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Health Ministry not to procure fresh Covid vaccines; surrenders Rs 4,237 crore from vaccination budget
Since the Covid cases have been low, a sense of complacency has...
PM to kickstart distribution of PMJAY-MA Yojana Ayushman cards in Gujarat
Prime Minister will kickstart the distribution of these cards,...
Israel isolates coronavirus antibody in ‘significant breakthrough’:Minister
The “monoclonal neutralising antibody” developed at the Israel Institute for Biological Research (IIBR) “can neutralise it (the disease-causing coronavirus) inside carriers’ bodies,” Defence Minister Naftali Bennett said in a statement.
COVID-19 death toll touches 1,694; cases rise to 49,391
Maharashtra, which is battling surge in COVID-19 cases, has requested the hospitals under the Railways, the Army and other Central undertakings to make their facilities in the state available to the government which is planning to ramp up the number of ICU beds
India now has 52,952 cases of coronavirus, death toll 1783: health ministry
Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan on Wednesday expressed his concern over the high fatality rate among COVID-19 patients in some districts of Maharashtra and Gujarat and asked the states to focus on early surveillance, aggressive contact tracing and early diagnosis to reduce the number of deaths.
“Businesses need to restart facilities with care and caution after coronavirus lockdown”:AGCS
“Restoring operations at a facility that was once idle or vacant presents another set of loss prevention challenges, particularly to manufacturing plants with hazardous equipment or processes,” explains Stephen Clark, Global Technical & Expertise Manager for Property Risk Consulting at AGCS.
Gilead in talks to expand global supply of COVID-19 drug remdesivir
Gilead also said on Tuesday it was negotiating long-term licenses with several generic drugmakers in India and Pakistan to produce remdesivir for developing countries and that it would provide technology to aid the production.
‘No security breach in Aarogya Setu App’: Govt assures after ethical hacker raises privacy concerns
The app fetches users’ location and stores on the server in a secure, encrypted, anonymised manner – at the time of registration, at the time of self assessment, when users submit their contact tracing data voluntary through the app or when it fetches the contact tracing data of users after they have turned COVID-19 positive, it said.
Researchers double U.S. COVID-19 death forecast, citing eased restrictions
The latest forecast predicts the cumulative number of U.S. deaths from COVID-19 will run from as few as 95,092 to as many as 242,890 by Aug. 4 – with 134,475 lives lost representing the most likely, middle ground.
By comparison, the previous revision issued on April 29 put the middle-case figure at 72,400 deaths, within a range between 59,300 and 114,200 fatalities.
WHO cautions against untested COVID-19 traditional remedies
Madagascar’s president, Andry Rajoelina, is promoting a cure based on the plant. Although the herbal mix has not been scientifically tested yet, the heads of several African countries have announced placing orders, or received consignments of it.
“Even if therapies are derived from traditional practice and natural, establishing their efficacy and safety through rigorous clinical trials is critical,” the sub-Saharan Africa regional office of the WHO said in the statement.
COVID-19 death toll rises to 1,568 in India; cases climb to 46,433
According to the health ministry data updated in the morning, the highest number of confirmed cases in the country are from Maharashtra (14,541), followed by Gujarat (5,804), Delhi (4,898), Tamil Nadu (3,550), Rajasthan (3,061), Madhya Pradesh (2,942) and Uttar Pradesh (2,766)
Coronavirus health fears outweigh concern for economy: global survey
In Canada, the UK and France, 70% or more of the respondents were in favour of prioritising health concerns. In the United States, where anti-lockdown protests in some cases were encouraged by President Donald Trump, the figure was 66%.