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Maharashtra on Tuesday recorded 136 fresh coronavirus cases, up from 52 cases a day ago, while four more patients succumbed to the infection in the state, the health department said. With this, the state’s COVID-19 tally rose to 78,74,582, while the death toll increased to 1,47,793, the department said in a bulletin. On Monday, the …
Global healthcare technology company India Medtronic Private Limited has released findings from Medtronic-Economist Impact survey whitepaper titled ‘Asia Pacific’s Healthcare Technologies Ecosystem: Enhancing Start-up and SME success. The whitepaper is written by the Economist Impact and supported by Singapore Economic Development Board (EDB). The findings from the Medtronic-Economist Impact whitepaper were centered around three main areas …
Bharat Biotech on Friday announced a temporary slowing down of production of its COVID-19 vaccine Covaxin across its manufacturing facilities, having completed its supply obligations to procurement agencies and foreseeing a decrease in demand. The company, in a press release, said Bharat Biotech will focus on pending facility maintenance, process and facility optimisation activities for …
The WHO has time and again urged the people and governments across the globe to be careful in lifting Covid curbs as the virus is still very much in circulation. Maria Van Kerkhove, Covid-19 technical lead at the World Health Organisation, has said that the Coronavirus is well on its way to becoming endemic, but …
Though the WHO had earlier this month said that several studies were underway to assess the transmissibility and virulence of Delta-Omicron recombinants, it is best that India errs on the side of caution and stays prepared. The Home Ministry’s decision to stop invoking the provisions of the Disaster Management Act for Covid containment measures should …
Under the Modi government’s UDAN (Ude Desh Ka Aam Naagrik) scheme, as many as 91 lakh citizens of the country were provided air connectivity at reasonable rates through 1.75 lakh flights, the Union minister said. Union Civil Aviation Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia said regular international flight services, which were suspended due to the coronavirus pandemic for …
The vaccines are to be made by Bharat Biotech founder Dr Krishna Ella’s unit in Odisha called Sapigen Biologix Private Limited. In what seems a one-of-its-kind public-private partnership (PPP), an agreement signed on Saturday, March 26th, between the government and vaccine-maker Bharat Biotech’s founder Dr Krishna Ella, to fund and produce two crucial vaccines – …
The sprawling and congested shanty town, said to be Asia’s largest, achieved the distinction on Thursday when no new coronavirus patient was found in Dharavi and at the same time there was no active case in the area, a senior Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) official. Mumbai’s slum colony of Dharavi, once a coronavirus hotspot and …
There were more than 12 million new weekly cases and just under 33,000 deaths, a 23per cent decline in mortality, according to the U.N. health agency’s report on the pandemic issued late Tuesday. The number of new coronavirus cases globally increased by 7per cent in the last week, driven by rising infections in the Western …
Vaccine makers tell Supreme Court it is important to guard against vaccine hesitancy Refusing to disclose their vaccination data, including adverse events following immunisation against Covid-19, vaccine makers Bharat Biotech and Serum Institute of India (SII) on Tuesday told the Supreme Court that such motivated pleas are an “attempt to cause vaccine hesitancy and public …
