The Pfizer-BNT Covid-19vaccineis unlikely to be used in children even after it comes to India,NITI Ayog member Vinod Paul saidon Friday, observing that the Indian requirement is far more than what would come from the pharmaceutical giant.
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President Joe Biden’s administration will discuss with Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government before deciding on the exact number of Covid-19 vaccines India will get out of the doses the United States will donate to other countries from its own stockpile.
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Recent Western researchesand intelligence reports have sparked a clamour for a detailed investigation into whether the coronavirus that has ravaged the world was engineered in a Chinese laboratory from where it escaped, triggering a cover-up.
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Serum Institute of India CEO Adar Poonawalla on Friday thanked US President Joe Biden and External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar for a policy change that will boost the production of Covid-19 vaccines in India and globally.
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The rapid surge in cases during Delhi’s fourth Covid-19 wave was mainly driven by the Delta variant, which likely has immune-evasion properties and accounted for 60 per cent of the cases in April, according to a new study.
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The Centre has sought a clarification from the Punjab government following media reports alleging that it "sold" Covid-19 vaccine to private hospitals and "earned a profit".
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Reliance Foundation, the philanthropic arm of the Mukesh Ambani-led Reliance Industries, has sought the government's authorisation to import 20 lakh doses of US-based Johnson and Johnson's Covid-19 vaccine for captive consumption and to inoculate its workforce pan India, sources said.
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The DCGI has granted permission to the Serum Institute of India (SII) to manufacture the Sputnik Covid-19 vaccine in India for examination, test and analysis with certain conditions, official sources said on Friday.
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Indians are getting Covid-19 shots much faster than the hundreds of millions of people living in the rural areas, government data shows, reflecting rising inequity in the nation's immunisation drive.
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The surge of Covid-19 cases in the country in the last two months shows a correlation with the rise in B.1.617 variant of the SARS-CoV-2, according to INSACOG, a grouping of 10 national laboratories.
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Covid-19 has hit the Arignar Anna Zoological Park in Vandalur on the outskirts of Chennai. A 9-year-old lioness has died of suspected Covid-19, while eight lions lodged inside the zoo have tested positive for the novel coronavirus.
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The Maharashtra government on Friday capped the charges for treatment of mucormycosis patients at private hospitals in the state, where the official number of such cases has gone above 5,000.
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Goa Chief Minister Pramod Sawant on Friday said the state has set a target of vaccinating the entire population in the age group of 18 to 44 years by July 30.
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Amid rising cases of mucormycosis, also called 'Black Fungus', Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Friday appealed to Prime Minister Narendra Modi to make injections for its treatment available to the people free of cost.
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When microorganisms – such as bacteria or viruses – infect us, our immune system jumps into action. It’s highly trained to sense and eliminate infections and clear up any damage caused by them.
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If we analyse data in comparison to May 7 highest reported peak, we are recording a 68% decline in daily cases. 66% of new cases are coming effectively from five states andrest are coming from 31 States/UTs which indicates that we're able to control the virus locally: Health Ministry
As per Our World in Data, the number of people who have received at least one dose of vaccine in India is 17.2 crore. We have overtaken the US in terms of the number of people in our country who have received the first dose of vaccine: Dr. V K Paul, Member-Health, Niti Aayog. (ANI)
People fully vaccinated with the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine are likely to have more than five times lower levels of neutralising antibodies against the Delta variant first identified in India compared to the original strain, according to research published in The Lancet journal.
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Critical of the government's handling of Covid, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Friday said doctors need protection from coronavirus and the BJP dispensation's callousness as he made an appeal to save them.
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Careful monitoring and innovative rationing of oxygen supplies in Bikaner’s only government hospital has helped the district drastically cut down on its oxygen use and save lives amid the country’s second coronavirus wave.
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Hyderabad-based Biological-E is all set to hand India its second homegrown Covid-19 vaccine after striking a deal with the union government to earmark 30 crore doses to be available in the near future.
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The Delhi government has formed a four-member expert committee to look into the deaths due to the shortage of oxygen during the second wave of the Covid-19 pandemic and is awaiting the lieutenant governor's approval, Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia said on Friday.
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Mumbai-based global pharmaceutical firm Wockhardt has inked a major production deal for an undisclosed Covid-19 vaccine and will likely make a formal announcement within two weeks, the company’s chairman said in aninterviewwithNDTVon Thursday.
Arunachal Pradesh'sCovid-19 caseload rose to 28,382 as 364 more people tested positive for the infection, while one new fatality pushed the death toll to 119, a senior health department official said here on Friday. (PTI)
With the addition of 675 coronavirus positive cases, the infection count in Thane district of Maharashtra mounted to 5,19,682, an official said on Friday.
These cases were reported on Thursday, he said.
As the virus claimed the lives of 38 patients during the day, the death toll in the district rose to 9,370.
TheCovid-19 mortality rate of the district is 1.80 per cent, he added. (PTI)
The Delta variant of Covid-19, or the B1.617.2 highly transmissible variant of concern (VOC) first identified in India, has now become the dominant VOC in the UK as infections rose by 5,472 in a week to hit a total of 12,431, health officials in Britain said on Thursday.
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An undeterred BJP MP Gautam Gambhir on Thursday said he will organise free Covid vaccination camps, hours after the Delhi government's drug controller informed the Delhi High Court that his foundation has been found guilty of unauthorisedly stocking and distributing Fabiflu medicine to coronavirus patients.
The second wave may have officially plateaued, but paediatricians are reporting a slight increase in the percentage of child Covid-19 cases.
US Vice President Kamala Harris on Thursday made her first phone call to Prime Minister Narendra Modi to inform him the decision of the Biden Administration to send tens of thousands of doses of life-saving Covid-19 vaccines to India.
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