NEW DELHI: Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan called on people on Saturday not to be misled by “rumors” and misinformation campaigns about the safety and efficacy of the coronavirus vaccine, stressing that no protocol will be compromised while it is approved. Vardhan, who visited two mock vaccination sites in Delhi …
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VG Somani, Comptroller General of Drugs of India (DCGI), in a webinar on Thursday indicated that India was close to approving a COVID-19 vaccine. Mr. Somani was participating in a webinar, organized by the Department of Biotechnology, in which vaccine experts, infectious disease experts and representatives of companies developing vaccines …
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NEW DELHI: The Health Ministry said Thursday that it had secured the delivery of 36,433 ventilators to the country’s government hospitals and that the average cost now ranges from Rs 2 to 10 lakhs as the national industry began manufacturing the equipment. The ministry stressed that all public health facilities …
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India registered five new cases of mutated coronavirus disease on Thursday, bringing the total case count to 25, the Health Ministry said. Of the five new cases, four have been tracked by the National Institute of Virology in Pune and the CSIR Institute for Genomics and Integrative Biology in Delhi. …
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NEW DELHI: The new UK variant of the SARS-CoV-2 virus, which is 70% more transmissible, has been detected in India with at least seven returnees from the country, including a 2-year-old girl, who tested positive for the mutant variant, the government said Tuesday even as it assured the vaccines under …
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Coronavirus: India reported 16,432 new cases of Covid-19 with 252 deaths in the last 24 hours. (Archive) New Delhi: COVID-19 has affected men more than women in India, where 70 percent of the roughly 1.47 lakhs of people who died since the national outbreak in January were men. The data …
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The National Task Force (NTF), formed by the government to organize and facilitate Covid-19 containment efforts in India, has said that there is no need to change the existing treatment protocol in view of the mutations arising in the UK. An NTF meeting was held on Saturday where evidence-based modifications …
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NEW DELHI: To closely monitor the potentially more infectious new strain of coronavirus, the Health Ministry has asked state governments to send samples from passengers who tested positive upon arrival from the UK to the National Institute of Virology ( NIV). ), Pune or any other laboratory designated for the …
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Six passengers traveling on Air India’s London-Delhi flight tested positive for COVID-19 upon arrival, a senior government official said on December 22. Read also: Coronavirus, December 22 updates The flight landed around 11.30pm on December 21. “Five COVID-positive passengers were found at the Delhi airport. A passenger, who took a …
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The Union Health Ministry on Tuesday issued a set of standard operating procedures (SOPs) for passengers arriving from the United Kingdom (United Kingdom) amid the detection of a new variant of the novel coronavirus disease (Covid- 19) there. On Monday, the Center had announced a temporary ban on flights from …
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