Health

CALCUTTA: BCCI president and former captain of India Sourav Ganguly, who submitted angioplasty after a “slight” myocardial infarction, is stable and its health parameters are normal, doctors he said on Sunday. The cricket icon was diagnosed with three blocked coronary arteries on Saturday, after which a stent was inserted into …

Congressional Senior Leader Shashi Tharoor said on Sunday that emergency approval for the Covid-19 – Covaxin vaccine is premature and could be dangerous as it is still in phase 3 testing. He urged the Union Health Minister Dr. Harsh Vardhan to wait until full trials of the vaccine are completed. …

With Covishield and Covaxin obtaining approval from the Drug Control General of India (DCGI) for emergency restricted use, the vaccination campaign is now just a matter of announcement, as both the Serum Institute of India and Bharat Biotech are prepared to supply the doses. required for phase one vaccine. In …

CHENNAI: A Covid-19 vaccine for vulnerable older people in Tamil Nadu and people with comorbidities could be available in early May if all goes well, public health officials estimate. On Saturday, at the end of the trial for the first stage of vaccination, officials said it would take almost a …

MEXICO CITY: Mexican authorities said they are studying the case of a 32-year-old doctor who was hospitalized after receiving the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine. The doctor, whose name has not been released, was admitted to the intensive care unit of a public hospital in the northern state of Nuevo León after …

The new year has arrived and so have vaccines. The dual dose had instilled a sense of optimism that things will magically change, fans will soon start flocking to stadiums, and there will be a semblance of normal in this new world. But while thousands of athletes around the world …

The World Health Organization (WHO) on Sunday welcomed India’s decision to authorize the emergency use of Covid-19 vaccines. Dr Poonam Khetrapal Singh, Regional Director of the WHO South-East Asia Region, said: “The World Health Organization welcomes India’s decision to authorize the emergency use of Covid-19 vaccines.” “The use of the …

News Reports say India does not want to travel to Brisbane for fear of being put into another harsh quarantine Matthew Wade has stated that Australia is planning for the fourth test to take place in Brisbane as planned. His comments on Sunday followed media reports that the Indian team …

Delhi’s Health Minister Satyendar Jain said on Sunday that frontline and healthcare workers will receive the coronavirus disease (Covid-19) vaccine in the first phase in the national capital, even as the Comptroller General Drug Commission of India gave final approval for the emergency. use of Oxford University-AstraZeneca and Bharat Biotech …

The approval paves the way for the deployment of at least two vaccines in India in the coming days. New Delhi: The World Health Organization welcomed India’s decision to authorize the emergency use of two COVID-19 vaccines on Sunday, saying it will “help intensify and strengthen the fight against the …