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India sets another grim record with 4,529 Covid deaths in last 24 hours
While Maharashtra continues at the top with the highest deaths so far, the western state has been surpassed by Karnataka for largest number of cases being reported last week.
India’s overall tally of Covid-19 cases now stands at 2,54,96,330 with 32,26,719 active cases and 2,83,248 deaths so far.
How Mumbai’s City Officials Made It More Covid-Ready Than Delhi
With a population of 16 million spread across glistening skyscrapers, apartment complexes and sprawling slums, Mumbai is the world’s second-most densely packed city, according to data from the United Nations. About 32,000 people are crammed in per square kilometer. That makes lessons from India’s financial capital particularly valuable as fears grow about outbreaks in other crowded places from Bangkok to Kathmandu.
Howden acquires specialist medical and healthcare broker MPRS
Founded in 2014 by James Dunsby and Chesney Phelps, MPRS is an award-winning insurance broker for medical professionals and healthcare organisations across the UK. It provides accident & health, professional liability, medical malpractice, and commercial combined cover for general practice, private practice and GP federations.
EU takes big step toward relaxing travel for vaccinated
The EU “Council will now recommend that member states ease some of the current restrictions” for those who have been vaccinated, said EU Commission spokesman Christian Wigand.
Vaccination should be taken 3 months after recovery from COVID-19: Health ministry
COVID-19 vaccination should be deferred by three months after recovery in individuals having lab test proven SARS-CoV-2 individuals having lab test proven SARS-2 COVID-19 illness, according to the statement. Also, vaccination in COVID-19 patients who have been given anti-SARS-2 monoclonal antibodies or convalescent plasma to be deferred by three months from the date of discharge from the hospital.
Land to be given for National Institute of Medicinal Plants in Sindhudurg district
The land, located in Aadali village of Dodamarg taluka, will be handed over to the Union AYUSH ministry.NIMP would be a ”one-stop center” for all matters related to medicinal plants and will work in coordination with the state and central government.
Impressed with Bihar’s HIT COVID App, PM seeks details for countrywide use
Chief Minister Nitish Kumar had launched the ”HIT COVID App” on Monday to reach out to coronavirus patients undergoing treatment for the deadly disease in home isolation.
As part of the project, health workers at the grassroots level visit patients in home isolation to record their temperature and oxygen level on a daily basis, and the data is fed to the App.
Need for greater collaboration between countries on various health issues:Harsh Vardhan
India’s federal structure and subsequent public health system posed various challenges due to the wide diversity that prevails throughout the length and breadth of the country, he said.
UK ‘increasingly confident’ that vaccines work against variant from India
Neil Ferguson, an epidemiologist at Imperial College London, said there was a “glimmer of hope” from the latest data that the transmissibility of the variant might be lower than first feared.
Haunted by HIV, top WHO scientist says world must do better on COVID
The World Health Organization’s chief scientist told AFP the inequalities in accessing COVID-19 vaccines today hark back to the late 1990s, when she helplessly watched HIV patients in India wither away when drugs were saving lives in the West.