ANI Authorities in Uttarakhand have cancelled the holy dip on the occasion of Ganga Dussehra in Haridwar on Sunday for devotees due to the prevailing COVID-19 situation in the country. According to Haridwar Police, the district borders will be sealed on June 20, and devotees coming from other states will not be allowed. Read more …
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Former Kerala Health Minister KK Shailaja, aka Shailaja Teacher, was awarded this year’s Central European University (CEU) Open Society Prize. The prestigious international honour given by CEU was awarded at a ceremony in Vienna on Friday. The annual award is given to persons of exceptional distinction who serve the ideals of an open society. To all the students who are …
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The newly identified strain of the highly transmissible and infectious delta variant of COVID-19 named as ‘Delta Plus’ or ‘AY.1’ variant is not yet classified as a Variant of Concern (VOC). The new Delta plus variant has been formed due to a mutation in the Delta or B.1.617.2 variant, first identified in India and one of the drivers of the …
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The number of daily COVID-19 cases in India continues to remain below the 70,000 mark as the second wave of the pandemic seems to be subsiding. In the past 24 hours more than 1,300 deaths were also reported from across the country. Bharat Biotech And World Health Organisation’s Pre-submission Meeting On June 23rd Hyderabad-based Bharat Biotech and World Health Organisation’s …
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Drugs such as ivermectin, hydroxychloroquine, favipiravir and antibiotics like doxycycline and azithromycin prescribed for adult COVID-19 patients have not been recommended for treating children, according to a government guideline issued on Wednesday. In anticipation of likely intermittent surges in the number of COVID-19 cases, the government has come out with guidelines for operationalising Covid-care services for children. The recommendations include …
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In a worrying development, the deadly Delta variant of COVID-19, has mutated into a version that could possibly be resistant to monoclonal antibodies cocktail used in COVID-19 treatment, The Times of India has reported. The Delta variant (B.1.617.2) of SARS-CoV-2 was first detected in India in October 2020 and has been classified by the World Health Organization (WHO) as a …
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When the government announced the lockdown, 23-year-old Tukaram Gaikwad from Maharashtra’s Osmanabad district had to travel back home to his village, Lakhi — situated around 100 km away from the Tuljapur campus of the Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS), where he is a final-year Masters student in Social Work and Rural Development. With all the lectures shifted online, he …
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Though the Centre has suggested that there isn’t any evidence that the third wave of COVID will affect children, it has planned to noculate 80 per cent of the 130 million children aged between 12-18 years. For this, the government needs to procure at least 210 million doses of a two-dose vaccine. There appears to be no substantial evidence to …
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Maharashtra capital Mumbai is slowly getting out of the grip of COVID-19 that has ravaged the city for well over a year now. But as the second wave of COVID-19 is subsiding in Mumbai, which is coinciding with the onset of the annual monsoon season. AFP The heavy rains also bring its own set of seasonal infections and this year …
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Continuing with the trend, the number of new COVID-19 infections remained below the one lakh mark on Thursday. In the past 24 hours, India recorded over 91,000 new COVID-19 cases, with Tamil Nadu registering the highest rise in India. Tamil Nadu added more than 16,000 new infections to its tally on Thursday. No Need To Vaccinate People Who Had COVID-19 …
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