9 MORE DETECTED WITH UK COVID STRAIN, TOTAL CASES IN INDIA RISE TO 38

05 Jan 2021

Nine more Covid patients have been detected with the UK Covid strain, taking the total number of such cases to 38 in the country, the Union Health Ministry said on Monday. All the nine latest additions have been reported from a single laboratory in the national capital, which accounts for...

Centre must provide free Covid vaccine to all without discrimination: Balbir Sidhu

04 Jan 2021

Health and family welfare minister of Punjab, Balbir Singh Sidhu on Sunday said that Central Government should provide free of cost Corona vaccine to the state in a stipulated time. Talking to media persons he said that stringent measures were taken from time to time with view to control the...

INDIA RECORDS 18K CASES, DELHI’S DAILY COVID TALLY FALLS BELOW 500 FOR FIRST TIME IN MONTHS

04 Jan 2021

NEW DELHI: With only 424 fresh infections reported in Delhi in the last 24 hours, for the first time in the last seven and a half months, the number of Covid-19 cases has gone below 500 in the national capital. As per the latest health bulletin, there were 424 positive...

A DECISIVE TURNING POINT: PM MODI ON VACCINE APPROVAL

04 Jan 2021

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday lauded scientists of the country after the Drug Controller General of India (DCGI) gave approval to Serum Institute of India’s ‘Covishield’ vaccine and Bharat Biotech’s ‘Covaxin’ for emergency use, paving the way for its roll-out and administration to millions. “A decisive turning point to...

INDIA’S WAIT OVER, DRUG REGULATOR CALLS COVID-19 VACCINES 110% SAFE

04 Jan 2021

India’s central drug authority, Drugs Controller General of India (DCGI), on Sunday announced the formal approval for the Covid-19 vaccines of Oxford-AstraZeneca, manufactured by the Serum Institute, and Bharat Biotech, saying they would be administered in two dosages each. Drugs Controller General of India V.G. Somani said that the two...

PROSPECTIVE SURVEILLANCE: OUR WEAPON TO TAME MUTANT COVID STRAIN

02 Jan 2021

The emergence of a new mutant of SARS CoV-2 virus, B.1.1.7, in the UK with suspected increased propensity for transmission by 70% has spurred increased genomic surveillance for Covid-19. Genomic surveillance enables rapid investigation of the evolution and transmission of the virus at the local, regional and international levels. We...

India’s Covid-19 recovery rate reaches 96.08%

02 Jan 2021

India recorded 21,822 fresh infections in the last 24 hours, 6% higher than on Thursday. India’s tally has surged to 1,02,66,674, and 1.48 lakh deaths linked to the disease have been recorded so far. The number of people who have recuperated from the disease surged to 98,83,461 pushing the national...

Daily Covid recoveries outnumber new cases for 33 days in a row

01 Jan 2021

Daily recoveries of Covid-19 have outnumbered daily new cases in India for the last 33 days successively. The national recovery rate has now crossed 96 percent. India›s caseload currently stands at 10,281,229, with 21,957 fresh Covid-19 cases. The country›s death toll has mounted to 148,932. With 1,932,112 cases, Maharashtra has...

BOOKS IN THE TIME OF CORONA

31 Dec 2020

Let’s start with the good news first. Science publishing, a notoriously slow field, has boomed during the current pandemic. Even compared to the SARS epidemic a few years ago, this time the volume and frequency of scientific publications have risen manifold. But, of course, that is not what we mean...

Punjab to send 5% of total positive samples daily to premier institutes to check new mutated strain

31 Dec 2020

CHANDIGARH: Principal Secretary Medical Education and Research DK Tiwari on Wednesday said that in order to check the mutation of new mutated strain (N501Y) SARS-CoV-2 virus in Punjab, the state government has decided to send 5% positive samples per week to Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology (IGIB), Delhi and...