New Delhi | India on Tuesday recorded 14,313 fresh Covid cases in the last 24 hours, the lowest in the past 224 days, the Union Health Ministry said. With 181 fatalities in the same time span, the death toll climbed to 4,50,963. With 26,579 patients getting cured of the contagion in the last 24 hours, the […]
Category: COVID-19
WHO to decide on granting Emergency Use Listing to Covaxin next week
New Delhi | The World Health Organization (WHO) will meet next week with an independent group of experts to take a final decision on whether to grant Emergency Use Listing (EUL) to Covaxin. The WHO will carry out the risk and benefit assessments next week with the experts and take a final call on granting the […]
Door-to-door Covid vaccination allowed for disabled: Govt
New Delhi | The government has allowed door-to-door Covid vaccination for differently-abled people and those with restricted mobility, officials said on Thursday. Addressing a press briefing on the Covid situation, NITI Aayog’s Dr V.K. Paul said that guidelines have been issued in this regard. “We are starting vaccinations at home for those who are not able […]
Covid virus to get weaker, become a cold: Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine creator
London | Covid is unlikely to mutate into a deadlier variant and will eventually end up as a common cold, said Professor Dame Sarah Gilbert, who created the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine. Cutting down fears of a more deadly new variant, she said that viruses tend to “become less virulent as they circulate” through the population, Daily Mail […]
India reports 26,964 new Covid cases, spike in fatalities
New Delhi | India reported 26,964 new Covid cases in the last 24 hours which remained below the 30,000 mark for the second consecutive day, Union Health Ministry’s data showed on Wednesday. However, the country witnessed a spike in daily Covid related deaths as 383 fatalities were registered in the last 24 hours. The total Covid […]
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New Delhi | India on Friday set a new record of administering the highest number of Covid vaccine doses in a single day. Accordingly, India achieved the milestone of admimistering over 2 crore vaccine doses by the evening on Friday under the ‘Vaccine Seva’ campaign launched to mark the 71st birthday of Prime Minister Narendra Modi. […]
Sputnik’s single-dose vaccine gets DCGI nod for Phase-III trials in India
New Delhi | The Drugs Controller General of India (DCGI) has granted permission for the conducting of the Phase III bridging trials of Sputnik Light on the Indian population. The Sputnik Light is a single-dose Covid-19 vaccine of the Russian vaccine Sputnik. The nod comes after a recent study published in the medical journal The Lancet […]
3rd Covid wave to be less severe, says BHU scientist
Varanasi | Professor Gyaneshwer Chaubey, senior geneticist of the zoology department in the Banaras Hindu University (BHU), has said that the third wave of coronavirus would be less severe and deadly, especially for the vaccinated group of people, those who have been cured of the virus and the children. He said that people who have been […]
Unvaccinated may be 10 times more likely to die from Covid: US study
Washington | As the Joe Biden administration stepped up efforts to get more people vaccinated, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in three new studies emphasised the importance of Covid shots in preventing death rates, even amid concerns on waning immunity in some populations. The studies appeared in the agency’s Morbidity and Mortality […]
India registers 14% spike in daily Covid cases
New Delhi | India witnessed a spike of 14 per cent in the daily new cases on Thursday as the country recorded 43,263 new infections in the last 24 hours. This is the second consecutive day that the rise had been reported. On Wednesday, the daily Covid tally was 37,875 new infections. With 338 Covid related […]