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Written by Anuradha Mascarenhas | Pune | Updated: October 17, 2020 7:13:22 am Dr. Soumya Swaminathan, chief scientist at the World Health Organization, said that a Covid-19 vaccine should be ready by the second quarter of next year. (Representative image) India can receive a Covid-19 vaccine by March 2021, provided …

A 70-year-old man, born in Punjab and living in Ireland for more than 40 years, has claimed a Guinness World Record after completing what he calls his Earth Walk, which covers more than 40,075 kilometers or the equivalent of the circumference of the Land in less than 1,500 days, without …

US pharmaceutical giant Pfizer, which is developing a possible coronavirus vaccine with BioNTech, has said it could have the vaccine in November. Pfizer Inc has announced that it could apply for US authorization for the vaccine in November. Meanwhile, the Russian vaccine against the coronavirus (Sputnik V) that suffered a …

Coronavirus Cases in India: Daily cases have fallen from a high of almost 100,000 in mid-September. New Delhi: India has climbed an “unprecedented” peak as active coronavirus cases fell below the 8 lakh mark for the first time in 1.5 months, the Health Ministry said this morning as the country’s …

By Andy Mukherjee India’s Covid-19 economic pessimism turned to despair this week, on news that its per capita gross domestic product may be lower by 2020 than in neighboring Bangladesh. “Any emerging economy that does well is good news,” Kaushik Basu, former chief economist of the World Bank, tweeted after …

“Any emerging economy that performs well is good news,” Kaushik Basu, a former World Bank chief economist, tweeted after the International Monetary Fund updated its World Economic Outlook. “But it is surprising that India, which had a 25% lead five years ago, is now behind.” Ever since it began opening …

NEW DELHI: As the world prepares for a Covid-19 vaccine, India has begun to identify around 30 million priority beneficiaries, including the high-risk population and first responders, from healthcare workers to police. , sanitation workers, as well as the elderly and people with comorbidities, who will likely receive an estimated …

New Delhi: India is now ranked 94th out of 107 countries in terms of hunger, and remains in the category of ‘severe’ hunger according to the Global Hunger Index 2020. According to the study, 14% of India’s population is undernourished. Last year, the GHI ranking of India was 102 out …

Written by Prabha Raghavan, Anuradha Mascarenhas | New Delhi, Pune | Updated: October 17, 2020 7:47:18 am Among the trial treatments, remdesivir is the most sought after. (AP Photo) The World Health Organization (WHO) released the interim results of the Solidarity Therapeutics Trial, a large-scale global trial studying the effectiveness …

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday wished the people on the first day of the nine-day Navratri festival, hoping for a safe, healthy and prosperous planet as the country and the world fight the coronavirus disease (Covid-19 ), which has affected and killed millions around the world. “Many congratulations on …