 disease would settle down into a seasonal pattern.

Covid-19 may increase the chance of developing persistent “long-haul" symptoms. Notably, preinfection psychological distress was associated with a higher risk of post-Covid conditions, researchers at the Harvard T.H.

James Smith Cree Nation and Weldon, Sask., on Sunday, making it one of Canada’s worst-ever mass killings. Nineteen people, including the second of the two suspects, were injured.“Our hearts continue to go out to all the families and loved ones impacted by this immense tragedy,” read the press release from the Saskatchewan Coroner’s Service and Saskatchewan RCMP.Here are the names of the deceased.No photograph was available.The coroner’s office said the identities of those injured will not be released, but confirmed that “one young teen” was injured.

The Bank of Canada is expected to announce it will be raising its key interest rate Wednesday, making it the fifth consecutive increase this year.

LEXINGTON, Ky. - Guy Morriss, a 15-year NFL offensive lineman who played in Super Bowls with Philadelphia and New England before coaching collegiately at Baylor and Kentucky, has died. He was 71.Kentucky announced that Morriss died Monday in Danville, Kentucky.