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World’s fastest recovery outlook at risk as coronavirus sweeps India
That uncertainty doesn’t look to be going away in a hurry, with India adding more than 300,000 cases daily for at least three consecutive days last week, pushing the total infections to more than 16.5 million. While the outbreak has overwhelmed the nation’s hospitals and crematoriums, it’s also hit consumer confidence in an economy that was only beginning to recover from an unprecedented recession last year.
Italy imposes travel ban from India over COVID variant
Many countries including Hong Kong, US, UK, Kuwait, France, New Zealand and Canada , have banned flights from India, citing COVID-19 cases and the “double mutant” virus being found in the country.
Iran, Kuwait, Indonesia and UAE are the latest additions to this list of countries that have banned India from their citizens’ travel lists.
Govt bars use of liquid oxygen for non-medical purposes amid acute shortage
He said it was considered necessary to restrict industrial usage of oxygen for ensuring availability of adequate and uninterrupted supply of medical oxygen across the country for management of COVID-19 patients and necessary order in this regard was issued on April 22 to restrict the use of industrial oxygen.
Covid-19 challenge bigger than last year, stop it from hitting villages: PM
“I have this confidence that if someone is going to emerge victorious first in this fight against the coronavirus, then it is going to be India’s villages, the leadership of these villages… The people of the villages will show the way to the country and the world,” the prime minister said.
Only online registration for 18-45 age group to get Covid jab, says Centre
Sharma noted that the COWIN platform has now stabilized and is working at scale flawlessly. It is equipped to handle the complexities of the new phase of vaccination starting from 1st May.
With regards to the Phase-3 vaccination strategy from May 1, the states were advised to register additional private COVID-19 Vaccination Centres (CVCs) on mission mode by engaging with private hospitals, hospitals of industrial establishments, industry associations, etc., the health ministry said in a statement.
Delhi HC calls second wave as tsunami, asks Centre about preparedness to deal with peak
“We are calling it a wave, it is actually a tsunami, the court said, and asked the Centre about the preparedness in terms of infrastructure, hospitals, medical staff, medicines, vaccines and oxygen as on date for the peak,” said the court.
Solicitor General Tushar Mehta, representing the Centre, said there might be a rapid rise in the number of cases in May and June and the country needs to be ready for the worst.
China could rule world’s technology, UK cyber spy chief says
“Significant technology leadership is moving East,” Fleming said at Imperial College London. “The concern is that China’s size and technological weight means that it has the potential to control the global operating system.” “We are now facing a moment of reckoning,” he said.
Bharat Biotech prices Covaxin at Rs 600 for states, Rs 1,200 for pvt hospitals
”We would like to state that more than 50 per cent of our capacities have been reserved for Central Government supplies,” Ella said.
Earlier this week, the Serum Institute of India (SII) had announced a price of Rs 400 per dose for ”Covishield” for state governments and Rs 600 per dose for private hospitals.
Over 21k tested positive for Covid-19 after taking first dose of either Covishield or Covaxin: Govt
“This is a very small number and not at all worrisome. Secondly, the highly transmissible second wave also contributed (in) miniscule (way) to the percentage so this could have been even zero per cent,” ICMR Director General Balram Bhargava said.
India asks Twitter to take down some tweets critical of its COVID-19 handling
The law cited in the government’s request was the Information Technology Act, 2000.
“If the content violates Twitter’s rules, the content will be removed from the service. If it is determined to be illegal in a particular jurisdiction, but not in violation of the Twitter Rules, we may withhold access to the content in India only,” the Twitter spokeswoman said .