The V Citizens Action Network (V-CAN), a public trust whose objective is to establish a linkage between citizens and their government representatives, held a webinar on Thursday on Black Fungus: Understanding the Mystery, with guest speaker Dr Sanjay Agarwal, head, Department of Medicine and Diabetes, Ruby Hall Clinic and senior consultant in Diabetes and Medicine, Jehangir Hospital.

New challenge?

Managing trustee Indrani Malkani said at the outset, “Mucormycosis or black fungus is the new challenge thrown up by Covid-19. It is vital for citizens to understand it. We must know the category of people who are most susceptible and apart from black fungus, we are also hearing about white and yellow fungus. We are pretty bewildered though certain that Dr Agarwal will clear the fog in our minds.”