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Attacks on doctors, nurses becoming trend in Bengal: Governor
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Drones for Health
“When a woman has lost a lot of blood during childbirth and may need to be transferred to a bigger medical facility, she first needs to be stabilized where she is before being driven out of that place. The timely delivery of blood can be lifesaving. A drone can be sent to deliver the blood so that the patient is stabilized,” says Lorato Mokganya, Chief Health Officer in the Ministry of Health and Wellness.
Nestle, under fire over unhealthy products, working on new strategy
The newspaper said it had seen an internal presentation circulated among top executives early this year stating that more than 60% of Nestle’s mainstream food and drinks portfolio could not be considered healthy under a “recognised definition of health”.
India’s economic growth picks up before huge COVID-19 wave hit
Gross domestic product grew 1.6% in January-March compared with the same period a year earlier, mainly driven by state spending and manufacturing sector growth, data from the statistics ministry showed on Monday.
Economists said the country faces a slowdown in consumer demand as household incomes and jobs have declined, with limited scope for the government to offer growth stimulus due to its rising debt.
Smokers face 40-50 pc higher risk of severe diseases, death from Covid: Vardhan
“We have set an ambitious target of reducing tobacco use by 30 per cent by 2025. Our tobacco control targets have been devised keeping in view the targets for control of non-communicable diseases and are consistent with the targets set under the SDGs. We will be soon releasing the findings of fourth round of Global Youth Tobacco Survey conducted among 13-15 year school going students,” Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan said.
Chinese millennial couples reluctant to have children due to lack of affordable public healthcare
On the other hand, 61.7 per cent cited high financial pressure, followed by a lack of safe and appropriate nurseries at 54 per cent, higher demand for housing at 41.6 per cent, while 24.3 per cent cited the impact it could have on a woman’s career and employment opportunities.
Indian court orders COVID-related audit of Renault-Nissan factory
Nissan, which owns a majority stake in the plant, denied the workers’ allegations of not adequately sticking to safety protocols, and told an Indian court it followed all guidelines
B1617 variant spreading worldwide at ‘frightening speed’: Experts
“What is frightening is the speed at which this variant is able to spread and circulate widely within the community, often surpassing the capability of contact-tracing units to track and isolate exposed contacts to break the transmission chains, a Professor Teo Yik Ying, Dean of the National University of Singapore’s (NUS) Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health, was quoted as saying.
“It has the potential to unleash a bigger pandemic storm than the world has previously seen,” Ying added.
With 1,52,734 new COVID-19 cases, India sees lowest daily rise in 50 days
With this, the total cases have reached 2,80,47,534, and the daily positivity rate stands at 9.07 per cent, which is less than 10 per cent for the seventh consecutive day. Also, the weekly positivity rate dropped to 9.04 per cent.
Provide price capping waiver, indemnity for Moderna’s single-dose Covid-19 vaccine: Cipla to Govt
Requesting the government to provide confirmation on four critical points — exemption from price restriction, indemnification, bridging trial waiver and basic customs duty exemption,
Cipla has said such an assurance will help make this significant financial commitment of more than USD 1 billion (over Rs 7,250 crore) advance to Moderna for its booster vaccine in India, sources privy to the development said.
Monsoon likely to hit Indian coast around June 3- weather office
Nearly half of India’s farmland has no irrigation and depends on annual June-September rains to grow crops such as rice, corn, cane, cotton, and soybeans.