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Covid-19: ‘Only half the global population vaccinated so far’

February 12, 2022 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: On a day India reported administration of about 175 crores doses of the coronavirus vaccines since the launch of the vaccination drive in January 2021, reports came that only about half the population of the planet has been vaccinated so far. Quoting “Our World in Data”, the media reported on […]

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Roving Periscope: Four Quad democracies to work for a free, open Indo-Pacific

February 11, 2022 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Despite China condemning the Quadrilateral Security Dialogue (Quad) as a bloc with a ‘cold war mentality for confrontation’, the four democracies’ group, whose foreign ministers met in Melbourne on Friday, resolved to work for a free, open Indo-Pacific Region, in remarks seen as a message to Beijing. It was the […]

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Covid-19: UN chief, world leaders call to raise USD 23.4 bn to end the pandemic

February 10, 2022 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres and some world leaders have called for urgent investments of USD 23.4 billion to put an end to the Covid-19 pandemic this year. “Only if vaccines, tests, and treatments are made available to all the people, we can defeat the pandemic in 2022, ” he […]

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Covid-19: 13 cr infected, 500k died after Omicron surfaced, says WHO

February 9, 2022 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: About 130 million people were infected and 500,000 died across the planet since the Omicron variant of the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus, detected in South Africa, was declared a Variant of Concern (VoC) in November 2021, the World Health Organization (WHO) has said. The pandemic has killed nearly 5.75 million people since […]

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Covid-19: Are pet rodents the primary source of the pandemic?

February 9, 2022 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Even after over two years, China has not admitted that the global pandemic of Covid-19 could have originated in Wuhan’s live animals’ market. But fresh reports from Hong Kong suggest that live hamsters can transmit this pandemic to humans. According to media reports on Wednesday, a pet shop in Hong […]

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Gigantic fall in daily covid-19 cases, 67 thousand new cases in 24 hours

February 8, 2022 Vinayak Barot

New Delhi: India reports less than 70 thousand new covid-19 cases in the last 24 hours. India registered 67,597 new covid-10 cases which are 19 percent less than Monday, Said the Union Health Ministry on Tuesday Morning. A total of 1,188 deaths were registered in 24 hours, taking the death toll to 504,062. The active Covid […]

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DCGI Approves SII’s Proposal to Test Vaccine against Omicron

February 7, 2022 Editor In Chief

NEW DELHI, Feb 7: The Drugs Controller General of India (DCGI) has approved the proposal of the Serum Institute of India (SII) to manufacture a vaccine against omicron variant of coronavirus for examination, test and analysis, official sources said on Monday. “With reference to your application, please find herewith the permission to manufacture SARS-CoV-2 rS […]

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Pay checks: Now, IndiaMART to pay weekly salaries to employees!

February 7, 2022 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: In a strange era when millions of employees lost jobs worldwide in the wake of the pandemic or resigned in several countries in what is now known as “The Great Resignations”, homegrown IndiaMART, a business-to-business (B2B) e-commerce country, has announced to pay weekly salary to its employees. The move, perhaps […]

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Orders Placed for Five Crore Doses of “Corbevax”

February 5, 2022 Editor In Chief

NEW DELHI, Feb 5: Even before deciding which segment of beneficiaries this new vaccine would be administered, the Centre has placed a purchase order with the Hyderabad-based Biological E for five crore doses of COVID vaccine Corbevax each costing ₹145 excluding taxes, official sources said on Saturday. However discussions are underway in technical groups and […]

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Covid-19: WHO Working on “Universal Vaccine”

February 3, 2022 Editor In Chief

Manas Dasgupta NEW DELHI, Feb 3: As the scientists expressed doubts if the current vaccines will work effectively against variants of Omicron that is fast taking over many parts of the world by storm, the World Health Organisation said it had been discussing possibilities of a universal vaccine that work against all variants of the […]