New Delhi: In a landmark achievement, nearly 80,95,314 doses of Covid-19 vaccines were administered on Monday (May 21), the first day of the new phase of the vaccination drive. Out of the total, the BJP-ruled states accounted for the maximum number of vaccine doses administered across the country. Madhya Pradesh topped the numbers with a total of...
New Delhi: The third wave of Covid-19 can strike India in the next six to eight weeks if crowds are not prevented and if rules are broken, AIIMS Director Randeep Guleria warned on Saturday. "If Covid-appropriate behavior is not followed, the third wave can happen in six to eight weeks. We need to work aggressively to prevent another...
By Barkha Dutt As the government declares the worst of the second wave of the pandemic over in our cities and gets ready to unlock, in our villages, our citizens have been dying. And they have been dying uncounted, and mostly at home, from illnesses that match the exact symptoms of Covid-19, including plummeting oxygen...
By Shashi Shekhar Since early last year, many experts have voiced apprehensions that the coronavirus, which has wreaked such devastation on us, could have originated in a laboratory. But we took little notice of what many dismissed as conspiracy theories. Last week, United States (US) President Joe Biden ordered intelligence officials to submit an investigation...
By Frank F Islam The United States has provided aid worth at least half-a-billion dollars since the devastating second wave of Covid-19 struck India. US tech and financial companies such as Google, Microsoft, MasterCard and others have donated money, medicine and medical devices to India to combat the virus. A lot of the credit for this...
Hyderabad-based Biological E said on Tuesday it has entered into a licensing agreement with Providence Therapeutics Holdings to manufacture the Canadian company's mRNA Covid-19 vaccine in India. Biological E., which also has a separate deal to produce about 600 million doses of Johnson & Johnson's Covid-19 shot annually, will run a clinical trial of Providence's...
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on June 1 chaired a review meeting regarding the Class XII Board exams of Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE). Officials gave a detailed presentation on the wide and extensive consultation held so far and views received from all stakeholders, including State governments. In view of the uncertain conditions due to Covid...
The government on Tuesday said there will be enough Covid vaccines in India by mid-July or early August this year to inoculate up to 10 million people every day. During a media briefing, Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) director-general Dr Balram Bhargava said that Centre will be able to fulfil its goal of vaccinating...
The head of the World Health Organization has called for launching negotiations on an international treaty on pandemic preparedness and response to better ready the world for the next disease outbreak. "This is an idea whose time has come," WHO director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreysesus said Monday during the final day of the World Health Assembly in Geneva....
