After a calamitous second wave of COVID-19 in India since April which raised the overall death toll to almost 400,000, thousands who contracted the virus also underwent an infrequent fungal disease called mucormycosis, or “Black Fungus”. The South Asian country which has more than 30.4 million established COVID-19 infections, second only to the United States … Read more
An ENT doctor at the Khyber Teaching Hospital (KTH), Peshawar, has warned that the spread of Black Fungus disease among COVID-19 patients may occur due to the use of substandard and poorly-cleaned oxygen cylinders. The ENT doctor in a letter to the Board of Governors (BoG) of KTH, penned that 12 cases of Sinusitis have … Read more
Indian authorities have ordered social media structures to take down content that refers to the “Indian version” of the coronavirus. The B.1.617 version was first detected in India last year and has been blamed for tons of a devastating Covid-19 wave that has battered South Asian nations in current weeks. It has spread to Britain … Read more
New Delhi has set up special wards at three hospitals to cope with increased black fungus cases. Hospitals in India are flooded with more than 200 black fungus patients in New Delhi hospitals, with dozens on waiting lists for beds, according to media reports. The IT hub of Bangalore opened special wards on Wednesday which … Read more
New Delhi: Doctors at a leading private facility in Delhi are seeing a rise in the number of Covid-activated Mucormycisis cases, according to a statement from the hospital. Mucormycosis is a fungal infection activated by COVID-19. Black fungus or Mucormycisis has been a cause of illness and passing of patients in transplants, ICUs, and immunodeficient … Read more
