Vaccine manufacturer Bharat Biotech has said the rate at which it was supplying its Covid-19 vaccine to the government was “not sustainable in the long run” and a differential price in the private markets was justified to “offset parts of the costs”. In a detailed statement over the pricing…
The panel which was studying vaccine side-effects has confirmed the death of the person following vaccination against the Covid-19 infection. A 68-year-old man died due to anaphylaxis after taking a coronavirus vaccine. India Today TV has accessed the report of the AEFI or serious adverse events following immunisation.…
Reconciliation of deaths due to Covid-19 in Maharashtra continued for the 28th day with the state recording 2,288 ‘old’ deaths on Sunday. Maharashtra on Sunday recorded 2,771 Covid deaths, including 2,288 ‘old’ deaths, as the reconciliation of deaths by the state government continued for the 28th day. According…
Former Union finance minister P Chidambaram said that PM Modi was the only guest not physically present at the G7 Outreach meeting, highlighting that India is the “most infected and least vaccinated country” against Covid-19. Terming Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s speech at G7 Outreach…
Amid the pandemic situation forcing different boards to cancel or postpone class 10 and 12 examinations, Visva-Bharati University on Thursday announced that the pre-degree exams of its two schools Patha Bhavana and Siksha Satra will be held online from July 5, a notification said. The notification was issued at a time…
India registered 80,834 new Covid-19 cases and 3,303 deaths in the last 24 hours. Active cases declined by 54,531, bringing the active caseload to 10,26,159. Meanwhile, Karnataka will relax its Covid-19 lockdown from June 14 in all districts except 11 which are showing high positivity rate. Night curfew will be in…
For the entire pandemic period, the task force has reported nearly 5.2 million infections in the country of about 146 million people, and 126,000 deaths. Russia’s national coronavirus taskforce on Saturday reported that the country’s tally of daily new infections has risen by nearly 50 per cent over the…
According to a press release by the Health Ministry, a total of 7.4 crore doses were made available across the country, of which 1.85 crore doses were earmarked for private hospitals. At a time when vaccine shortage is being reported across the country, government data has shown that only 17 per cent of doses were…
Twenty-two oxygen generator plants will be operational at nine Delhi hospitals from today in a key step to ramp up production of the gas critical for Covid patients, the state government announced. Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal today cautioned again that chances of a “third wave of the coronavirus pandemic…
The Delta variant is 50% more transmissible than the Alpha variant, first discovered in the UK, experts from the National Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) and the CSIR Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology (IGIB) said. The rapid surge in cases during Delhi’s fourth Covid-19 wave was mainly driven by the…