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Covid: WHO Tracking Omicron Sub-Variants

February 1, 2022 Editor In Chief

NEW DELHI, Feb 1: The World Health Organisation (WHO) has cautioned the governments and people in different countries against dropping guards against Coronavirus and said it was closely tracking the Omicron variants as these were evolving. WHO tracking sub-lineages of Omicron variant In a message on Tuesday the WHO Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said, […]

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Covid: Little Respite, Another Omicron Version is Knocking the Doors

February 1, 2022 Editor In Chief

Manas Dasgupta NEW DELHI, Feb 1: Even as the new daily cases in India continued to dip during the last few days, fresh studies on newer variants in different countries provide little solace to the pandemic-stricken world. The new studies are emerging that suggest the latest version of the highly-infectious omicron variant is transmitting even […]

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Covid-19: India reports 1.67 lakh cases in 24 hours

February 1, 2022 Vinayak Barot

New Delhi: India’s daily COVID-19 tally dropped below 2 lakh as the country reported 1,67,059 fresh infections in the last 24 hours. The country also reported 1,192 COVID-related deaths and 2,54,076 recoveries in the last 24 hours. India’s active caseload currently stands at 17.43 lakh cases, comprising 4.2 percent of total infections in the country. […]

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PM Congratulates People for Making Vaccination Drive a Success

January 30, 2022 Editor In Chief

Manas Dasgupta NEW DELHI, Jan 30: Even as vaccination remained the most potential weapon to fight against the spread of Coronavirus two years after the first Corona case was detected in the country on January 30, 2020, the prime minister Narendra Modi on Sunday congratulated the “fellow citizens for achieving the momentous feat of fully […]

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Covid Number Plateauing but India is Still not out of Woods: WHO

January 29, 2022 Editor In Chief

NEW DELHI, Jan 29: Even though the number of daily Covid cases is plateauing, India is still not out of the risk, the World Health Organisation (WHO) has cautioned. Instead India must now focus more on reducing the spread of the virus, increase vaccination and implement “situation-specific public health measures, the WHO regional director for […]

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Third Wave Have Peaked in India and Now May Decline: Experts

January 28, 2022 Editor In Chief

Manas Dasgupta NEW DELHI, Jan 28: The third Coronavirus wave may have already peaked in India and is may be on the declining stage, experts believe. The experts have also discounted a theory circulating for the last few days about a new killer virus NeoCov which was reportedly found in bats in South Africa and […]

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DCGI Approves Phase-III Clinical Trial for Covaxin Intranasal Booster Dose

January 28, 2022 Editor In Chief

NEW DELHI, Jan 28: The Drugs Controller General of India (DCGI) has given vaccine manufacturer Bharat Biotech approval for conducting Phase-III clinical trials of an intranasal booster dose for those who have received both doses of Covaxin. Only the Central Drugs Laboratory (CDL), Kasauli, certified batches shall be used in the clinical trials, which will […]

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“Covid Infections Plateauing but Need to be Observed Closely:” Govt

January 27, 2022 Editor In Chief

NEW DELHI, Jan 27: Noting that about 400 districts have logged weekly COVID positivity rate of over 10 per cent, the union government on Thursday said the trend needed to be observed closely though early indications of Covid infections plateauing have been reported in some places. Stressing the need to continue with precautions to curb […]

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“Conditional Market Authorisation” Granted to Covishield, Covaxin

January 27, 2022 Editor In Chief

Manas Dasgupta NEW DELHI, Jan 27 India’s drug regulator on Thursday granted “Conditional Market Authorisation” to both Serum Institute of India-manufactured “Covishield” and Bharat Biotech’s “Covaxin” vaccines for Covid-19 for use in the adult population subject to certain conditions, official sources said. The approval was granted under the New Drugs and Clinical Trials Rules, 2019. […]

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Covishield, Covaxin Prices may be Capped at Rs 425

January 26, 2022 Editor In Chief

NEW DELHI, Jan 26: The prices of Covishield and Covaxin, the Covid vaccines which are expected to soon get regular market approval from India’s drug regulator, is likely to be capped at Rs 275 per dose plus an additional service charge of Rs 150, official sources said. According to them, the National Pharmaceutical Pricing Authority […]