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Coronavirus can be controlled, WHO Chief says, pointing to decrease in number of new cases
On Friday, the WHO chief warned against coronavirus vaccine hoarding, saying it could lead to slow global economic recovery and most importantly a never-ending pandemic.
Since the start of the pandemic last year, more than 103 million coronavirus cases have been confirmed worldwide, with over 2.2 million fatalities, according to Johns Hopkins University.
India showing a declining trend of Covid-19 cases since last four months, says government
The government’s strategy of focusing on testing, contact tracing, isolation and quarantine-containment is the fundamental approach for managing infectious disease outbreaks of epidemic or pandemic in nature, Minister of State for Health Ashwini Choubey said, adding that the strategy has been recommended globally and by the World Health Organisation for suppressing transmission or breaking the cycle of transmission of Covid-19.
Health sector hails increased allocation, new schemes
The Finance Minister announced that Rs 64,180 crore will be invested over six years to improve primary, secondary and tertiary healthcare.
“Her focus on improving rural and urban health infrastructure in addition to the existing National Health Mission will certainly see many new initiatives coming up, which will help improve the health index of people in the country. Spending on improving supply of potable water through Jal Jeevan Mission too will improve health of citizens across India,” Mervin Leo, Cluster COO, Gleneagles Global Hospitals, told IANS. .
Budget 2021: Social security benefits to be extended to platform and gig workers, says FM
A portal will be set up to collect info on gig and platform workers, building and construction workers, among others, to provide them with benefits like health, credit (easy financing), food, and others, Sitharaman said in her speech.
She noted that for the first time Code on Social Security Code 2020 has made provision for universalisation of social security for the entire workforce including gig and platform workers.
Budget 2021-22: Rs 35,000 cr allocated For COVID-19 vaccination expenditure in FY22
According to the COVID-19 Vaccine Operational Guidelines, the shots will be offered first to an estimated one crore healthcare workers, and around two crore frontline workers, and then to persons above 50 years of age, followed by persons younger than 50 years of age with associated comorbidities based on evolving pandemic situation.
Empty halls, cancelled shots: France’s COVID vaccine rollout falters
Europe faces a vaccine shortfall because Pfizer and Moderna have temporarily slowed supplies, while AstraZeneca said it would reduce volumes allocated to the European Union in the first quarter due to production issues.
Sitharaman’s ‘Economic Vaccine’ coming on Monday; Will Budget 2021-22 go beyond ‘bahi-khata’?
As India emerges from the COVID-19 crisis, the ninth budget under the Modi government, including an interim one, is widely expected to focus on boosting spending on job creation and rural development, generous allocations for development schemes, putting more money in the hands of the average taxpayer and easing rules to attract foreign investments.
India fought COVID-19 pandemic much better than other nations: Vardhan
Emphasising how each and every component of the government acted in sync to control the pandemic, Vardhan noted, ”With all the efforts, it was important to teach COVID-appropriate behaviour, for which our PM personally addressed nation eight to nine times.”
”Caller tune was set to inform COVID-appropriate behaviour; the AarogyaSetu app gave warning of nearby affected people; around 160 million people downloaded it.” Vardhan expressed his deep gratitude to the scientific community for their contribution in developing and testing COVID-19 vaccine.
COVID-19: Scientists develop new tool that may help decontaminate viruses in aerosols
Over the course of the COVID-19 pandemic, studies have found that the novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 spreads via aerosols that can be generated and spread through breathing, coughing, sneezing, or talking by infected individuals.
COVID-19: India records 13,052 new cases, 127 fatalities
The number of people who have recuperated from the disease surged to 1,04,23,125. The COVID-19 case fatality rate stands at 1.44 per cent.
The total COVID-19 active cases remained below 2 lakh for the 12th consecutive day.
There are 1,68,784 active cases of coronavirus infections in the country which comprises 1.57 per cent of the total caseload, the data stated.