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Chances of 3rd wave quite real, Delhi govt preparing on war-footing: CM
Indications are coming from the UK on the fear of the third wave. Cases are rising there, despite 45 per cent of vaccination. So, we cannot afford to sit idle, he said.Kejriwal was speaking at an online event during which he jointly inaugurated 22 new PSA oxygen plants at nine hospitals across Delhi.
”These new oxygen plants at nine hospitals across Delhi being added today to strengthen our preparations to fight Covid,” he said.
GST council cuts taxes on some COVID-19 medicines and equipmen
While GST on Tocilizumab and Amphotericin B is slashed to nil from 5 per cent, the rate on Remdesivir and anti-coagulants like Heparin is lowered from 12 per cent to 5 per cent.
IMA to hold country-wide protest on June 18 against assault of doctors
The Indian Medical Association has termed ”extremely disturbing” a series of violence against doctors in the last two weeks in Assam, Bihar, West Bengal, Delhi, Uttar Pradesh, Karnataka, and other places.
It demanded the implementation of the central hospital and Health Care Professionals Protection Act with IPC and Code of Criminal Procedure (CrPC), standardization and augmentation of security in each hospital, and declaring hospitals as protected zones among others.
719 doctors have lost their lives due to coronavirus in the second wave of the COVID pandemic with Bihar recording the maximum fatalities.
CoWIN hack and data leak is baseless: Govt
Dr R S Sharma, Chairman of the Empowered Group on Vaccine Administration, has clarified that “the claims of so-called hackers on the dark web, relating to alleged hacking of the Co-WIN system and data leak, is baseless. We continue to take appropriate steps as are necessary, from time to time, to ensure that the data of the people is safe with Co-WIN.”
No substantial evidence to suggest children will be more affected in Covid third wave: Report
According to the data, mortality rates amongst these surveyed hospitalised Covid-19 positive children below the age of 10 years was 2.4 per cent and about 40 per cent of the children who died had comorbidities.
Covid’s 2nd wave deadly, causing mental ailments: Gehlot
“Post-Covid side effects in people after prolonged treatment is a matter of concern for us,” he said.”It is our endeavour that such patients and families get proper treatment and counselling so that they can recover from these health problems at the earliest,” an official statement quoted Gehlot as saying.
Non-life insurers’ gross direct premium rises 11 pc to Rs 12,316 cr in May
The six standalone private sector health insurance companies registered a jump of 66.6 per cent in their gross premium at Rs 1,406.64 crore in May 2021, as against Rs 844.13 crore earlier.
On a cumulative basis, the gross direct premium of all the non-life insurance companies grew by 17.5 per cent to Rs 29,626 crore in April-May 2021-22, as against Rs 25,212.55 crore in the same period of the previous fiscal.
Passenger vehicle sales in India dip 66 per cent in May as COVID disruptions take toll: SIAM
Commenting on the sales data, SIAM Director General Rajesh Menon said that many states were under lockdown due to COVID-19 cases for most part of May thus impacting overall sales and production during the month.
“Many members (auto cos) had also shut down their manufacturing plants to divert oxygen from industrial use for medical purposes,” he added.
‘Worse than Covid’: Threat of pandemics spurs race for vaccines in 100 days
The specter of another global crisis, along with the potential emergence of a deadlier foe, is pushing disease trackers to begin preparations now, even as Covid continues to rage in some regions. Researchers and governments want to smash vaccine development records set during this pandemic, harnessing technologies such as messenger RNA, and build a stronger system that can respond swiftly to stop the next outbreaks from exploding when they do occur.