June 1: Nepali guide Gelje Sherpa found a Malaysian climber shivering and clutching a rope in the area of Mount Everest called the "death zone", where temperatures can dip to -30C.
He carried the climber down from 8,500m above sea level over the course of six hours.
A study finds that blood tests taken on the day of a traumatic brain injury can predict which patients are likely to die or survive with severe disability
A study finds that blood tests taken on the day of a traumatic brain injury can predict which patients are likely to die or survive with severe disability
NEW DELHI: India Wednesday confirmed the death of a man in Rajasthan as the first casualty due to the Omicron variant of coronavirus.
The samples of the 72-year-old man from Rajasthan's Udaipur showed the presence of the Omicron strain, joint secretary at Union health ministry Lav Agarwal said during a press conference in New Delhi.
"The government confirmed the death in Rajasthan has been counted as Omicron death in India. We can say this is the first death in India," Agarwal said.
As per government sources, the patient was diabetic for the past 17 years and it aggravated his situation. It was after his death that they found he was actually Omicron positive.
The man died in a Udaipur hospital on December 31.
Meanwhile, India’s Omicron tally on Wednesday rose to 2,135 cases.
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The vaccines work well for Delta in a way to prevent severe illness and death, but "what they can't do anymore is prevent transmission," U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky said.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 6 :Fully vaccinated people can still transmit the COVID-19 virus, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky said Thursday.
"Our vaccines are working exceptionally well," Walensky told CNN's Wolf Blitzer.
The vaccines work well for Delta in a way to prevent severe illness and death, but "what they can't do anymore is prevent transmission," Walensky said, stressing the need for even vaccinated people to wear masks indoors again.
The Delta variant accounts for an estimated 93.4 percent of all new COVID-19 cases in the United States during the last two weeks of July, according to figures published by the CDC on Wednesday.
A study released last week by the agency showed the Delta variant produced similar amounts of virus in vaccinated and unvaccinated people if they got infected, suggesting that vaccinated groups who get a breakthrough infection could have a similar tendency to spread the virus as the unvaccinated.
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