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Roving Periscope: Amid Covid-19 catastrophe, WHO team meets Chinese officials

December 31, 2022 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: A team of experts from the World Health Organization (WHO) met with Chinese officials on Friday as the Asian country battled its worst-ever health crisis because of an unprecedented outbreak of the scourge this month that has left millions infected and thousands dead. In 2020, when Covid-19 assaulted the world, […]

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Green energy: Mobility goes cheaper as EV sales in India over 1 mn this year

December 30, 2022 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: With the green energy market getting traction, the sale of electric vehicles (EVs) in India is set to cross the one million mark this year. Major EV manufacturers like Tata Motors, Ather Energy, Old Electric, and some others are among the main gainers in this new market. Recently, the Kinetic […]

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Roving Periscope: China could see 25,000 Covid deaths a day in January

December 30, 2022 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: The People’s Republic of China, which is currently battling an unprecedented Covid-19 catastrophe with millions of infections and hundreds of deaths daily, could witness around 25,000 deaths a day from the pandemic after January 22, 2023, the Lunar New Year, the media reported on Friday. This scary scenario is casting […]

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Negative Covid Report Made Mandatory for Travellers from China, five Other Countries

December 29, 2022 Editor In Chief

Manas Dasgupta NEW DELHI, Dec 29: India has made it mandatory from Sunday for the passengers travelling from China and five other countries to submit a negative Covid test report before their arrival, Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya announced on Thursday. Besides China, passengers coming from Hong Kong, Japan, South Korea, Singapore and Thailand will also […]

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Roving Periscope: Is China following a ‘scorched earth’ policy on Covid-19?

December 29, 2022 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: The way it rode the roughshod and stonewalled all attempts to investigate the cases when Covid-19 broke out in 2020, and then across the world, China’s current tactics and strategy have given rise to speculations whether it might be following a ‘scorched earth’ policy— a military strategy that aims to […]

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India-Australia FTA: Effective today, trade to triple to $70 bn in 5 years

December 29, 2022 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: The India-Australia free trade agreement (FTA), which came into effect on Thursday, will help boost bilateral trade in goods and services to cross USD 70 billion in the next five years, an economic think said. The two countries signed the India-Australia Economic Cooperation and Trade Agreement (ECTA) on April 2 this […]

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SII Offers to Supply Two Crore Doses of Covishield Free to Centre

December 28, 2022 Editor In Chief

NEW DELHI, Dec 28: The Serum Institute of India (SII), the world’s largest vaccine manufacturer, has offered two crore doses of Covishield vaccine to the central government free of cost amid a rise in COVID-19 cases in some countries, official sources said on Wednesday. Sources said Prakash Kumar Singh, Director of Government and Regulatory Affairs […]

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After Gambia, Uzbekistan Complaints of Children Death due to India-Made Cough Syrup

December 28, 2022 Editor In Chief

NEW DELHI, Dec 28: Months after Gambia complained of children’s death due to consuming India-made cough syrup, a similar complain has now come from Uzbekistan. The Health Ministry of Uzbekistan on Wednesday said 18 children, with acute respiratory disease, have died from taking excessive doses of a cough syrup, Doc-1 Max, manufactured by Marion Biotech, […]

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Covid Precaution: Negative Covid Report May be Made Mandatory for Passengers from Five Countries

December 28, 2022 Editor In Chief

Manas Dasgupta NEW DELHI, Dec 28: With 39 people arriving in India from abroad having tested positive for Covid at airports across the country over the last two days, the centre is learnt to be mulling to make it mandatory for passengers arriving from China and five other Asian countries to carry negative RT-PCR reports […]

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Covid-19: ‘Not one but a cocktail of 4 Omicron variants roiling China’

December 28, 2022 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Amid China’s Covid explosion, which has infected millions and killed thousands this month, a top Indian expert said not one but four variants of the highly contagious Omicron strain are roiling the Asian country in its worst-ever health crisis. Dr. NK Arora, who heads the Government of India’s Covid-19 panel, […]