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Afghanistan: Iran, India to cooperate for humanitarian supplies to Kabul

January 10, 2022 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: With Islamabad persistently sabotaging New Delhi’s attempts to send humanitarian aid, including 50,000 metric tons of wheat, to the Taliban-ruled Afghanistan, Iran has agreed to cooperate with India in shipping help to the landlocked, war-torn, and cash-strapped country facing a famine-like situation in biting winter. The Iranian offer came during […]

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PM Chaired Covid Review Meeting as Cases Surged

January 9, 2022 Editor In Chief

Manas Dasgupta NEW DELHI, Jan 9: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday chaired a high-level meeting through video conferencing to review the Covid-19 pandemic situation, even as the country recorded a steep rise in the number of fresh Coronavirus cases coming close to level it had reached in the mid-second wave period. Believed to be fuelled […]

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India May Report Five Lakh Covid-19 Case per Day in February: The US Health Expert

January 8, 2022 Vinayak Barot

New Delhi: The US-Based health expert Dr. Christopher Murray has expressed concern about the rise of covid-19 cases in India. Murray said that “India is expected to register about 5 lakh cases during peak which is likely to come in February.” Christopher Murray is a Director at Institute for Health Metrics & Evaluation. On the […]

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Mandatory 7-Day Home Quarantine for All International Travellers to India

January 7, 2022 Editor In Chief

NEW DELHI, Jan 7: All international travelers to India will now have to compulsorily undergo seven-day quarantine at home, even if they test negative for Covid-19 at the airport, and get tested on the eighth day. The centre on Friday announced the new rule that would take effect from Tuesday to tackle a huge Omicron-driven […]

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Covid-19: ‘Omicron’s mildness an evolutionary mistake; more variants in 2022′, say experts

January 7, 2022 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: There is no reason to be complacent that Omicron is less virulent than its predecessor Delta. For, its successor variant could be more virulent, a leading microbiologist of Indian origin has warned. Another expert has said this pandemic may never go away and more variants may come in 2022. According […]

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WHO Yet to Grant EUL to Covaxin for Teens

January 6, 2022 Editor In Chief

Manas Dasgupta NEW DELHI, Jan 6: Even though India has launched vaccination for the teen-agers on January 3 and lakhs of young ones have taken the jabs, experts have pointed out that “Covaxin” is yet to get a nod from the World Health Organisation (WHO) for emergency use listing (EUL) for people below 18 […]

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Andhra Pradesh Tops in the list of first dose vaccine distribution to 15-18 year old

January 6, 2022 Vinayak Barot

Hyderabad: In the middle of the rising cases of the covid-19 in the nation, all the states should learn from Andhra Pradesh as 52.82 percent of children got vaccinated in just three days of vaccine to 15-18 years old. Andhra Pradesh topped in the list of first dose vaccine distribution to 15-18-year-olds across the nation. […]

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First Omicron-Linked Death in India

January 5, 2022 Editor In Chief

NEW DELHI, Jan 5: India on Wednesday reported its first Omicron-linked death. The joint secretary in the Union Health Ministry Lav Aggarwal said the death of a person with comorbidities, including diabetes, had been reported from Rajasthan and this was “technically” a Omicron-related death. The 73-year-old, who was found infected with Omicron in genome sequencing, […]

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New Guidelines for Home Quarantine: Testing of Asymptomatic Contacts Dropped, Isolation Period 7 Days

January 5, 2022 Editor In Chief

Manas Dasgupta NEW DELHI, Jan 5: Even though country recorded more than 50,000 new Covid cases on Wednesday, the centre issued new guidelines for home quarantine ruling out testing for asymptomatic contacts of positive patients and reducing the isolation period from 10 to seven days after testing positive. The government also ruled out mixing Covid-19 […]

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Covid-19: As Omicron spreads, French variant IHU, not a threat yet, says WHO

January 5, 2022 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: The global health watchdog has said the new coronavirus variant found in France is not a threat yet, although it affects the upper respiratory tract, causing milder symptoms than previous variants of the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus. On Tuesday, the World Health Organization (WHO) said a new variant, tentatively called IHU and […]