NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi said Tuesday that the lockdown may have ended, but the coronavirus still exists, urging people not to lower their guard until the country receives a vaccine. In his seventh address to the nation following the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic, Prime Minister Modi said: …
Read More »ICMR is considering removing plasma therapy from its Covid treatment guidelines: Official
New Delhi: Discussions are ongoing in the national working group on Covid-19 for the removal of plasma therapy from national treatment guidelines, Indian Council for Medical Research (ICMR) director general Dr. Balram said Tuesday. Bhargava. Convalescent plasma therapy is currently included as an investigational therapy. ICMR clinical trials have shown …
Read More »Prime Minister promises covid vaccine for all Indians
The government will ensure that the COVID-19 vaccine, whenever available, reaches each and every Indian as soon as possible, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Tuesday. Modi said in a televised address to the nation that while people are working on a war footing around the world to save humanity …
Read More »Many thorny world situations hinge on the outcome of the US elections
LONDON: Four years after the election of Donald Trump reshaped how many nations interacted with the United States, the way the world’s most important superpower advances after its presidential election can affect many geopolitical pressure points, whether the victor is Trump or his Democrat. challenger, former Vice President Joe Biden. …
Read More »AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine trial volunteer dies, says Brazil
Brazil has the second deadliest outbreak of coronavirus. (Figurative) Brazilian health authority Anvisa said on Wednesday that a volunteer in a clinical trial of the COVID-19 vaccine developed by AstraZeneca and the University of Oxford died, claiming it had received data from an investigation into the matter. The regulator said …
Read More »Coronavirus | ICMR approves the low-cost test method developed by IIT Kharagpur
The machine costs less than Rs 5,000 and the test kits would each cost around Rs 500, the IIT-Kharagpur researchers said. A new coronavirus diagnostic method, using a low-cost portable unit developed by researchers at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kharagpur, has been approved by the Indian Council for …
Read More »‘Active Covid-19 cases below 7.5 lakh, 14 states have mortality rate below 1%’: Ministry of Health
As the daily increase in the number of coronavirus illnesses (Covid-19) continues to fall in India, the Union Health Ministry said on Wednesday that active cases were resolved below the 7.5 lakh mark per second day. consecutive. There are 7,40,090 active cases of Covid-19 in the country, representing 9.67 percent …
Read More »Calcutta HC partially facilitates the ‘no entry’ order in Durga Puja Pandals but rejects the request for review
People wearing PPE disinfect a pandal in front of Durga Puja in Kolkata. (Reuters) The Calcutta High Court has allowed 60 organizers to gather within large pandalos and only 45 can be present at any one time. For small pandals, he said 30 organizers are allowed in, and no more …
Read More »Why the storage and distribution of Covid-19 vaccines will be the next challenge
Written by Abhishek De, edited by Explained Desk | New Delhi | Updated: October 21, 2020 2:10:25 pm A health worker takes a swab sample for Covid-19 testing in New Delhi (Express photo by Praveen Khanna) We can have a Covid-19 vaccine for this year itself, with some eight candidates …
Read More »Active covid cases in India decline further as recovery rate increases
Coronavirus cases in India increased by 54,044 new infections in the past 24 hours, bringing the total covid count to 7.6 million, the Health Ministry reported. India recorded 717 new deaths, the death toll increased to 1,15,914. India’s total active cases is 7,40,090 after a decrease of 8,448 in the …
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