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Par panel recommends generating tribal disaggregated health data
The Committee recommended that the Ministry of Tribal Affairs work...
Clean water in all homes is Modi’s next big India election play
New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s popularity has endured over the years in part due to his focus on giving poorer Indians things like cooking gas, toilets and electricity. Now he wants every rural home to have water by the next national election in 2024....
Committed to expanding institutes of medical excellence for high-quality care for all: Vardhan
Translation medicine has a great future. This centre at AIIMS, Bhopal, has been built with an aim to accelerate the discovery of new diagnostic tools and treatments by using a multi-disciplinary, highly collaborative, ”bench-to-bedside” approach, the Union health minister added.
India’s fintech industry seen at $150-160 bn by 2025: FICCI-BCG report
India’s dynamic FinTech industry has 2100+ FinTechs of which 67% have been set up over the last 5 years alone. The total valuation of the industry is estimated at $50-$60 billion. The industry’s growth has been undeterred by the pandemic, as it has seen the emergence of 3 new Unicorns and 5 new Soonicorns (USD 500Mn+ valuation) since January 2020.
Amid concerns over Covishield, India studies post-vaccination adverse events
India has reported 234 adverse events following immunisation (AEFIs), including 71 deaths, for both the vaccines till Friday, said Dr N K Arora, an advisor to the national AEFI committee.
24,882 new COVID-19 cases recorded in India, recovery rate at 96.82 pc
Maharashtra remains one of the worst affected states in the country with 15,817 new cases reported in the last 24 hours. The total number of active cases stands at 1,10,485 while the death toll stands at 52,723.
‘No evidence’ of blood clot risk from Covid-19 vaccine, says AstraZeneca
The European Medicines Agency (EMA) said Thursday that it did not recommend suspending use of the AstraZeneca vaccine, stating that there is “no indication” the vaccine caused the blood clots in the people who received the vaccine. The agency told countries they could keep rolling out the shot while investigations take place.
“The vaccine’s benefits continue to outweigh its risks and the vaccine can continue to be administered while the investigation of cases of thromboembolic events is ongoing,” the agency said as quoted by CNN.
India uses digital banking and biometrics to organize its 1.3 billion population
The digital network is now the lynchpin for most of India’s social security and cash transfer programs — which had been notorious for corruption and unreliability. Today, the government uses JAM’s direct benefit transfers for 317 programs. It made 2.6 billion transactions in the current financial year, getting more than $46 billion to beneficiaries. The cumulative value of the transfers since the first programs started in 2013 stands at more than $195 billion.
Deboard air passengers not wearing mask ‘properly’ despite warnings: DGCA
The DGCA said it has been noticed that some travellers undertaking air journey do not adhere to “COVID-19 protocols”, which essentially involve wearing of masks properly — not below the nose, right from entering the departing airport to exiting from the arriving airport.
Over six COVID-19 vaccines in offing in India: Harsh Vardhan
”More than half a dozen vaccines are going to come up,” he said.
”Till Saturday morning, 1.84 crore vaccine shots have been given in the country and 20 lakh people were inoculated yesterday,” the minister added.
Beijing mulls new law to curb food wastage
In China, about 17 million tonnes of food was estimated to be wasted each year, enough to feed some 30 million to 50 million people