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NEW DELHI: India’s Aarogya Setu mobile app has been praised by the World Health Organization (WHO) for helping health departments identify Covid-19 clusters. “India’s Aarogya Setu app has been downloaded by 150 million users and has helped city public health departments identify areas where groups can be anticipated and specifically …

India continues to witness a decline in the number of daily cases of the coronavirus disease (Covid-19). On Tuesday, the country registered 55,342 new infections, the lowest in almost two months, according to figures released by the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare. Hours earlier, the ministry said that the …

The World Health Organization (WHO) believes that a vaccine against the coronavirus disease will be ready for registration by the end of 2020 or early next year at the earliest, Soumya Swaminathan, the WHO chief scientist, said on Monday. “As you know, we now have about 40 candidate vaccines at …

The coronavirus disease (Covid-19) roared as the world reopened after spending months in lockdown. This underscored the urgent need for treatment and vaccines. Billionaire and Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates has said that normalcy will come only when the second generation of the Covid-19 vaccine is released. The World Health Organization …

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 …

The World Health Organization’s top emergency expert has said that European governments must take decisive action to halt the transmission of the coronavirus, including by slowing down massive rallies, to avoid more painful lockdowns. Europe surpassed 100,000 daily cases of Covid-19 for the first time on Thursday, after countries like …

China is participating in a vaccination effort backed by the World Health Organization, stepping in to fill a gap in global health leadership created by the Trump administration. Beijing on Thursday joined the $ 18 billion Covax initiative that aims to give low-income countries the same access to vaccines as …

In the last 24 hours, India recorded 70,496 new cases of coronavirus (Covid-19) and 964 deaths, bringing the overall count and death toll to 6,906,151 and 106,490, respectively. The country’s active cases, which have been below a million for 17 consecutive days, fell further below 900,000 on Friday, while more …

GENEVA: The World Health Organization chief of emergencies said Monday that his “best estimates” indicate that roughly 1 in 10 people worldwide may have been infected by the coronavirus, more than 20 times the number of cases. confirmed, and warned of a difficult period. ahead. Dr. Michael Ryan, in a …