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States/UTs Told to Revive Covid Testing Rates

January 18, 2022 Editor In Chief

NEW DELHI, Jan 18: The union health ministry has directed the states and the union territories to revive the testing rates of Covid-19 which had been showing declining trend in the last few days. Pointing out that in the last few days testing has , the union additional health secretary Aarti Ahuja directed the local […]

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Economy: Omicron a ‘flash flood’ not wave, and economy can rebound, says RBI

January 18, 2022 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit Mumbai: The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has said the Omicron-led spike in coronavirus infection cases in the country may be “more of a flash flood than a wave”, and the Indian economy could rebound to pre-pandemic levels. In its State of the Economy report, released on Monday as part of the […]

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Covid-19: “We get new variants if we don’t vaccinate all,” says UN chief

January 18, 2022 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has said the world must vaccinate everybody against Covid-19 to avert the emergence of new variants of the virus and ensure a way out of the pandemic. Addressing the all-virtual Davos Agenda of World Economic Forum (WEF) on Monday, he said: “The last two years […]

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WEF: It’s the best time to invest in India, says PM Modi

January 18, 2022 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday invited the world to invest in India as this is the best time to do so in the country which is poised to emerge as the third-largest economy in the coming years. Delivering a special ‘State of the World’ address to the World Economic […]

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Vaccination for 12-14 Age Group may Begin in March

January 17, 2022 Editor In Chief

NEW DELHI, Jan 17: Covid-19 vaccination of children in the age group of 12 to 14 is finally expected to begin in the first week of March. Top government officials on Monday hinted to this effect pointing out that by that time the vaccination of the now on-going 15-18 age group would be completed. A […]

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India Completes One Year in Vaccination Drive, Administers over 156 Cores Doses

January 16, 2022 Editor In Chief

NEW DELHI, Jan 16: As India on Sunday completed one year in its vaccination drive against Covid, the prime minister Narendra Modi, the union home minister Amit Shah and several other senior leaders saluted the health workers and others involved in making the drive successful. The Centre also issued a postal stamp on Sunday afternoon […]

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Covid-19 pandemic will end very soon: The US virologist

January 16, 2022 Vinayak Barot

New Delhi: The US-based virologist on the Covid-19 pandemic considered vaccination progress as the ‘strongest’ weapon against the virus, he said that “the pandemic cannot go on forever, and its end is pretty near.” Dr. Kutub Mahmood – a scientist and Virologist from Washington said, “The virus will go in hiding and people will actually […]

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Health: How Long Can You Wear a KN95, N95, or KF94 Masks

January 15, 2022 Vinayak Barot

In just a few weeks’ time, the Omicron variant has overtaken Delta to become the dominant strain of COVID-19 in the US, making up 95.4% of all coronavirus infections according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The reason? While experts aren’t sure why, the variant is not only more transmissible than previous strains, […]

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PM Underlines local Containment and Vaccination to Check Covid Spread

January 13, 2022 Editor In Chief

NEW DELHI, Jan 13: The Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday interacted with chief ministers over the COVID-19 situation in the country and stressed on local containment of the virus spread as well as ensuring minimum damage to livelihood while making strategies to deal with the surge in cases due to the Omicron variant. In […]

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Covid-19: Unvaccinated queue up for shots as Canada’s Quebec levies health tax

January 13, 2022 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: This is what other countries should also follow: impose health tax on the unvaccinated people to force them to take the shots! The government of the French-speaking Quebec province in Canada has announced to penalize the unvaccinated. Although it is yet to reveal the details of the penalty to be […]