The Union government will consider a plan to allow companies, especially large ones in strategically important businesses, to strike direct agreements with Covid-19 vaccine developers to secure doses for their employees, officials familiar with the matter said, detailing the current thinking in political circles. about the country’s vaccination plan. The …
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By: PTI | London | Updated: October 3, 2020 10:31:51 pm The candidate vaccine tested by scientists at the University of Oxford in collaboration with the pharmaceutical giant AstraZeneca is the most advanced in the testing process and, according to a report by “The Times” There is growing hope that …
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The second round of surveys by the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) covered 5,384 people in three districts: Matunga (North F), Dahisar (North R) and Chembur (West M). (Proceedings) Coronavirus India LIVE updates Deaths per million people are even lower in India, almost half the world average. So far, only about …
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The death toll from the coronavirus disease (Covid-19) in India surpassed the 100,000 mark on Friday, a grim milestone that comes exactly seven months from the day the first batch of cases was reported in the country. India became the third country in the world to cross this milestone: only …
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Coronavirus Cases in India: India Now Has 9,44,996 Active COVID-19 Cases New Delhi: More than a lakh people have died from COVID-19 in India, the second most affected country in the world by the coronavirus pandemic after the United States, as it recorded 1,069 deaths and the total number of …
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In just over 200 days from the day the first coronavirus disease-related death was reported in India, the national death toll surpassed the 100,000 mark on Friday. In this period of time, 717 of the 734 districts of the country have reported at least one death, while the 20 most …
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File photo of PNC chief Sharad Pawar. Pawar’s comments came after he visited the IBS facility to receive a dose of the BCG (Bacillus Calmette-Guerin) vaccine administered to boost immunity. IANS Pune Last update: October 2, 2020 11:37 PM IST FOLLOW US: NCP chief Sharad Pawar said on Friday that …
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Science published a paper Wednesday based on one of the world’s largest contact tracing exercises. The study, covering 85,000 primary cases, was conducted in Andhra Pradesh and Tamil Nadu by a team of researchers led by Ramanan Laxminarayan of the Center for Disease Dynamics, Economics and Policy. The study tracked …
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One-tenth of all patients infected with the coronavirus disease (Covid-19) become “super-spreaders” and account for 60% of new infections, while 70% of infected patients do not transmit the disease to anyone else , shows a study on transmission patterns of Sars-CoV-2 published in the journal Science: it is the first …
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The prevalence of antibodies to the Sars-Cov-2 virus in Delhi fell by more than four percentage points in a month, officials told the Delhi high court citing the recent serosurvey, yielding an epidemiological finding that now skews estimates of how many people may have been exposed to Covid-19 in the …
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