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Government Advisory to TV Channels to Spread Corona Awareness

May 30, 2021 Editor In Chief

NEW DELHI, May 30: The Centre on Sunday issued an advisory for private television channel asking them to help the government spread awareness about the coronavirus disease (Covid-19) pandemic by displaying four national level helpline numbers. The government said it wanted to create awareness about three things – Covid treatment protocol, Covid-appropriate behaviour and vaccination. […]

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“Pfizer Vaccine Less Effective but Protects against More Transmissible Variant:” Study

May 29, 2021 Editor In Chief

NEW DELHI, May 29: A Paris-based institute is claimed to have found that the Pfizer vaccine is slightly less effective but appears to still protect against the more transmissible Covid variant found in India. According to a study by France’s Pasteur Institute, “Despite slightly diminished efficacy, the Pfizer vaccine probably protects” against the variant found […]

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Pandemic Orphaned Children to be Supported by PM CARES FUND

May 29, 2021 Editor In Chief

NEW DELHI, May 29: All children who have lost both their parents in Covid-19 will be supported under the ‘PM CARES for Children’ scheme, the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) said in a statement on Saturday. Such children will get a monthly stipend once they turn 18 and a fund of Rs 10 lakh when they […]

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“India Plans to vaccinate One Crore People Daily by July End:” Guleria

May 29, 2021 Editor In Chief

NEW DELHI, May 29: Even as the daily new cases dipped to 45 days low at 1.73 lakh in the last 24 hours on Saturday morning, the chief of the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) Randeep Guleria, a member of the government Covid panel, said India hoped to vaccinate one crore people daily […]

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Covid-19: Sewa International to fund 100 oxygen plants in India

May 29, 2021 virendra pandit

Mukund Patel Houston, TX: Sewa International will be funding the installation of 100 oxygen generation plants in hospitals across India to ease oxygen scarcity in the country. It has ordered 20-ton Zeolites (molecular sieves that absorb nitrogen and produce oxygen as a product) from Honeywell to establish up to 30 plants immediately. As part of […]

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India Supports Second WHO Investigation into Origin of Coronavirus

May 28, 2021 Editor In Chief

NEW DELHI, May 28: A day after the United States asked the American intelligence agencies to find out how Covid-19 emerged in China, India on Friday supported renewed global calls for a comprehensive investigation by the World Health Organisation (WHO) into the origins of the dreaded virus. There were growing demands by various countries to investigate whether the […]

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Government Roadmap: “Covaxin Manufacturing to Supply is a Four-Month Process:” Bharat Biotech

May 28, 2021 Editor In Chief

Manas Dasgupta NEW DELHI, May 28: On a day the central government claimed to have developed a “clear roadmap” to vaccinate almost all Indians by the end of December, this year, the Covaxin” manufacturer Bharat Biotech virtually threw a spanner pointing out that manufacturing to supply of each dose of vaccine was a long four […]

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India Scraps Local Trial Provision to Expedite Import of Foreign Vaccines

May 27, 2021 Editor In Chief

Manas Dasgupta NEW DELHI, May 27: Initiating a major course correction to expedite imports of foreign-made Corona vaccines, the centre is learnt to have scrapped the condition of “local trials” for “well established” vaccines accepted in some foreign countries to fast-track imports. The condition of satisfactory local trials before approval for emergency use in India […]

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India Scraps Local Trial Provision to Expedite Import of Foreign Vaccines

May 27, 2021 Editor In Chief

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Covid-19: Zydus Cadila seeks DCGI nod for treating mild symptoms

May 27, 2021 virendra pandit

New Delhi: Cadila Healthcare Ltd (Zydus Cadila) has sought permission from India’s drugs regulator for starting the next phase of human clinical trials for its biological therapy to treat mild Covid-19 cases. On Thursday, the Ahmedabad-based company said the therapy named ZRC-3308, a cocktail of two SARS-CoV-2-neutralising monoclonal antibodies (mAbs), targets the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein. […]