Covid cases in India: As the country continues to witness a decline in the number of coronavirus cases over the past few days, India recorded 552 new infections while active cases dropped from 7,104 to 6,591. The death toll has risen to 5,31,849 with six deaths, including three deaths by Kerala, according to Union health ministry data.
The number of Kovid cases has been recorded at 4.49 crore (4,49,87,891). The ministry said that active cases now comprise 0.01 per cent of the total infections and the national Covid-19 recovery rate has been recorded at 98.80 per cent.
Case fatality rate recorded at 1.18%
The number of people who recovered from the disease increased to 4,44,49,451 and the death rate was recorded at 1.18 percent. According to the website of the ministry, 220.66 crore doses of Kovid vaccine have been given so far in the country under the nationwide vaccination campaign.
Type 1 diabetes on the rise during COVID-19 pandemic: study
Meanwhile, several studies have found an increase in type 1 diabetes during the COVID-19 pandemic. However, no research differentiates between children infected with SARS-CoV-2 and those not.
Researchers can now gain new insight as the KVB data set contains information on whether children with type 1 diabetes have previously had COVID-19. This enables the tentative link between a COVID-19 diagnostic and type 1 diabetes diagnosis to be examined.
Among children who were not diagnosed with type 1 diabetes before the start of the pandemic, 16.6 per cent were diagnosed with Covid-19 between January 2020 and December 2021.
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What did the study claim?
The researchers’ preliminary findings were consistent with data from Germany and other countries: The incidence rate of type 1 diabetes among children aged 2 to 12 was almost 50 percent higher in the years 2020 to 2021, compared to its incidence rate from 2018. 2019.
“We are cautious in our interpretation, but the findings suggest that the virus may either promote the onset of autoimmunity underlying type 1 diabetes or accelerate disease progression in children with existing autoimmunity,” says Ezio Bonifacio, One author study. The new data also point to a direct effect of SARS-CoV-2 infection on the development of type 1 diabetes.
(with inputs from agencies)