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File photo of a healthcare worker taking a patient’s temperature at a makeshift COVID-19 care facility. (AP) However, mortality will be much lower as our healthcare system is now prepared for the fight, added Dr. VK Paul, member (health) and head of the Covid-19 national task force. News18.com Last update: …

NEW DELHI: India is expected to have the Covid-19 vaccine early next year, and possibly from more than one source, Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan said Tuesday. He hoped to be able to provide doses of 40 to 50 crore to 20-25 crore of people in the country by next …

After a sudden spike in September, the Covid-19 positivity rate in Assam has declined this month, prompting Health Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma to say that the pandemic curve is flattening out in the state. “In September, the positivity rate reached 8% of the total samples analyzed. But since last week, …

Britain is moving closer to conducting studies that would intentionally infect healthy people with the virus to aid researchers in their search for Covid-19 vaccines, and thousands of volunteers like Greer, a chemistry student at Durham University in the Northeast England, they’re ready to go. . Open Orphan Plc, parent …

How long can I expect a COVID-19 illness to last? It depends. Most coronavirus patients have mild to moderate illness and recover quickly. Older and sick patients tend to take longer to recover. That includes those who are obese or have high blood pressure and other chronic diseases. The World …

Paul Milgrom and Robert Wilson. (Twitter / Nobel Prize). The first Nobel Prize was awarded one year after its creation in 1968. It was awarded to the Dutch economist Jan Tinbergen and the Norwegian Ragner Frisch in 1969 “for having developed and applied dynamic models for the analysis of economic …

NEW DELHI: India’s Aarogya Setu mobile app has been praised by the World Health Organization (WHO) for helping health departments identify Covid-19 clusters. “India’s Aarogya Setu app has been downloaded by 150 million users and has helped city public health departments identify areas where groups can be anticipated and specifically …

By: Express Web Desk | New Delhi | Updated: October 13, 2020 5:12:42 pm Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, director general of the World Health Organization, said the WHO is focused exclusively on saving lives during the pandemic. (Salvatore Di Nolfi / Keystone via AP, file) World Health Organization Director General Tedros …

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) projected on Tuesday that India’s gross domestic product (GDP) would plunge in fiscal year 21 by 10.3%, revised down from its June forecast of a 4.5 drop. %, which reflects a severe contraction of what was anticipated in economic activities in the first year. quarter …

The Union Health Ministry said on Tuesday that the positivity rate for coronavirus disease (Covid-19) in India is on a “steady downward trend” and that the country’s cumulative positivity rate is 8 .7%, the weekly rate at 6.24% and the daily rate at 5.16%. The Health Ministry also said that …