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India was one of the first countries to adopt a “flexible” lockdown approach and thus managed to keep death rates from COVID-19 relatively low, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said at the launch of the Annual Meeting of Large Challenges, organized by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. The three-day program …

The head of the National Group of Experts on Vaccine Administration for COVID-19 emphasized the appropriate behavior of COVID-19 during the festival season and winter months. The number of new coronavirus cases and deaths has declined in the past three weeks as the spread of the pandemic has leveled off …

Modi also warned against any complacency in the face of the decline and called for continued efforts to contain the pandemic. Prime Minister Narendra Modi has said that every step in the logistics, delivery and administration of the COVID-19 vaccine must be rigorously implemented and must include advanced planning of …

NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday called for expanded Covid-19 testing and sero surveys, saying that the facility to get tested regularly and quickly at low cost should be available to everyone as soon as possible. The Prime Minister also reiterated the country’s determination to provide cost-effective, readily …

Harsh Vardhan said that “the authorization of emergency use for the COVID-19 vaccine will depend on data from clinical trials.” Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan said on Sunday that his ministry will soon launch the FELUDA paper strip test for the diagnosis of SARS-CoV-2. This has been developed by CSIR-IGIB …

Up to 18 states and Union Territories have recorded recovery rates above the national average, the ministry said. Active COVID-19 cases in India stayed below the nine lakh mark for the second day in a row and now constitute only 12.65 percent of the total number of cases, the Union …

New Delhi: Reliance Life Sciences has developed an RT-PCR kit that promises the diagnosis of COVID-19 infection in about 2 hours, company sources said. Currently, the COVID-19 RT-PCR test, which is a real-time reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction (rRT-PCR) test for the qualitative detection of SARS-CoV-2 nucleic acid, takes up …

NEW DELHI: India reported close to 2 million Covid-19 cases in August, the highest recorded in any country for any month since the outbreak of the pandemic. The country also saw an increase in deaths from the virus, with 28,859 deaths reported in August, a 50% increase from the previous …

[ad_1] Representative image NEW DELHI: Dispelling apprehensions that are light and moderate COVID-19 patients could transmit the disease if not screened before discharge, the Union Ministry of Health Such available evidence does not indicate any increase in the risk of infection transmission in such cases. Such patients after discharge will …