India's updated Covid guidelines advise caution on antibiotics, steroid use

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In view of the recent rise in Covid cases in India, the Union Health ministry has updated its guidelines...

The new guidelines advise against using antibiotics "unless there is clinical suspicion of bacterial infection"...

Doctors have been asked to examine the possibility of co-infection of Covid with other endemic infections..

Of late, the number of Covid cases has risen considerably in the country..

The number of active cases rose to 18,389, making up 0.04 per cent of the total infections...

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