The Delhi High Court was on Monday told that megastar Amitabh Bachchan’s voice has been removed from the caller tune on precautions against coronavirus and therefore, nothing remains in the PIL which sought its removal. The submission was made before a bench of Chief Justice D N Patel and Justice Jyoti Singh by the petitioner […]
India recorded 87 new COVID-19 cases per million population in the last seven days which is one of the lowest in the world when compared with countries like the US, the UK, Russia, Germany, Brazil, France and Italy, the Union Health Ministry said on Friday. It further said that only one new death per million […]
The national capital is all set for the roll-out of the COVID-19 vaccination exercise on Saturday at 81 centers with healthcare workers who have been at the forefront of the fight against the pandemic to be given the shots first. The inoculation drive will be kicked off from the state-run LNJP Hospital with a simple […]
A group of doctors and scientists on Thursday hit out at the critics of the government’s approval of two COVID-19 vaccines, especially the one produced indigenously by Bharat Biotech, alleging that their “reprehensible” utterances are causing huge credibility crisis for the Indian scientific community. In a statement signed by 45 medical professionals and scientists, the […]
The first consignment of 64,460 doses of Covishield vaccine reached the storage facility in Aurangabad in Marathwada region of Maharashtra on Wednesday, officials said. This storage facility will cater to districts of Jalna, Hingoli, and Parbhani, besides Aurangabad, an official told PTI. “We have received 64,460 doses of the vaccine from the SII in Pune. […]
Indonesian President Joko Widodo on Wednesday received the first shot of a Chinese-made COVID-19 vaccine after Indonesia approved it for emergency use and began efforts to vaccine millions of people in the worlds fourth most populated country. After Widodo, top military, police and medical officials were vaccinated, as well as the secretary of the Indonesian […]
Bharat Biotech, which has received Emergency Use Authorization approval from the Drug Controller General of India for its COVID-19 vaccine Covaxin, is set to dispatch it from the Rajiv Gandhi International Airport here on Tuesday evening, a senior official of the Airports cargo division said. “Today we have received the first consignment of vaccines from […]
Four airlines will operate nine flights to transport 56.5 lakh doses of COVID-19 vaccine from Pune to 13 cities across the country on Tuesday, said Civil Aviation Minister Hardeep Singh Puri. Vaccine movement has started, he said on Twitter, adding that first two flights operated by “SpiceJet and GoAir from Pune to Delhi and Chennai […]
Scientists have demonstrated that a single-dose COVID-19 vaccine candidate, which could potentially be stored at room temperature, can produce immunity against the novel coronavirus in mice. The vaccine, described in the ACS Central Science journal, contains ultrasmall nanoparticles studded with the spike proteins of the coronavirus which enables it to enter host cells. “Our goal […]
China said on Monday that a group of experts from the WHO will arrive in the country on Thursday for a long-anticipated probe into the origins of the coronavirus pandemic, ending the uncertainty and delay which drew sharp criticism from the world health body. Experts from the WHO will conduct a field visit to China […]
Researchers at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Madras have found that holding breath may increase the risk of getting COVID-19 infection. The researchers modelled breathing frequency in a laboratory to better understand how the rate of flow of droplet laden with virus determines its deposition in the lungs. The findings of the study have […]
