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  • Seven suspected measles deaths, 164 cases reported in Mumbai since September: Civic body

    By PTI

    MUMBAI: Seven suspected measles deaths and 164 cases of the viral infection have been reported in Mumbai since its outbreak in September, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has said.

    With 184 new cases having symptoms of fever and rashes on the body, the number of suspected measles cases in the city rose to 1,263, and 647 of these cases included children in the age group of 1 to 4 years, the BMC said in a release on Wednesday.

    The number of patients admitted in hospitals due to measles infection rose to 80, it said, adding that 12 new patients were admitted on Wednesday. On Monday, a one-year-old boy died of measles.

    The toddler from the Null Bazar area was undergoing treatment at the BMC-run Kasturba Hospital in Chinchpokli since last week, a civic official said on Tuesday.

    The civic body in its bulletin said though the city witnessed seven suspected deaths due to measles infection, the exact reason behind their death will be confirmed only after a review committee gives its report.

    The latest outbreak of measles is spread across eight civic wards in the city and the highest number of cases are from M-East ward, which includes Govandi and surrounding areas, it said.

    As per the release, the civic body has set up isolation wards for patients with mild and severe symptoms of measles in various hospitals. The highest 83 beds are made available in the Kasturba Hospital, apart from five ventilators.

    Civic officials have appealed to parents to get children in the 9-16 age group vaccinated against the disease. In measles, the child gets fever, cold, cough and red rashes on the body.

    Complications from this disease can be serious in children who are partially vaccinated or unvaccinated, a BMC release earlier said.

    The Union Health Ministry last week said it has deputed a high-level multi-disciplinary team to Mumbai to take stock of the upsurge of measles cases in the city.

    The team will assist the state health authorities in instituting public health measures and facilitate the operationalisation of requisite control and containment measures, it had said.

    MUMBAI: Seven suspected measles deaths and 164 cases of the viral infection have been reported in Mumbai since its outbreak in September, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has said.

    With 184 new cases having symptoms of fever and rashes on the body, the number of suspected measles cases in the city rose to 1,263, and 647 of these cases included children in the age group of 1 to 4 years, the BMC said in a release on Wednesday.

    The number of patients admitted in hospitals due to measles infection rose to 80, it said, adding that 12 new patients were admitted on Wednesday. On Monday, a one-year-old boy died of measles.

    The toddler from the Null Bazar area was undergoing treatment at the BMC-run Kasturba Hospital in Chinchpokli since last week, a civic official said on Tuesday.

    The civic body in its bulletin said though the city witnessed seven suspected deaths due to measles infection, the exact reason behind their death will be confirmed only after a review committee gives its report.

    The latest outbreak of measles is spread across eight civic wards in the city and the highest number of cases are from M-East ward, which includes Govandi and surrounding areas, it said.

    As per the release, the civic body has set up isolation wards for patients with mild and severe symptoms of measles in various hospitals. The highest 83 beds are made available in the Kasturba Hospital, apart from five ventilators.

    Civic officials have appealed to parents to get children in the 9-16 age group vaccinated against the disease. In measles, the child gets fever, cold, cough and red rashes on the body.

    Complications from this disease can be serious in children who are partially vaccinated or unvaccinated, a BMC release earlier said.

    The Union Health Ministry last week said it has deputed a high-level multi-disciplinary team to Mumbai to take stock of the upsurge of measles cases in the city.

    The team will assist the state health authorities in instituting public health measures and facilitate the operationalisation of requisite control and containment measures, it had said.

  • Michelle Williams to play Peggy Lee in biopic ‘Fever’

    By ANI
    WASHINGTON: American actor Michelle Williams is all set to star in the upcoming biopic titled ‘Fever’ based on the life of the late entertainment icon Peggy Lee.

    As per Variety, the forthcoming film is being directed by Todd Haynes and MGM is in talks to back the film. Marc Platt, Reese Witherspoon, and Killer Films’ Pamela Koffler and Christine Vachon are bankrolling the film.

    This will be Williams and Haynes’ third collaboration. The filmmaker previously directed the Oscar winner in the 2007 Bob Dylan biographical film ‘I’m Not There’ and the 2017 mystery drama ‘Wonderstruck’.

    Doug Wright is writing the screenplay for the biopic of the jazz singer and actor, who died at the age of 81 in January 2002. Singer Billie Eilish, her mother Maggie Baird, and Justin Lubliner, CEO of Eilish’s label Darkroom, are also in early discussions about possibly coming aboard the film as executive producers.

    Born Norma Deloris Egstrom in 1920, Peggy Lee is today likely best known for her version of the song ‘Fever’, which became a sensation after she recorded it in 1958. She began singing professionally at the age of 16, and recorded her first number one hit, ‘Somebody Else Is Taking My Place’ at the age of 22.

    Her career, including an Oscar-nominated performance in 1955’s ‘Pete Kelly’s Blues’ and several roles in the 1955 Disney animated feature ‘Lady and the Tramp’, spanned into the 1990s.

    The upcoming biopic has been in development for years. Witherspoon was originally attached to star as Lee, but the project was put on hold after the June 2012 death of Nora Ephron, who wrote a draft of the script.

    It will be Haynes’ second portrait of a pop-culture icon, after his 2007 kaleidoscopic biography of Bob Dylan titled ‘I’m Not There’, Williams played a small role in that film as a character based on Edie Sedgwick.

    Haynes’ 1998 film ‘Velvet Goldmine’ is also loosely based on the careers of David Bowie, Iggy Pop, and Lou Reed. Williams, meanwhile, earned an Oscar nomination for her performance as Marilyn Monroe in 2011’s ‘My Week with Marilyn’.

  • Immediately check the children if they show slight signs of corona infection – UNICEF

    Children also get corona infection even if the percentage is less, compared to adults, but if they become infected, they do not show signs of corona or will have mild fever, phlegm, sore throat but they can be carriers and adults Especially the elderly can be easily infected. Because they have more emotional attachment among themselves. Therefore, treatment of children with less symptoms of corona should not be delayed. UNICEF health expert Dr. Sridhar said that even children younger than 2 years old, underweight newborns, obese children or children who have lung or other disease also get more complicated problem due to corona infection. Therefore it is very important to protect children from infection.
    Dr. Sridhar believes that whenever the children go out or talk to the people outside, they must put on the mask correctly. Children should keep a distance of 1 meter from people other than household members or from sick members. They should also be taught to wash hands thoroughly for 20 seconds. Dr. Sridhar said that at such a time, scheduled vaccinations of children will have to be done on time, not a single vaccine should be missed. Vaccines can prevent fatal diseases like measles, diphtheria, diarrhea, pneumonia, hepatitis.
    The UNICEF official said that children are still living at home during the epidemic, yet they should continue to do physical activities. Children also have stress like elders. When they see how the elders of the house are coping with Kovid-19, they will behave in the same manner.