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India records highest Coronavirus deaths in more than a month
According to the Indian Council of Medical Research, the number of tests conducted for detection of COVID-19 in India has reached 5,06,50,128 with 10,98,621 samples being tested on Monday.
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.
Max Life Insurance launches COVID-19 1-yr term rider with diagnosis and death benefit
This rider provides financial protectionin case of diagnosis anddeath due to COVID-19
Upon COVID-19 diagnosis, 20% ofridersum assured is provided
Upon deathafter being diagnosed with COVID-19,100% ofridersum assured will be paid to nominee in addition to the diagnosis benefit, if not already paid.
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.
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
Country”s biggest COVID Care Centre to be shut from Sep 15
Following the government”s decision to allow home isolation of asymptomatic and mildly symptomatic COVID cases, there has been a drastic fall in people getting admitted to the centre, official sources said.
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.
As India’s Covid-19 cases rise, docs ‘scared like the patients, exhausted’
Data from the Indian Medical Association, that represents 350,000 doctors across the country, shows almost 200 doctors have died from the coronavirus.
China offers experimental Coronavirus vaccine to Aviation workers
It is not clear yet which candidate vaccine will be given and how many people will be vaccinated.t least two experimental vaccines, one from Sinovac Biotech Ltd and the other from China National Biotec Group, have been approved for emergency use in China.
“World must be more ready for next Pandemic” : WHO
“This will not be the last pandemic,History teaches us that outbreaks and pandemics are a fact of life. But when the next pandemic comes, the world must be ready – more ready than it was this time,”” World Health Organization chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told a news briefing in Geneva