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India fast-tracks emergency use of foreign-made Covid-19 vaccines

No need for prior local clinical trials for vaccines cleared by regulators

Updated On : 14 Apr 2021 | 1:40 AM IST

Govt slams states: No Covid-19 vaccine shortage, only poor planning

Rajesh Bhushan, Union health secretary, said that there were over 20 million doses in the pipeline to be distributed to states

Updated On : 14 Apr 2021 | 12:58 AM IST

DATA STORY: India adds 161,736 Covid cases in a day, reports 879 deaths

India has so far vaccinated 108,533,085 people. That is 792.82 per cent of its total caseload, and 7.8049 per cent of its population

Updated On : 13 Apr 2021 | 10:02 PM IST

Covid LIVE: Not happy about curbs, but have to break the chain, says Uddhav

Coronavirus live updates: Maharashtra, UP, Delhi, Chhattisgarh, Karnataka, Kerala, Tamil Nadu, MP, Gujarat, Rajasthan- have shown steep rise in daily Covid-19 cases. Stay tuned for corona-related news

Updated On : 13 Apr 2021 | 9:16 PM IST

Delhi records highest daily spike of 13,468 Covid-19 cases, 81 more die

Delhi on Tuesday recorded 13,468 COVID-19 cases, the biggest single-day jump so far, while 81 more people succumbed to the disease, according to data shared by the health department.

Updated On : 13 Apr 2021 | 9:07 PM IST

Covid-19 vaccines reduce chances of severe infection, mortality: ICMR

COVID-19 vaccines reduce the chances of developing severe infection and mortality, ICMRChief Balram Bhargava said on Tuesday. Responding to a question about people contracting the coronavirus infection even after taking both doses of COVID vaccine, he said these are "disease-modifying" vaccines and there is an 85 percent reduction in hospitalisation after vaccination which is well established internationally. "These vaccines are disease-modifying. After two doses are administered, the antibodies develop.The COVID-19 vaccines reduce the chances of developing severe infection and death due to the disease," the ICMR Director General said. The Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) is the country's apex health research body. Currently, two vaccines -- Covaxin by Bharat Biotech and Oxford-AstraZeneca's Covishield manufactured by Serum Institute of India (SII) -- are being used for inoculation in India. India's drug regulator has also granted permission for the restricted emergency u

Updated On : 13 Apr 2021 | 8:26 PM IST

Covid-19 second wave worrying; states need to ramp up RT-PCR tests: Centre

Noting that India's COVID-19 cases trajectory in the second wave is "worrying", the Centre said states like Maharashtra, Chhattisgarh, Uttar Pradesh and Gujarat need to ramp up RT-PCR tests.

Updated On : 13 Apr 2021 | 8:13 PM IST

Problem not of coronavirus vaccine shortage but of planning: Govt

Over 1.67 crore COVID-19 vaccine doses are still available with states and UTs, the Centre said on Tuesday, underlining that the problem is not of vaccine shortage but of better planning.

Updated On : 13 Apr 2021 | 7:51 PM IST

Centre says problem is not of Covid vaccine shortage but of planning

'On one hand, we have states like Kerala where there is zero wastage (of vaccine) and on the other hand, we have several other states where there still is 8-9% of wastage,' says Union Health Secretary

Updated On : 13 Apr 2021 | 6:42 PM IST

A jab at coronavirus vaccine diplomacy: How Russia won the battle

India's Subject Expert Committee cleared Sputnik V for emergency use against Covid-19, making it the third approved vaccine against Covid-19 in the country

Updated On : 13 Apr 2021 | 6:10 AM IST

Convert some govt, private hospitals into Covid-19 facilities: Kejriwal

Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Monday directed officials to convert some government and private hospitals into dedicated COVID-19 facilities to cope with the alarming rise in the number of cases in the national capital. Terming the COVID-19 situation in Delhi "very serious", the chief minister also asked the officials to request the Centre to increase the number of beds for COVID-19 patients in its hospitals in the city, an official statement said. Kejriwal said the number of beds in government and private hospitals must be at par with that in November last year, when the COVID-19 pandemic was at its peak. He also directed the officials to convert some private and government hospitals into dedicated COVID-19 facilities, according to the statement. He added that the objective of his government is to provide the best COVID-19 treatment facilities to the people of Delhi. "We will further request the central government to increase COVID beds in central government hospitals as

Updated On : 12 Apr 2021 | 11:37 PM IST

Kerala sees 5,692 fresh Covid-19 cases, records 11 deaths today

Kerala reported 5,692 fresh COVID-19 cases, including one from the U.K., and 11 related deaths on Monday, health minister K K Shailaja said.

Updated On : 12 Apr 2021 | 9:43 PM IST

West Bengal records 4,511 fresh Covid-19 cases, highest one-day spike

West Bengal on Monday registered 4,511 fresh COVID-19 cases, the highest single-day spike since the pandemic started last year, the state health department said. Kolkata also set a record of 1,115 new cases. The state also reported this year's highest COVID-19 fatalities at 14 on Monday, pushing the death toll to 10,414. The coronavirus caseload rose to 6,19,407, the department said in a bulletin. It said that 1,947 people recovered from the disease in the last 24 hours. The number of active cases currently is 26,531. In the last 24 hours, 37,116 samples have been tested for COVID-19 in the state.