MASS VACCINATION REQUIRES SUCCESSFUL SUPPLY CHAIN STRATEGIES: PAWANEXH KOHLI

December 5, 2020

Q. What would be the first step basic to start mass vaccination? A. A mass vaccination exercise will require diligent planning and like all successful supply chain strategies, the basic step must be to first identify the destination points. After terminal inoculation centres are known, the strategy will be to...

We should overcome Covid in India by mid-2021: Dr Srinath Reddy

December 5, 2020

New Delhi: The president of the Public Health Foundation of India, Dr K. Srinath Reddy, sat down for an exclusive interview with The Daily Guardian, where he expressed his opinions on mass vaccination as a process and a solution for Covid-19, and said that we would need adaptive strategies and...

OXFORD-ASTRAZENECA VACCINE IS SAFE, SAYS SERUM INSTITUTE

November 28, 2020

In a statement released by AstraZeneca, the company has admitted to its dosing error and said that the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine is safe and effective. Partnered company Serum Institute of India (SII), which is holding trials for the vaccine in India, also said that the vaccine candidates are safe and trials...

We have to watch out for mutations of the virus: Dr Shahid Jameel

November 28, 2020

In an exclusive Interview with The Daily Guardian, Dr Shahid Jameel, Virologist and Director of Trivedi School of Biosciences at Ashoka University, talks about how to judge the efficacy of a Covid-19 vaccine, how India needs to plan for the vaccination drive and whether the novel coronavirus is likely to...

Pfizer seeks emergency use of Covid-19 vaccine

November 21, 2020

Pfizer has announced that its vaccine is 95% effective on the basis of its Phase-3 trials. On Friday, Pfizer said that it is asking US regulators to allow the emergency use of its Covid-19 vaccine. The company announced that they will submit a request to the US Food and Drug...

India to get 400-500 mn vaccine doses by July: Harsh Vardhan

November 21, 2020

Union Health Minister Dr Harsh Vardhan has said that India is set to get 400-500 million vaccines by July 2021. He gave this statement during a virtual programme organised by FICCI FLO. During the programme, National Treasurer Lalita Nijhawan, in an FAQ session, asked the Health Minister about the method...

Feluda test to start in Delhi-NCR after 10 days

November 21, 2020

The fastest and cheapest Covid-19 testing kit, which would give results in less than 40 minutes, was launched on Friday in collaboration with the Apollo group of hospitals and TataMD. Apollo Hospitals will begin with a roll-out of 10,000 tests in NCR from the first week of December. The kit...

Challenges ahead for India in getting Pfizer and Moderna vaccines

November 21, 2020

In an interview with The Daily Guardian, scientific and medical bigwigs Dr Randeep Guleria, Director, AIIMS, Pawanexh Kohli, founding CEO of India’s National Centre for Cold-Chain Development (NCCD), Dr Lalit Kant, former HoD, Epidemiology and Communicable Diseases, and Dr Satyajit Rath, Scientist at IISER, Pune, spoke about the vaccines developed...

DELHI UNDER DOUBLE ATTACK OF COVID-19 AND SEVERE POLLUTION

November 10, 2020

The Delhi Medical Forum (DMF) has shown concern over increasing Covid-19 cases and impact of severe air pollution. The forum has highlighted and stressed on wearing masks that can protect people from the deadly virus. According to Dr B.B. Wadhwa, president, Delhi Medical Association (DMA), “Citizens of Delhi are facing...

IMA OPPOSES GOVT ON INTEGRATION OF MODERN MEDICINE WITH AYUSH

November 10, 2020

The Indian Medical Association (IMA) has opposed the Centre on mixing medical education with Ayurveda, homeopathy, yoga and Unani. “The medical fraternity of our country is highly perturbed by the recent policy changes regarding medical education practice, research, and administration. The radical changes that are being institutionalised will have a...