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India scaling up production of active pharmaceutical ingredients: Kant

Professor K Vijay Raghavan, Principal Scientific Advisor to the Government of India, said personalised medicines are the future in healthcare. Personalised medicine was till recently seen as a “fancy way of having individual-oriented medication” but today in India — due to the dramatic scaling up of telemedicine and a variety of tele-consulting ways — one is going to see personalised medicine at the grassroot-level in a population of more than a billion.

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India’s COVID-19 infection tally crosses 42 lakh

1,016 fatalities being reported in a span of 24 hours
The COVID-19 case fatality rate has further declined to 1.70 per cent.
There are 8,82,542 active cases of the infection in the country which comprises 20.99 per cent of the total caseload, the data stated.
According to the ICMR, a cumulative total of 4,95,51,507 samples have been tested up to September 6 with 7,20,362 samples being tested on Sunday.

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Kolkata doctors provide free online consultation to patients of generic ailments

“Due to COVID-19, we are reluctant to visit doctors for generic illnesses & through this initiative, citizens can get hassle-free consultation by the city’s best doctors from safety of their homes via video call https://t.co/DUiH8XmaJE.

Visit our website  https://t.co/yafzENa4ai to book your appointment now,” KMC Mayor and Urban Development and Municipal Affairs Minister Firhad Hakim said

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SC asks Centre why no ban on disinfectant tunnels despite saying chemicals harmfuL

In the meeting it was recommended, “spraying of disinfectants on humans is not recommended under any circumstances. Spraying any chemical disinfectant is physically and psychologically harmful. Further, chemicals are harmful to human skin and the mucous membrane of the respiratory tract, if needed”, it said.

External spraying of any chemical disinfectant does not kill a virus that has already entered the body of a person, who has earlier been exposed to the virus, the Centre said.

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