On World Toilet Day 2020, Union Minister of Jal Shakti Gajendra Singh Shekhawat said India achieved United Nations' sustainable development goal of having toilets in every house by 2030 in 2019 only ...
According to experts, R number helps in understanding how fast and wide is the infection spreading; but what exactly is the R number and why does it matter during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic? ...
Dr Randeep Guleria, the Director of All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), says that despite the downward trend in COVID-19 cases, it is important to sustain this in the coming festive season and winter months ...
While most COVID-19 cases in India remain asymptomatic, here’s what Dr Vincent Rajkumar, editor-in-chief of Blood Cancer Journal thinks about the prevalence of asymptomatic coronavirus patients in India ...
COVAX initiative aims to ensure global access to vaccines against the novel coronavirus by helping buy and distribute vaccination shots fairly around the world ...
The world awaits a safe and effective vaccine that can help put an end to the COVID-19 pandemic, here are the different phases of clinical trials the vaccine has to clear before being available for public use ...
As India’s coronavirus caseload increases and various sero survey results indicate, the bulk of COVID-19 cases in India are asymptomatic and this is making containing the spread a challenge
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As per the experts, there are two pathways to herd immunity - natural infection, when a large number of people have had a disease and recovered; or vaccination, which can provide widespread immunity faster and more reliably ...
According to experts, COVID-19 has been acknowledged as airborne by WHO which implies that such air conditioning systems that are recirculating the indoor air may spread coronavirus among users even when they are practising social distancing ...
The 'R' or the Reproduction Rate is a measure of how many people are infected by one infected person; where a declining R rate means the spread of COVID-19 is reducing and an upward trend in the R rate means the spread is increasing ...
NDTV speaks with director of AIIMS, Dr Randeep Guleria about India's surging covid numbers, dos and don'ts of different coronavirus tests and the long term effect of COVID on recovered patients ...
In the context of a human-borne illness, like COVID-19, a super spreader is an individual who is more likely to infect others, compared with other typically infected people ...
NDTV speaks Dr Rajinder K Dhamija, Head of Neurology Department, Lady Hardinge Medical College to understand if children and young adults are less vulnerable to COVID-19 ...
According to experts, T-cells play an essential role in supporting immune system and are responsible for defending the body against pathogens like the SARS-CoV-2 from re-invading, by identifying and killing the infected cells which suggest that these may also provide guard to COVID-19 survivor from the second attack of the virus ...
Currently, a team from the World Health Organisation (WHO) is in China to initiate modalities for investigating the origins of SARS-CoV-2, the virus behind the COVID-19 pandemic ...
The Global Hunger Index 2020 was launched on October 16 to mark the World Food Day, where India has been ranked 94 out of the 107 assessed countries and the report highlights the crisis of child wasting in the country ...
Failing to breastfeed according to the World Health Organization (WHO) and UNICEF recommendations amounts to real costs in human life, quality of life, and national economic outcomes ...
NGO Smile Foundation has distributed over 1.5 lakh hygiene kits to ensure that along with awareness, vulnerable families also have access to basic hygiene care ...
According to Delhi Health Minister Satyendar Jain, there was heavy pollution due to stubble-burning amid the COVID-19 pandemic and it came as a double attack on the capital ...
As India gears up for World Toilet Day with the theme Sustainable Sanitation and Climate Change, NDTV speaks with Dr Suresh Kumar Rohilla, Programme Director - Water Programme, Centre for Science and Environment to know what is the status of sanitation in India and what the country should focus next
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Rashtriya Swachhata Kendra is an interactive experience centre in New Delhi, where the installations will introduce future generations to the journey of the world's largest behaviour change campaign, the Swachh Bharat Mission ...
Here is what we know about the race to deliver vaccines to help end the coronavirus pandemic that has claimed more than 1.34 million lives worldwide ...
The vaccine developed by Oxford University was 90 per cent effective in preventing COVID-19 when it was administered as a half dose followed by a full dose at least one month apart, according to data from the late-stage trials in Britain and Brazil ...
In a statement, Pfizer and BioNTech said they expect to produce globally up to 50 million vaccine doses in 2020 and up to 1.3 billion doses by the end of 2021 ...
Coronavirus has spread to 191 countries. The total confirmed cases worldwide are 5,86,14,614 and 13,87,107 have died; 1,97,37,336 are active cases and 3,74,90,171 have recovered as on November 23, 2020 at 3:52 am.
India
91,39,865 44059Cases
4,43,486 2524Active
85,62,641 41024Recovered
1,33,738 511Deaths
In India, there are 91,39,865 confirmed cases including 1,33,738 deaths. The number of active cases is 4,43,486 and 85,62,641 have recovered as on November 23, 2020 at 2:30 am.
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