Black Fungus India – emergency measures ordered amid covid-19 crisis
Across India, states have ordered emergency measures to counter a rise in the rare deadly “black fungus” infection among Covid-19 sufferers.
TRT World says two new states declared epidemics of Mucormycosis. Meanwhile, New Dehli and other big cities have opened special wards to treats ‘thousands of cases’ of the infection – known commonly as Black Fungus, according to TRT World.
India usually has less than 20 cases a year, but Black Fungus has become a ‘new threat’ from India’s coronavirus wave that has killed 120,000 people in six weeks,
