Most mucormycosis cases in Maharashtra
The Hindu
28,252 cases reported across India, says Health Minister Harsh Vardhan
India has so far reported 28,252 cases of mucormycosis, Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan on Monday while chairing the 28th meeting of the Group of Ministers on COVID-19. “Of these cases reported from 28 States 86% (24,370 cases) have a history of COVID-19 infection and 62.3% (17,601) have a history of diabetes. Maharashtra has reported the maximum number of mucormycosis cases (6,339) followed by Gujarat (5,486),” he said. Dr Harsh Vardhan added that as of Monday over 1.4 crore COVID vaccine doses are still available with the States.![](/newspic/picid-1269750-20250217064624.jpg)
When fed into Latin, pusilla comes out denoting “very small”. The Baillon’s crake can be missed in the field, when it is at a distance, as the magnification of the human eye is woefully short of what it takes to pick up this tiny creature. The other factor is the Baillon’s crake’s predisposition to present less of itself: it moves about furtively and slides into the reeds at the slightest suspicion of being noticed. But if you are keen on observing the Baillon’s crake or the ruddy breasted crake in the field, in Chennai, this would be the best time to put in efforts towards that end. These birds live amidst reeds, the bulrushes, which are likely to lose their density now as they would shrivel and go brown, leaving wide gaps, thereby reducing the cover for these tiddly birds to stay inscrutable.