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Centre mulling to allow domestic air travel without Covid-negative report post vaccination
While the government is considering allowing domestic air travel without Covid test reports for those who have got both doses of the vaccine, it has opposed a similar measure for international travel.
At a G7 meeting of health ministers on June 4, Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan expressed India’s ”concern and strong opposition” to allow vaccine passports for international travel at this juncture of the pandemic.
Centre conducting study to assess if SARS-CoV2 present in Ganga water
Union Jal Shakti Minister Gajendra Singh Shekhawat last week tweeted, “We are making use of existing technologies, doing regular studies and monitoring the situation closely to prevent contamination of the river water, as there were reports of consigning dead bodies in some parts of Uttar Pradesh and Bihar into river #Ganga.”
Govt issues advisory for rational use of Remdesivir in Covid-19 treatment
In view of the above, Remdesivir is to be used only in select moderate/severe hospitalised COVID-19 patients on supplemental oxygen as it is a reserve drug approved under Emergency Use Authorization only based on limited scientific evidence globally.
India may raise vaccine spending to $6 bln this fiscal year -government sources
The previously budgeted amount was Rs 350 billion .
Part of the increase could be due to higher-than-previous costs for domestically manufactured shots.
New India Assurance Q4 net jumps 91 pc to Rs 241 cr, CR improves by 3.15 % to 113.28%
”FY21 was a challenging year. Apart from Covid-19 pandemic related issues at the beginning as well as towards the end of the year, the industry also witnessed a few catastrophe events as well. However, the company was able to put up a resilient performance. Indian business grew by 6.2 per cent versus industry growth of 5.2 per cent and increased its market share to 14.33 per cent,” Atul Sahai, chairman and managing director, NIA said.
Indian court calls for sweeping reforms to respect LGBT rights
Among his recommendations: police and government officials should be given awareness training to ensure they respect LGBT rights. Medical practitioners who claim to be able to “cure” homosexuality should have their licenses revoked.
Teens rarely hospitalised, but can get severe Covid: US CDC
The data also run counter to claims that influenza is more threatening to children than Covid-19, an argument that has been used to reopen schools and to question the value of vaccines for children. The number of hospitalisations related to Covid-19 among adolescents in the US was about three times as high as hospitalisations linked to influenza over three recent flu seasons, the study found.
India reports 1,00,636 new COVID cases, lowest in last 61 days
The new fatalities pushed the COVID death toll in the country to 3,49,186. As many as 36,63,34,111 samples have been tested in the country up to June 6 including 15,87,589 samples tested on Sunday, informed the Indian Council of Medical Research.
India reports 1,14,460 new COVID-19 cases and 2,677 deaths
This is the lowest number of cases reported in the last two months. On April 5, 96,982 cases were reported. The following day, 1,15,736 new cases were reported.
Second COVID-19 wave not to impact India’s agri sector in any way: Niti Aayog
”COVID-19 cases started spreading in the rural areas in May, with the beginning of May, and agriculture activity in May is bare minimal particularly land-based activities,” he added. ”…it (May) is a peak summer month and no crop is sown, no crop is harvested except little bit vegetables and some off-season crops,” Niti Aayog Member (Agriculture) Ramesh Chand explained.