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After 30 weeks, Covid deaths below 2,000 in past 7 days
There were 1,748 deaths recorded during the current week (December 28-January 3), a drop of 16% from the previous week's toll of 2,087. Fatalities recorded this week were the lowest since the last week of May, more than seven months ago.…
Republic Day parade to be shorter with smaller marching contingents
"The parade will begin from Vijay Chowk, as usual, but will culminate at the National Stadium instead of ending at the Red Fort. So, it will cover a distance of 3.3 km as compared to the normal 8.2 km," said an official. Only around 25,000…
Covid: Both vaccines get final nod, first shots to be of Covishield
The Serum Institute of India’s Covishield is likely to be first shot used in India’s vaccine drive against Covid-19. For Covaxin, the authorisation is in clinical-trial mode, which means that monitoring of recipients will be in…
Private hospitals, companies may get vaccine by March: Serum CEO
SII, once it rolls out the 50-60 million doses of Covishield that forms the first tranche of the govt's order, will give doses to private individuals, private hospitals and companies as early as March, CEO Adar Poonawalla said. The…
Ordinance to junk laws on farmers’ agenda now
Farmer unions will urge the group of ministers to consider taking the ordinance route to repeal the three farm acts, besides flagging the private member's bill introduced in the Lok Sabha in 2018 as a template to meet their second demand on…
Six states with 33% of India’s population have 52% cold-chain points
While the union ministry had earlier said the country has 28,932 cold chain points and 85,622 equipment. State-wise data shows that just six states with only a third of India’s population have more than 52% of the cold chain points…
Vaccine approval process opaque: Experts
Former president of the International Association of Bioethics, Dr Anant Bhan, pointed out that the only other countries to approve vaccines without making the efficacy data public were Russia and China. Dr Gangandeep Kang, noted vaccine…
Serum Institute says to meet local demand for AstraZeneca vaccine for next two months before…
Serum Institute of India (SII), the local maker of the AstraZeneca/Oxford coronavirus vaccine, said on Sunday it intends to concentrate on meeting India's own immediate demand in the next two months before exporting to other interested…
Union minister Sadananda Gowda’s health stable, confirms hospital
Union minister for Chemicals and Fertilizers DV Sadananda Gowda was brought to Aster CMI hospital here at 4:45 PM on Sunday after he collapsed due to low blood sugar in Chitradurga while on his way to Bengaluru from Shivamogga. The minister…
Union minister Sadananda Gowda collapses due to low blood sugar, hospitalised
Union minister D V Sadananda Gowda collapsed due to low blood sugar in Chitradurga while on his way to the city from Shivamogga on Sunday and has been admitted to a hospital here, official sources said. Gowda (67) is currently stable and is…
On eve of talks with farmers, Tomar meets Rajnath to discuss govt strategy to end deadlock
A day before the crucial seventh round of talks between the Centre and protesting farmer unions, agriculture minister Narendra Singh Tomar met defence minister Rajnath Singh on Sunday and discussed the government strategy to resolve the…