The Serum Institute of India (SII) stated it will have the capability to manufacture and supply 90 to 100 million doses of Covishield, the Covid-19 vaccine in the month of June, as reported by the news agency PTI on Sunday quoting a letter of a senior official. According to PTI, in a letter to the…
With the ongoing war of words between Indian Medical Association (IMA) national chief Dr. JA Jayalal and the yoga guru Ramdev, Dr. Jayalal on Friday made a statement that IMA has nothing against Ramdev and will take back the complaints after he withdraws his statement against the modern medicine. Dr. Jayalal revealed to news agency…
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken had a meeting with External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar Prasad in Washington and had a talk about several issues which extends to Covid-19 relief measures, efforts to further enhance the Indo-Pacific cooperation through the Quad, according to US State Department spokesperson Ned Price’s statement on Friday. Quad is a…
The Karnataka government has taken the call to turn down the bids made by companies for supplying Russia’s Sputnik V vaccine citing the exorbitantly high prices quoted by the companies. The government decided to reject the bid as Dr. Reddy’s Laboratories announced about having the sole distribution rights for the first 250 million doses of…
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday declared that for all the children whose both parents or guardian have succumbed to the Covid-19 virus will be provided financial assistance under ‘PM-CARES for Children’ scheme. According to a release from the Press Information Bureau (PIB), the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) released a statement that such children will…
The total count of 18,040 oxygen concentrators along with 19,085 oxygen cylinders and around 770,000 Remdesivir vials which were received as medical aid from several countries have been directed to the States or Union territories directly from April 27 to May 28 during the worsening health infrastructure of the states in the second wave of…
The Centre clarified that vaccination with doses of two distinct vaccines is not an issue as 20 people in the Siddharthnagar district of Uttar Pradesh bordering Nepal were given doses of two different vaccines, which was a case of negligence. The vaccination centres should continue with the same vaccine for both doses as per the…
The Indian Navy said that it will carry on with the rescue operations in the worst affected areas of the Balasore district in Odisha with the destruction caused by Cyclone Yaas. According to an official statement released by the Indian Navy on Thursday, “The Navy Disaster Relief Team was deployed on May 27 at Sadar…
The Karnataka Government on Monday directed the officials to not restrict the movement for cremation purposes, following which people are now allowed to conduct cremation, immerse ashes and finish the complete death ceremonies according to their religious rituals. In an observation, where several individuals were travelling to immerse the ashes and performing the death ceremonies…
Defence Research and Development Organization (DRDO) has developed a drug for the treatment of Covid-19 which will be available in the market at a price of Rs 990 per sachet which be sold by Dr. Reddy’s Laboratories, officials revealed on Friday. Although, The Centre and the states will able to get the medicine at a…
