A central team constituting seven members will be visiting the regions affected by Cyclone Yaas in West Bengal today and tomorrow. The central team reached Kolkata on Sunday. The team has bifurcated into two, with one to review the conditions of the road and the other left for aerial survey of villages located in the…
Prime Minister Narendra Modi, while addressing the nation on Monday, stated the Central Government will buy 75 percent of the overall vaccine production from the manufacturing companies and then supply it to the states free of cost and also take charge of the 25 percent work related with vaccination with the states. PM Modi said,…
After administering two doses of Covishield vaccine, more antibodies against spike protein of Sars-CoV-2, the virus which causes Coronavirus infection as compared to Covaxin, according to the findings of the pre-print study based on real-world data for the healthcare workers across the country. The data was collected from 515 vaccinated health care workers across 21…
Kerala will be administering the first dose for the vaccine against Covid-19 for everyone above 40 years of age by July 15, said Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan on Saturday, further adding that the government is planning for a vigorous campaign to be launched to accomplish the target. During the core – committee meeting over…
The Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) on Saturday told the Indian students who are studying in foreign universities and currently stuck in India due to Covid-19 restrictions to contact their OIA Division – II. The MEA spokesperson, Arindam Bagchi tweeted, “Kind Attention! Indian students studying abroad but stuck in India due to Covid-19 and related…
Indian Medical Association’s Uttarakhand wing has strongly opposed including Patanjali Ayurved’s Coronil in the Covid-19 kit given by the Uttarakhand government. The doctor’s body iterated that the World Health Organization has not given any approval for Coronil and neither has the Drugs Controller General of India (DCGI) given any approval for the drug. However, Coronil…
Union Minister of State for External Affairs V Muraleedharan on Friday had a virtual meeting with the Indian community based in Nigeria, Benin and Chad via video conferencing and reassured them of the government’s commitment to assist them and for their welfare. Muraleedharan wrote on Twitter, “Had a fruitful interaction with the Indian community in…
The Drugs Controller General of India (DCGI) on Friday approved the Pune-based Serum Institute of India (SII) to begin manufacturing of Russian Covid-19 vaccine, Sputnik V, days after the application filed by SII. According to news agency PTI citing official source, “The DCGI has granted permission to the Serum Institute to manufacture the Sputnik Covid-19…
NITI Aayog member (Health) Dr VK Paul on Friday announced that India had surpassed the United States with a greater number of people administered the first dose of Covid-19 vaccine. Paul stated, “As per the data, the number of people who have received at least one dose of vaccine in India is 17.2 crore. We…
The All India Institute of Medical Science (AIIMS), New Delhi had initiated a study on the people who were found to be infected with Covid-19 after vaccination, and it was reported that there was no incidence of any fatalities. The time period when the study was conducted was in the months of April-May, exactly when…