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Children can’t be vaccinated currently, trials on below 18 underway: Centre to Delhi HC
The Centre submitted affidavits saying, “The Companies manufacturing COVID-19 vaccination in India have given only “Emergency Use Authorization for vaccinating people of 18 years age and above, therefore, COVID vaccines are not recommended for persons/children less than 18 years of age. This is also because of the fact that the clinical trial group during phase 1, phase 2 and phase 3 did not cover the children below 18 years of age.”
“Epidemiologists have made very clear the third wave of COVID-19 is inevitable in India”
Third wave of COVID-19 is inevitable and is likely to start from September-October, so the country should vaccinate as many people as possible.
”But in the second wave, the virus had a different characteristic which resulted in an indirect attack on lungs in a big way, which resulted in a large number of people demanding oxygen at a very early stage of infection.
Indian panel says global response needed to contain more infectious virus variant
Dubbed the “delta variant” by the World Health Organization, it is estimated to be 50% more transmissible than the coronavirus variant first found in Britain, researchers at the Indian SARS-CoV-2 Genetics Consortium and the National Centre for Disease Control said.
India is leading world in sustainable development and clean energy: PM Modi
“From agriculture to astronomy, disaster management to defence technology, vaccine to virtual reality, India aspires to become self-reliant and empowered in every direction. India is leading world in fields of sustainable development and clean energy,” said PM Modi at the CSIR society meeting.
Lioness in TN zoo dies of coronavirus, 9 others infected
”It is for the first time that the big cats have tested positive for the virus in Tamil Nadu,” the official told PTI.
Decline in water availability due to increase in human, cattle population: Javadekar
”India has only four per cent water share of the world’s fresh rainwater resources. So, there is a basic necessity to save, reuse and repurpose. When India became independent, the availability of water was 5,000 litres per capita now it has become 1,100 litres. There is a basic decline in the availability of water due to human and cattle population growth,” he said.
India’s vaccine inequity worsens as countryside languishes
In 114 of India’s least developed districts – collectively home to about 176 million people – authorities have administered just 23 million doses in total.
That’s the same number of doses as have been administered across nine major cities — New Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata, Chennai, Bengaluru, Hyderabad, Pune, Thane and Nagpur — which combined have half the population.
RBI keeps rates at record low on virus fallout, projects retail inflation at 5.1%
According to Das, upside risks to inflation emanates from persistence of second COVID wave and consequent restrictions on activity on a virtually pan-India basis.
“In such a scenario, insulating prices of essential food items from supply side disruptions will necessitate active monitoring and preparedness for coordinated, calibrated and timely measures by both Centre and state governments to prevent emergence of supply side bottlenecks and increase in retail margins,” the governor said.
ACKO clocks Rs 100 crore from employee group health insurance premium in FY21
Over 70 companies including Virtusa, Swiggy, Razorpay, CRED, Akzo Nobel, Xiaomi, RedFM, ICRA, Grofers, Mygate and Go-MMT offer ACKO’s digital health benefits, it said.
India’s daily new COVID-19 cases decline to 1.32 lakhs, fatalities at 2,713
India’s active caseload further declined to 16,35,993 as active cases decreased by 77,420 in the last 24 hours. The active cases in the country have been less than 2 lakhs since eight successive days. The daily positivity rate stands at 6.38 per cent, remaining below the 10 per cent-mark for 11 consecutive days, while the weekly positivity rate stands at 7.27 per cent.