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Covid pandemic had long-lasting impact on teens’ mental health, substance use: Lancet study
The COVID-19 pandemic has had a long-lasting impact on the mental...
Centre raises concern over gradual increase in Covid positivity rate amid influenza cases
Rajesh Bhushan,Union Health Secretary "While the COVID-19...
Jan Suraksha schemes bring insurance, pension within reach of common man: FM
Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman Under PMJJBY, a cumulative number of 12.76 crore persons have enrolled since inception for life cover, and families of 5,76,121 persons have received claims for Rs 11,522 crore under the scheme. The scheme has proved extremely...
Validity of models, methodology of data collection questionable: India on WHO COVID deaths report
In a report released on Thursday, the WHO estimated that nearly 15 million people were killed either by the coronavirus or by its impact on overwhelmed health systems in the past two years, more than double the official death toll of 6 million According to the WHO...
Nearly 15 million deaths directly or indirectly linked to COVID-19
“The United Nations system is working together to deliver an authoritative assessment of the global toll of lives lost from the pandemic. This work is an important part of UN DESA’s ongoing collaboration with WHO and other partners to improve global mortality...
82 lakh deaths in 2020 in India; 1.48 lakh due to COVID-19: RGI
According to Union health ministry data, provided on Tuesday morning, 5,23,889 people have lost their lives to the virus in the country since early 2020. Registered births, the data said, decreased from 2.48 crore in 2019 to 2.42 crore in 2020, a drop of about 2.4 per...
Centre to host 3-day ‘Health Summit’ at Gujarat’s Kevadia from May 5
In order to boost "Ayush", the Centre has also announced that they will be issuing a separate category of visas for those who want to travel to India for medical reasons and would want to avail of AAYUSH facilities New Delhi: Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya...
China contagion threatens to derail the world’s emerging markets
“Given China’s importance in global supply chains and importance to global growth prospects, further disappointments in the nation’s growth may lead to more contagion risk. We see countries with high trade linkages to China as being the most vulnerable” Johnny Chen...
Nobody can be forced to undergo COVID-19 vaccinations, says Supreme Court
Regarding segregation of vaccine trial data, subject to privacy of individuals, all trials conducted and to be subsequently conducted, all data must be made available to the public without further delay, it said The apex court also directed the Union of India to...
Omicron sub-lineages likely evade vaccines, natural immunity: South African scientist
The BA.4 and BA.5 sub-lineages appear to be more infectious than the earlier BA.2 lineage, which itself was more infectious than the original Omicron variant, Tulio de Oliveira, the head of the institutes JOHANNESBURG: New Omicron sub-lineages, discovered by South...
It may take 12 years for Indian economy to overcome COVID losses: RBI
The output losses for individual years have been worked out to Rs 19.1 lakh crore, Rs 17.1 lakh crore and Rs 16.4 lakh crore for 2020-21, 2021-22 and 2022-23, respectively Mumbai: The Indian economy is likely to take over 12 years to overcome the COVID-19 losses,...
70% who took booster didn’t get Covid in third wave, says study
The study also showed that the third wave affected those aged below 40 the most -- around 45 per cent of them contracted the disease. The researchers also concluded that a long gap after the second dose correlated with a higher chance of infection during the third...