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Covid-19: India far Behind the US in Total Number of Cases

April 20, 2021 Editor In Chief

NEW DELHI, Apr 20: Though India has overtaken Brazil to become the second worst-hit nation in terms of the number of cumulative Coronavirus cases, the country fortunately is still far behind the world topper the United States. India has been reporting the highest daily caseloads for the past few days and an exponential rise in […]

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44 Lakh Vaccine Doses Wasted in India

April 20, 2021 Editor In Chief

Manas Dasgupta NEW DELHI, Apr 20: When the country is looking at all available resources to augment vaccine production and the prime minister Narendra Modi has repeatedly emphasized on optimum utilization of the life-saving doses, enormous wastage of vaccine doses by various states has shaken the people. According to information given by the union health […]

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Vaccination Opened for All Above 18 Years from May 1

April 19, 2021 Editor In Chief

Manas Dasgupta NEW DELHI, Apr 19: The Centre on Monday opened the Covid-19 vaccination for everyone above the age of 18 from May 1. The decision was taken at a high-level review meeting chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi with doctors and members of the pharma industry. The government said procurement, eligibility, administration of vaccines […]

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Covid-19: “Second Wave less Severe than the First:” ICMR

April 19, 2021 Editor In Chief

Manas Dasgupta NEW DELHI, Apr 19: Even as the country touched yet another new peak of daily cases registering over 2.73 lakh cases in the last 24 hours till Monday morning, leading doctors who are in charge of India’s national COVID-19 management strategy have claimed that there was no difference in mortality among COVID-19 patients […]

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Second Wave Affecting Middle Aged More, Indian Railways to Run “Oxygen Specials”

April 18, 2021 Editor In Chief

NEW DELHI, Apr 18: Several researchers and diagnostic laboratories seem to be in agreement with the Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal who in some recent video clips had claimed that the current second Corona wave was hitting the middle-aged more than the elderly people. A Mumbai doctor even said that they are also seeing children […]

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Covid-19: India Facing Shortage of Infrastructure Facilities

April 18, 2021 Editor In Chief

Manas Dasgupta NEW DELHI, Apr 18: The union minister of state for road transport and highways V K Singh had to issue a request on twitter to “find a hospital bed” for his “brother,” a Covid patient, in Ghaziabad in Uttar Pradesh. The former chief of the army staff quickly followed it up with a […]

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Teacher, Police Patil Suspended for Marriage Ceremony Violating Covid Norms

April 17, 2021 Editor In Chief

NEW DELHI, Apr 17: A teacher of a government ashram school and a police patil (village in-charge) were placed under suspension in Maharashtra on Saturday for violation of Covid-19 norms in organizing a pre-marriage function. The teacher Devram Dandekar held the “haldi” ceremony in connection with his daughter’s marriage at the premises of his  ashram […]

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COVID-19: “India Reporting Sharpest Growth and Alarming Rise of Fatalities:” Health Minister

April 17, 2021 Editor In Chief

Manas Dasgupta NEW DELHI, Apr 17: The centre on Saturday expressed serious concern over India reporting the sharpest growth rate of Corona infections and alarming rise in active cases and fatalities as the Congress leaders at its Working Committee meeting slammed the Narendra Modi government for “not doing enough” to brace the infrastructure up in […]

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“Coronavirus are Predominantly Transmitted through Air:” Researchers

April 16, 2021 Editor In Chief

NEW DELHI, Apr 16: There is consistent, strong evidence to prove that the SARS-CoV-2 virus, behind the COVID-19 pandemic, is predominantly transmitted through the air, according to a new assessment published on Friday in medical journal The Lancet found. It claimed of “consistent, strong evidence” to justify the conclusion that the SARS-CoV-2 virus, which causes […]

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COVID – 19: Steps to Increase Hospital Beds, Remdesivir, Covaxin

April 16, 2021 Editor In Chief

Manas Dasgupta NEW DELHI, Apr 16: In a bid to mop up all available resources for the treatment of the Coronavirus patients, the union health ministry has requested all the central ministries and the public sector undertakings to make available for general Covid patients the hospital facilities with them in different parts of the country. […]

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