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16 lovers of beautiful photos died at the same time in India

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During a thunderstorm, 27 lovers of spectacular photographs immediately climbed into the tower of the Amber Citadel, built in the 16th century near the Indian city of Jaipur. And a lightning strike in the tower killed at least 11 people. Prime Minister of India Tweeted about 16 dead.

According to local media reports, the vast majority of those killed were young people. The condition of those who survived the lightning strike while on the tower is still unknown.

Scientists estimate that over the past few decades, the number of Indians killed by lightning strikes has doubled to about two thousand last year. On July 12 alone, celestial electricity caused the death of about 60 people in India: in addition to the massive tragedy in the Amber Fortress, more than 40 people became victims of the disaster in the state of Uttar Pradesh in the north of the country. Most often, women and children living in rural areas were hit by lightning strikes.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on his Twitter page wrote, which is deeply saddened by the reports of the death of people from lightning and promised that the government will provide all possible assistance to the victims and the families of the victims.

Commenting on the post of the prime minister, social network users suggested disseminating information through the state channels of India about the need to turn off mobile phones during a thunderstorm, which, as it is believed, can provoke a lightning strike in a person.

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They took selfies and were “split” by lightning: 11 dead | Chronicle

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The total number of people who died when struck by lightning in the last 24 hours is 38, but it was known that 11 of them lost their lives while taking a selfie. It all happened in the India. The country is in a season of strong thunderstorms, which began in June and will end in September.

According to local media, 11 people died this Sunday when they were struck by lightning while taking a selfie near the palace complex. Fort Amber, in the vicinity of the Indian city of Jaipur.

The thunderstorm wreaked havoc in the states of Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh in the last 24 hours. The 11 who died from a selfie were near the watchtower in the Fort Amber, a construction of the twelfth century.

While in the most populous state of the India, Uttar Pradesh, 42 people died in various districts, according to the AFP agency.

“It started to rain when people were already in the fort. They took refuge in the towers when the rain intensified,” explained the head of the police Jaipur, Saurabh Tiwari.

“Some wounded were unconscious, others fled”, he pointed Tiwari. After what happened, the governments of both states announced that there will be financial compensation for the families of the deceased and injured.

The India It is in the monsoon season where electric shocks are common. The Meterology Department alerted the population to the presence of lightning in the coming days.

The Indian Prime Minister, Narendra Modi, sent his condolences to the families this Monday: “Many people have lost their lives due to lightning in some areas of Rajasthan. Deeply saddened by the disappearance of people. I express my deepest condolences to the families of the dead.” local media pointed out.

According to official information, more than 2,900 people were killed by lightning strikes during the monsoon season in 2019.

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Scientists Alarmed: New Coronavirus Variants Outpace Vaccinations

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The head of the World Health Organization has warned that wealthy countries are too slow in sharing vaccines with low-income countries to prevent the spread of the “delta variant” of COVID, risking millions of lives.

According to The Guardian, WHO Director-General Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said vaccine sharing was “just a trickle outstripping options” after it was revealed that the first-discovered Delta variant in India is now present in at least 98 countries.

The WHO Director-General’s warning came when Dame Sarah Gilbert, an Oxford professor who led the Oxford / AstraZeneca vaccine development team, called for caution about vaccination proposals for children in the UK. “We have to balance what we think about vaccinating children in high-income countries with vaccinating the rest of the world because we need to stop transmission of this virus around the world,” she told the Observer. “I am very worried about vaccines for the rest of the world because we need to stop the transmission of the virus and its further development. It can give us a new option that will be really difficult to deal with. ”

Dr. Ghebreyesus said world leaders must ensure that at least 10% of people in all countries are vaccinated by the end of September to protect vulnerable people and healthcare workers.

“Option Delta is dangerous and continues to evolve and change, which requires constant evaluation and careful adjustment of the public health response,” said the director general of WHO. – Delta has been found in at least 98 countries and is spreading rapidly in countries with low and high vaccination coverage. The world must share protective equipment, oxygen, tests, treatments and vaccines in an equitable manner. ” By July next year, 70% of people in every country should be vaccinated, he said: “This is the best way to slow the pandemic, save lives and spur a truly global economic recovery, and prevent further dangerous options from prevailing.”

This point of view was supported by Professor James Naismith, director of the Rosalind Franklin Institute in Oxford: “Delta is going to go through the EU in much the same way as here. Fortunately, they too are vaccinating at a very fast pace and, like the UK, probably just got out of the point of maximum danger, although the summer is going to be tough. But because so few people are vaccinated in developing countries, their point of maximum danger lies ahead. Once Delta is operational, it will overwhelm healthcare systems very quickly if vaccination progress does not improve. The vast majority of health care systems will experience a disproportionate rise in deaths as oxygen runs out, health workers fail, and other care is cut off. More thought needs to be given to whether vaccination of young children in rich countries is as important and ethically justifiable as vaccinating key workers and the most vulnerable populations in developing countries. ”

According to Professor James Naismith, 3 billion vaccines have been distributed so far, but low-income countries need new manufacturing centers: “I encourage companies such as BioNTech, Pfizer and Moderna to share their know-how so that we can accelerate the development of a new products. The sooner we start to create more vaccination centers and increase the global vaccination capacity, the sooner we can reduce the number of deaths. ”

Last week, the IMF, World Bank and World Trade Organization joined WHO in calling for “urgent action” to increase vaccine supplies. They also asked the G20 group of countries to step up efforts to meet vaccine goals.

Scientists have highlighted the urgency of vaccination around the world because existing vaccines are already less effective against the Delta variant than other coronavirus variants, and Delta is significantly more transmitted.

David Bauer, team leader at the Francis Crick Institute’s RNA Virus Replication Laboratory, says: “From a virological perspective, it’s very clear: The Delta variant will supersede all other variants that exist today. It took him about eight weeks to supplant the Alpha in the United Kingdom and is now well on its way to supplanting the Beta in South Africa, and you see similar exponential trends in the United States. We need to vaccinate everyone as quickly as possible and then identify the groups that need revaccination the most … We need everyone to get vaccinated now. We are not all protected until the whole world is protected. This may sound idealistic, but it is not: there is a heartless and selfish motive behind it all. “

US President Joe Biden warned that while COVID-19 is receding in America, the latest variant of the coronavirus is of particular concern to those who have not yet been vaccinated – while the president’s goals for 70% of US adults to receive at least one vaccination for the 4th of July, did not work out.

Over the past week, the number of new coronavirus cases in the United States has jumped 10% due to the spread of the highly contagious variant of Delta, especially where vaccination rates are low.

“I am concerned that people who have not been vaccinated have the potential to catch this variant and pass it on to other people who have not been vaccinated,” Biden said Friday. “I don’t care if there’s going to be a major outbreak … another epidemic across the country. But I am concerned that lives will be lost. “

The vast majority of Americans dying from COVID-19 are not vaccinated, according to public health officials. And the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Rochelle Walensky, says areas with low vaccination rates are becoming hotbeds of new infections even as the situation in the country as a whole improves.

Nearly 25% of new infections in the US were associated with the “hyper-transmitted” variant of Delta, first identified in India, up from 6% in June.

As of July 1, 66.8% of US adults have received at least one dose of the vaccine. In total, 54.6% of all Americans received one or more shots.

The Delta option is causing great concern in Iran as well. Islamic Republic President Hassan Rouhani has expressed concerns that the country will face a new wave of COVID-19 due to the Delta variant outbreak. “There are concerns that we are on track for a fifth wave across the country,” Rouhani said at a meeting of the Iranian anti-virus working group, warning the public to be wary of the Delta variant infiltrating Iran.

COVID-19 has claimed the lives of more than 84,000 people out of more than 3.2 million infections in Iran, according to official figures, which, according to authorities, do not include all cases.

The Iranian Ministry of Health has classified the capital Tehran and nine other cities in Tehran province as “red” – the highest category on the Iranian coronavirus risk scale. The southern and southeastern provinces of Fars, Hormozgan, Kerman and Sistan-Baluchistan are now also classified as “red”. In the “red zones” all shops must remain closed, except for those deemed necessary, including grocery stores and pharmacies.

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“Perfect Storm”: More Coronavirus Patients Suffer From Fungal Infections

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Covid is creating a “perfect storm” as more and more patients suffer from fungal infections. Scientists warn that weakened lungs and immune systems make people more vulnerable.

In June, specialists were alarmed by a series of cases of a rare infection “black fungus”, which affected thousands of critically ill patients with coronavirus in India. Scientists are now warning that other dangerous or even deadly fungal infections have spawned in critically ill coronavirus patients around the world.

According to The Guardian, fungi are ubiquitous – in soil, water, air, feces and human skin. Usually, the complex adaptive immune systems of humans are quite effective against this scourge, but when the defenses are weakened by disease, congenital diseases or age, people become much more vulnerable to microscopic aggressors.

When COVID-19 emerged, doctors found that steroids, which turned out to be immunosuppressants, were the best tools in their arsenal to fight the virus. For fear of secondary bacterial infections in intensive care units, doctors often prescribe broad-spectrum antibiotics to coronavirus patients as a precautionary measure.

But the combination of COVID-affected lungs, a weakened immune system, and antibiotic-killed good and bad bacteria have left critically ill patients exposed to mold and spores.

“This is unfortunately the perfect storm for these organisms, and we are seeing it,” says Dr. Tom Chiller, head of the mycotic disease division at the American Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

Even before the pandemic, the incidence of the rare and fatal black fungus infection in India was estimated to be about 70 times higher than in the rest of the world. With the advent of COVID, a new epidemic has begun, driven in part by the overuse of steroids in hospitals and the high proportion of susceptible patients with uncontrolled diabetes.

Scientists are now reporting other fungal infections caused by pathogens, including aspergillosis, in hospitalized coronavirus patients. In particular, the common fungal infection, aspergillosis, often seen in association with influenza, has been observed in critically ill coronavirus patients around the world, from the United States to the United Kingdom, France, Pakistan and India.

A recent meta-review of 19 observational studies of hospitalized COVID patients from different countries found that the overall incidence of COVID-associated pulmonary aspergillosis was 13.5% from 1,421 patients, with a range of 2.5% to 35%. Despite widespread use of antifungal agents, nearly half of those infected have died.

“Basically, the more lung damage caused by a virus, the more likely you are to contract a fungal infection,” says Dr. Darius Armstrong-James, Clinical Senior Lecturer in Respiratory Fungal Diseases at Imperial College London. – The problem with fungal infections is that they are much more deadly than bacterial ones. They are difficult to treat, difficult to diagnose and cause much higher mortality. ”

Dr. Armstrong-James, who also heads the Department of Fungal Diseases at Royal Brompton Hospital, based on his own clinician work, estimates that approximately 10% to 15% of critically ill COVID patients have contracted aspergillosis in UK hospitals.

According to David Denning, professor of infectious diseases and global health at the University of Manchester, diagnosing aspergillosis in cases of COVID-19 is difficult because the process involves taking fluid samples from the lungs, which is common in Europe and North America but not elsewhere. : “Some people do not want to collect this liquid because there is a risk that [вирус, вызывающий] Covid … will enter the air in the ICU and infect the people performing the procedure. There is a reluctance to make a diagnosis ”.

“Mucormycosis is very noticeable … Patients look terrible, they have these black areas on their face, they lose their eyes … They need a major operation, it looks terrible,” says the professor. – A patient with aspergillosis just got sick on a ventilator and already had a serious lung disease caused by COVID. And if they die later, it’s all related to the coronavirus. ”

Given these barriers, underestimating the incidence of aspergillosis is “extremely likely,” the expert added. He said the trend for these infections in hospitalized COVID patients was severe enough to warrant the prophylactic use of antifungal drugs, as doctors do with antibiotics. Studies to assess the feasibility of this approach are ongoing.

According to Dr. Tom Chiller, roughly half of those infected with mucormycosis tend to die – and aspergillosis can be just as fatal, especially in intensive care patients with coronavirus. “It’s important to think about the fungus,” he said. “If you don’t think about him, you don’t diagnose him, you don’t cure him, you don’t save lives.”

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The worst photos of the pandemic: corpses emerge from the holy Ganges river, in India

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India is one of the countries hardest hit by the coronavirus. And the situation has worsened since the Delta variant was first identified. Although the situation slowly improves, the memory of the black weeks, with collapsed hospitals and crematoriums, looms over the holy Ganges River.

The arrival of the monsoon and the torrential rains are making the bodies of dozens of Covid victims emerge, whose families, due to lack of space or resources, handed them over to the sacred river or buried them on its sandy shores.

“It was very sad to see these poor people bury their loved ones in such an unworthy way and the rising waters only make the situation worse,” said Sonu Chandel, a boatman who works in a crematorium on the banks of the Ganges.

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symptoms, what causes it, how it’s treated and why it can damage the lungs more

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Dall’India it was considered “a variant of interest”. It is the delta plus, a mutation of the Delta variant, that once called Indian. Thus the Covid does not stop changing from what was discovered in China at the end of 2019. And the variants become more and more predominant. If before it was the English one, now called “alpha”, to be the most widespread in most of Europe, now it is the delta that spreads quickly. And therefore there is growing concern that it may become the new enemy to fight against.

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Delta plus variant, when it was identified

The Delta Plus was first spotted in India in April. While it was reported in a bulletin of Public Health England, the British government agency, on 11 June. It is a subtype of the Delta variant, which has acquired a mutation – called K417N – of the coronavirus spike protein present in the beta variant.


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Where is it

Public Health England, the British government agency, found 40 cases of the new Covid sequence. But cases of positives to the new variant have not only been found in England alone. Even in the United States 83 positives were reported for the delta plus variant last Friday. But there are also in Canada, India, Japan, Nepal, Poland, Portugal, Russia, Switzerland and Turkey.

Symptoms, what causes

Increased transmissibility, easier binding to lung cells and potential reduction in monoclonal antibody response, which could reduce the effectiveness of a life-saving monoclonal antibody therapy administered to some hospitalized Covid patients. These are the three aspects that worry most about the plus variant. Although as regards the monoclonals it must be noted that it is an experimental treatment and few people have been found to be suitable.

How to cure

There are three drugs approved and used to date to treat Covid. Remdesivir, dexamethasone (with a favorable opinion from the European Medicines Agency) and enoxaparin. It is therefore these that can also be used against the Delta plus variant, at least for symptomatic cases. As for monoclonal antibody therapy, as noted earlier it may not work with this coronavirus mutation.

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