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EU warns of risks of Covid-19 vaccine race after UK approval of Pfizer shot
EU lawmakers were critical of Britain’s decision.
“I consider this decision to be problematic and recommend that EU Member States do not repeat the process in the same way,” said Peter Liese, an EU lawmaker who is a member of German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s party.
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People proving to be weakest link for apps tracking COVID-19 exposure
The problem starts with downloads. Stefano Tessaro calls it the “chicken-and-egg” issue:
The system works only if a lot of people buy into it, but people will buy into it only if they know it works.
“Accuracy of the system ends up increasing trust, but it is trust that increases adoptions, which in turn increases accuracy,” Tessaro, a computer scientist at the University of Washington who was involved in creating that state’s forthcoming contact-tracing app, said in a lecture last month.
Over 1.4 crore cashless treatments under Ayushman Bharat so far: Harsh Vardhan
According to the statement, 14 hospital admissions are being registered per minute under the scheme and 24,653 hospitals (public: private = 54:46) have been empanelled.
COVID-19 caseload in India rises to 94.62 lakh
The total number of people who have recuperated from the disease surged to 88,89,585, pushing the national recovery rate to 93.94 per cent. The COVID-19 case fatality rate stands at 1.45 per cent.
The active COVID-19 caseload remained below five lakh for the 21th consecutive day. There are 4,35,603 active cases in the country which comprised 4.60 per cent of the total caseload, the data stated.
COVID-19 patients treated as untouchables once posters pasted on their homes, says SC
The bench had observed that when the Delhi government has agreed in the high court not to paste posters, why cannot the Centre come up with guidelines dealing with the matter for the entire country
India recorded largest reductions in malaria cases in South-East Asia between 2000-2019: WHO
“Countries in South-East Asia made particularly strong progress, with reductions in cases and deaths of 73 per cent and 74 per cent, respectively. India contributed to the largest drop in cases region-wide from approximately 20 million to about 6 million, WHO Director-General Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said in the report’s forward.
COVID-19 worsens Europe’s inequalities in yet another way – the fertility gap
Evidence suggests the coronavirus is deterring would-be parents from conceiving in most of Europe, but especially in the southern countries – from Italy to Greece – where safety nets are weakest and the birth rate was already in strong decline.
New AI model may help treat cancer more effectively, study says
“This will help cancer researchers to prioritise which drug combinations to choose from thousands of options for further research,” said Tero Aittokallio from the University of Helsinki in Finland.
The researchers noted that the same machine learning approach could be used for non-cancerous diseases.
Factbox: When and which COVID-19 vaccines are likely to be available in Asia
Japan has deals to purchase 120 million doses from Pfizer/BioNTech in the first half of next year, 120 million from AstraZeneca, of which first 30 million will be shipped by March 2021, and 250 million from Novavax.
It is also in talks with Johnson & Johnson and has a deal with Shionogi & Co.
Never spoke about inoculating entire country with COVID-19 vaccine: Govt
“Our purpose is to break the chain of virus transmission. If we are able to vaccinate a critical mass of people and break the chain of transmission, then we may not have to vaccinate the entire population,” ICMR Director General Balram Bhargava said