As per the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare's guidelines, the next priority group of the elderly population and people with co-morbidities will be vaccinated against COVID-19 from March 1 ...
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Information and Broadcasting Minister Prakash Javadekar on Wednesday (February 24) announced that people above 60 years and above 45 years with co-morbidities will be vaccinated from March 1 in the next phase of doses against coronavirus ...
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On 19 February, Dr Reddy's Laboratories announced that it has initiated the process with the Drugs Controller General of India (DCGI) for Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) of the well-studied human adenoviral vector-based platform vaccine candidate, Sputnik V ...
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Citing the latest sero survey according to which 20 to 25 per cent of the population has been infected with COVID-19, AIIMS Director Dr Randeep Guleria said achieving herd immunity through natural infection is unlikely ...
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Experts have highlighted that the New York variant of coronavirus is more worrisome than the one that is spreading rapidly in California ...
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According to state health department director Dr Archana Patil, COVID-19 norms had been relaxed in good faith, but people have failed the efforts taken earlier by carelessly moving out in public places without taking adequate precautions ...
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"Currently we have vaccines with efficacy of 70 per cent , 80 per cent, 90 per cent so even if there is slight fall in efficacy they will still be effective in preventing the virus from further spreading," said Dr Randeep Guleria, AIIMS Director ...
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According to Rakesh Mishra, CSIR-CCMB director, 7,684 mutations in the SARS-CoV-2 genome were documented from the data analysis of 6,017 genomes sequenced so far ...
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According to AIIMS Director Dr Randeep Guleria, the new strain of SARS-CoV-2 found in Maharashtra could be more transmissible than the existing version strain already floating in the country and could cause re-infections ...
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Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh directed that wearing of face masks and social distancing norms be strictly enforced, with testing to be ramped to 30,000 a day ...
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According to the government, there is no scientific evidence to believe that two newer virus strains are responsible for the surge in COVID-19 cases in some districts of Maharashtra and Kerala ...
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The Central government has directed five states including a Union Territory to expedite the vaccination of Health Care Workers (HCWs) and Front Line Workers (FLWs) so as to confer immunity in the shortest possible time frame in the wake of a rising trend of COVID-19 cases ...
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