WASHINGTON – With the memory of the pandemic's toll in nursing homes still raw, the COVID-19 relief bill is offering states a generous funding boost for home- and community-based care as an alternative to institutionalizing disabled people.

Advocates hope the estimated $12.7 billion will accelerate what has been a steady shift to supporting elderly and disabled people and their overwhelmed families in everyday settings.

But the money for state Medicaid programs, long in coming, will only be available over four calendar quarters this year and next.

That's raising concerns it will have just fleeting impact, and prompting calls for permanent legislation. “What we really want is that when our loved ones need support, we are going to be able

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Coronavirus update: India reports over 81,000 new cases, highest in six months

Covid-19 in the last 24 hours, taking the cumulative caseload in the country to 1,23,03,131, said the Union health ministry on Friday.This is the biggest jump in daily new infections the country has reported in the last six months. Nearly 81,000 cases were reported on 1 October last year.Also Read | Why Kerala may not swing this time roundMaharashtra continues to be the biggest contributor to the daily tally.

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Covid-19: India administers over 36 lakh vaccines in a day, highest so far

Also Read | Why Kerala may not swing this time roundMeanwhile, India reported 81,466 new Covid-19 infections overnight, data from the health ministry showed today, the highest since 2 October 2020. The country reported 469 more deaths, taking the total to 163,396.Coronavirus vaccinations will be done throughout the month till 30 April, including on gazetted holidays, at all public and private Covid inoculation centres, the Union Health Ministry has said.

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Mumbai: BMC's guideline for home-quarantined covid patients in 10 points

Home-quarantine rulesAsymptomatic patients, mild symptomatic patients with no co-morbidities and less than 100 F fever and oxygen saturation above 95 as well as elderly and patients with co- morbidities but no symptoms are to be home-quarantined.Such patients should have the facility for self- isolation and also for quarantining family contacts.Well-ventilated roomThere should be a separate well-ventilated room with a separate toilet for the patient in home isolation, the guidelines said.A patient under home isolation will stand "discharged" after 10 days of symptom onset (or date of sampling, for asymptomatic cases).

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India puts covid vaccine shipment to Canada on hold

TORONTO : Shipments of the coronavirus vaccine from the Serum Institute to Canada have been put on hold for an indefinite period as India has temporarily stopped vaccine exports so as to cater to domestic needs.According to Sputnik, New Delhi is concentrating on immunization at home due to a spike in domestic cases."We are working with the company on determining when the doses will arrive. We are expecting a delay in the shipment," Joelle Paquette, Director General, of Procurement Support Services Sector, told reporters on Thursday.

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Duty sergeant: Officers could have ended Floyd restraint

MINNEAPOLIS – A Minneapolis police supervisory sergeant who was on duty the night George Floyd died testified that he believes the officers who restrained Floyd could have ended it after he stopped resisting.

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US may not need Oxford covid vaccine, says Anthony Fauci

CHICAGO : The United States may not need Oxford-AstraZeneca's COVID-19 vaccine, even if it wins U.S.

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Study finds new risk factors linked to increased risk of Covid-19 infection

Covid-19 runs rampant across the world, a team of researchers have found associations between certain lifestyle factors and a person's risk of getting infected.While it has already been established that those with Type II diabetes and a high body mass index (BMI) are at greater risk of experiencing hospitalisations and other severe complications related to Covid-19, they are also at greater risk of getting the symptomatic infection in the first place.Also Read | Why Kerala may not swing this time roundThis is the finding of a recent study conducted by researchers at the University of Maryland School of Medicine that was published today in the journal PLoS ONE.Using data from the UK Biobank of 500,000 British volunteers over age 40, the

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United States	Cases: 46 252 513 Deaths: 750 423 Recovered: 0
India	Cases: 34 321 025 Deaths: 459 652 Recovered: 0
Brazil	Cases: 21 835 785 Deaths: 608 235 Recovered: 0
United Kingdom	Cases: 9 215 683 Deaths: 141 607 Recovered: 0
Russia	Cases: 8 494 589 Deaths: 237 619 Recovered: 0

Alternatives to nursing homes get $12B boost in COVID bill

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