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Jal Shakti Ministry approves Rs 465 cr performance incentive to 7 states under Jal Jeevan Mission
Since the announcement of Jal Jeevan Mission on August 15, 2019, four crore households have been provided tap water connections, thus increasing the tap water supply from 3.23 crore (17 percent) rural households in the country to more than 7.20 crore (37.6 percent), the statement added.
This is the ”speed and scale” of the work being undertaken to provide clean drinking water to every rural household, it said.
Vaccines may need regular updates as coronavirus evolves, say scientists
The scientists said the novel coronavirus genome is currently estimated to change at a rate of approximately 10 mutations per 10,000 base molecules per year, meaning the speed at which it evolves is substantially higher than that of the endemic coronaviruses.
62,258 new Covid-19 cases,Six states account for 79.57 per cent of fresh infections
Maharashtra, Kerala and Punjab cumulatively account for 73 per cent of the total active cases in the country.
The total vaccination coverage in the country has crossed 5.8 crore, the ministry said.
Increase testing, Centre to 12 states, UTs reporting surge in cases as India records sharpest weekly rise since May last
Besides the ”strong advice” given by the Centre for a significant increase of testing in all districts in line with their positivity rate, the strategy to be adopted included effective isolation and contact tracing of that infected, Re-invigoration of Public and Private Healthcare resources, ensuring of COVID Appropriate Behaviour and targeted approach to vaccination in districts reporting large numbers.
Serum Institute delays expected launch of Novavax vaccine in India
On Saturday Poonawalla said the trials of Corovax had kicked off in India, but did not say why the vaccine launch was delayed.
“It has been tested against African and UK variants of #COVID19 and has an overall efficacy of 89%,” tweeted Poonawalla, whose Serum Institute is the world’s largest manufacturer of vaccines.
US adds India to list of countries affected by African swine fever
African swine feveer is a highly contagious animal disease of wild and domestic swine. It can spread rapidly in swine populations with extremely high rates of morbidity and mortality.
India’s export of pork and related items to the US in 2020 was USD 5,00,000.
There’s need to integrate various regulatory agencies with single-window system: Pharma secy
The medical devices industry, which is growing at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of about 15 per cent, holds the highest growth potential among all the constituents of the healthcare sector such as pharma and hospital services, an official statement said quoting S Aparna, secretary of Department of Pharmaceuticals, under the Ministry of Chemicals and Fertilisers.
Delhi has bent pollution curve, annual level of particulate matter on decline: Report
Delhi has implemented the most ambitious clean fuel policy that has also outlawed coal. But the airshed cannot clean up if coal combustion remains dominant in industrial clusters of the NCR, the report said.
Surge in fresh COVID-19 cases, India records 59,118 new infections
Registering an increase for the 16th day in row, the active cases have increased to 4,21,066 comprising 3.55 per cent of the total infections, while the recovery rate has further dropped to 95.09 per cent, the data stated.
Passengers to be put on ‘no-fly’ list for violating COVID-19 norms: Hardeep Puri
“We can issue SoPs and guidelines in regard to COVID-19, some people are being careless. We have started putting people on the no-fly list,” the Minister said. “When you compare the air travel to surface route, travelling by buses or train, air travel is much safer,” he added.