AFTER ‘GO CORONA GO’, ATHAWALE HAS NEW SLOGAN TO BEAT UK COVID STRAIN

28 Dec 2020

Pune: Union Minister Ramdas Athawale on Sunday said that his earlier slogan “Go Corona, Corona Go” was effective as the Covid-19 situation in the country was improving and has now coined a new slogan “No Corona, Corona No” in an attempt to combat the new more infectious strain of coronavirus,...

India records 18k new Covid cases, lowest daily rise in nearly six months

28 Dec 2020

India reported 18,574 new Covid-19 infections, taking the total count to 10,188,392. The death toll mounted to 147,659 with 280 new fatalities. Total discharged cases stand at 9,760,848. Looking at the individual tally of some worst-affected states due to coronavirus The Covid-19 tally in Maharashtra rose to 19,19,550 with the...

OXFORD VACCINE SHOULD BE EFFECTIVE AGAINST NEW STRAIN: ASTRAZENECA CEO

28 Dec 2020

New Delhi: British pharmaceutical AstraZeneca and the University of Oxford’s Covid-19 vaccine has achieved a “winning formula” for efficacy, Pascal Soriot, CEO of the company said in an interview with a British newspaper. He also added that the vaccine should be effective against the new mutant strain of Covid-19 found...

WITH 24K NEW CASES, INDIA’S COVID TALLY REACHES 1.1 CRORE MARK

25 Dec 2020

New Delhi: India’s Covid-19 caseload rose to 1,01,23,778 with 24,712 new infections being reported in a day, while the number of people who have recuperated from the disease surged to 96.93 lakh on Thursday. The death count increased to 1,46,756 with 312 new fatalities. The number of people who have...

Andhra and Telangana prepared for Covid-19 vaccine distribution

24 Dec 2020

Hyderabad: Andhra Pradesh and Telangana have set up committees and made necessary arrangements for Covid-19 vaccine distribution. The Telangana Health Department has been put on high alert over the new strain of coronavirus that was detected in the United Kingdom. The Medical Education Secretary Ramesh Reddy told The Daily Guardian,...

Covid-recovered patients in Gujarat find new problem

24 Dec 2020

Ahmedabad: Coronavirus cases in Gujarat are now on the decline, leading to as many as 80% of beds in private Covid hospitals becoming vacant. However, many patients who have recovered from Covid-19 in the state have reported a disease called Guillain-Barre syndrome after mucosal mycosis. Ten such cases have been...

TERRORIST OUTFITS USING COVID-19 TO REINFORCE POWER AND INFLUENCE: INTERPOL

23 Dec 2020

Terrorist groups are using the Coronavirus pandemic to reinforce power and influence, international criminal police organisation Interpol said on Tuesday. After Interpol released a report, intelligence and security establishments in India are on their toes to check the activities of terrorist groups. Interpol released a report which focuses on impact...

PUNJAB ISSUES FRESH SOP FOR NEW COVID-19 STRAIN DETECTED IN UK

23 Dec 2020

CHANDIGARH: The Punjab government on Tuesday issued the Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) for epidemiological surveillance and response in the context of new variant SARS-CoV-2 virus detected in United Kingdom. Giving details Punjab Health Minister Balbir Singh Sidhu said that instructions have been issued to all Deputy Commissioners and Civil Surgeons...

Andhra, Telangana to trace, test, quarantine UK returnees

23 Dec 2020

Hyderabad: Following the news of a new strain of the Covid-19 virus surfacing in the United Kingdom, the Government of India, through the Secretary of Health, had issued a letter on Monday. Adhering to that letter, the Andhra Pradesh and Telangana governments have issued a Covid order which specifies that...

ANTIBODIES WILL NOT SAFEGUARD YOU AGAINST COVID RE-INFECTION

22 Dec 2020

About ten months after the first case of Covid-19 was confirmed in Kasaragod, Kerala on 3 February 2020, we still have a lot to learn about the novel coronavirus. While our country’s tally of Covid-19 currently stands at 9.88 million, the concerns about re-infection loom large. Much research is required...