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India’s Covid-19 Tally, Marginal Dip in New Cases

May 13, 2021 Editor In Chief

NEW DELHI, May 13: The number of new cases showed a minuscule decline on Thursday, with 3,62,727 new infections being reported in the last 24 hours as against 3.69 lakh new cases the previous day. But alarmingly, the country recorded more than 4,000 deaths for the second consecutive day reporting 4,120 fatalities on Thursday as […]

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Change again Suggested in Gap between Two Doses of Covishield

May 13, 2021 Editor In Chief

Manas Dasgupta NEW DELHI, May 13: Bringing yet another change in its vaccination policy, the centre on Thursday recommended a wider gap of 12 to 16 weeks between two doses of Covishield vaccine for “better efficacy.” No change, however, has been suggested for injecting Covaxin which remained at four weeks. The government said the new […]

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Opposition Leaders Demand Free Vaccination for All

May 12, 2021 Editor In Chief

NEW DELHI, May 12: Top leaders of twelve opposition parties including the Congress, the Nationalist Congress Party and left parties and some half-a-dozen non-BJP chief ministers have shot off a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi to put across nine demands including a free Covid-19 vaccination campaign. They also asked the PM to halt the […]

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Covid Pandemic: Poor Strategy and Delayed Response Cost over Three Million Lives the World Over

May 12, 2021 Editor In Chief

Manas Dasgupta NEW DELHI, May 12: The heightened scale of the current pandemic was more of man-made caused by callousness in quickly responding to the warning signs and wasting precious times in preparedness to meet the situation, an independent panel of experts has concluded. The Independent Panel of Pandemic Preparedness and Response (IPPPR) constituted by […]

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Two CMs Suggested PM to Open up Vaccine Production

May 11, 2021 Editor In Chief

NEW DELHI, May 11: At least two non-BJP chief ministers have written letters to the prime minister Narendra Modi suggesting the centre to end the patent law for Covid-19 vaccine to allow other interested manufacturers to produce “Covishield” and “Covaxin” to ramp up vaccine production in the country. In almost identical letters the Delhi chief […]

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37 Covid Patients Died in Goa, Andhra Pradesh, Number of New Cases Declining in India

May 11, 2021 Editor In Chief

Manas Dasgupta NEW DELHI, May 11: Even as India registered sharp declines both in the number of new cases and fatalities on Tuesday, at least 26 Covid-19 patients died in Goa and 11 in Andhra Pradesh presumably due to problems in oxygen supply. While the Andhra Pradesh government straightway attributed the deaths to oxygen supply, […]

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Covid-19: Rs.35,000 cr in BudgetFY-22 for vaccination, says govt.

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Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Refuting claims that the Centre has failed to provide funds for vaccination, the Finance Ministry on Monday said provisioning Rs 35,000 crore-expenditure for vaccines in the Union Budget for 2021-22, under the title ‘Transfers to States’, does in no way inhibit the central government from using the funds to buy Covid-19 […]

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Hand Hygiene, Social Distancing and Masks Remain the Best Preventive Measure for COVID: USCDC

May 9, 2021 Editor In Chief

NEW DELHI, May 9: The top American medical body, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, has also found that the principal mode by which people are infected with SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, is through very fine aerosolised particles released during respiration. “Lancet” the top international medical journal had also reported about […]

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Retired Army Doctors to be Re-recruited to Fight Covid

May 9, 2021 Editor In Chief

NEW DELHI, May 9: The Armed Forces Medical Services (AFMS) is set to recruit 400 retired medical doctors for 11 months to strengthen the fight against the Coviid-19 pandemic, officials said on Sunday. The defence ministry passed an order on Saturday to allow the AFMS to recruit these doctors who were released from service between […]

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After Lancet, WHO Scientist Blames “Large Gatherings” for Second Wave in India

May 9, 2021 Editor In Chief

Manas Dasgupta NEW DELHI, May 9: After the international medical journal “Lancet” that lamented India’s squandering away the early success in controlling Coronavirus spread and lambasted the Narendra Modi government for the “self-inflicted national catastrophe,” the World Health Organisation chief scientist Soumya Swaminathan has expressed a similar view as India continued to be battered by […]