Despite the rise in COVID-19 cases, the situation in Mumbai is under control and there is no immediate need to impose a lockdown in the city, senior civic officials said on Tuesday. Mumbai on Monday recorded 1,008 fresh infections that raised its tally to 3,34,572.
In view of successfully running the world's largest COVID Vaccination drive and built up capacity so far, the leading Healthcare Providers body, Association of Healthcare Providers (India)-AHPI- ), has urged the Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi to open up the vaccination for the rest of
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India’s Non-Communicable Diseases (NCD) screening programme, facilitated by Tata Trusts and Dell, has attracted the attention of several South Asian countries. Bangladesh, Bhutan, and Myanmar have already evinced interest in replicating the programme. This followed the World Health Organisation (WHO) presenting the programme to the 11
Till now no “major report of discordant test results” has been reported by COVID-19 testing laboratories, Minister of State for Health Ashwini Choubey told Rajya Sabha on Monday. He was responding to a question on whether capping the price of COVID-19 tests has forced several labs
India has been at the forefront in fighting the coronavirus pandemic and “really stands out” in terms of its vaccine policy, Chief Economist of the IMF Gita Gopinath said on Monday, as she hailed the country for playing a very important role during the crisis
The COVID-19 vaccine from Pfizer Inc and BioNTech SE was able to neutralize a new variant of the coronavirus spreading rapidly in Brazil, according to a laboratory study published in the New England Journal of Medicine on Monday. Blood taken from people who had been given
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A technical committee of experts in Mexico gave a unanimous favorable opinion Friday on approving the COVAXIN vaccine made by the Indian pharmaceutical company Bharat Biotech. The report by the committee for new molecules will be sent to the federal medical safety commission’s approval board,
The production of coronavirus vaccines and scaling up global availability could be seriously limited due to ban on exports of critical raw materials by the US, according to Serum Institute of India (SII) CEO Adar Poonawalla. He also called for regulatory harmonisation between organisations such as
