One of the city’s prominent civic and consumer activist M. Sekaran passed away at a private hospital here on Monday. He was 68. He is survived by his wife, a son and a daughter. Mr. Sekaran was presid
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Journalist Siddique Kappan shifted to Mathura from AIIMS despite still being unwell, alleges lawyer
The jail officials confirmed that he has been shifted, but said that the transfer was done after Kappan was discharged from AIIMS. Journalist Siddique Kappan.
The lawyer of jailed journalist Siddique Kappan has alleged that his client has been transferred back from the All India Institute of Medical Sciences Hospital in Delhi to Mathura Jail in Uttar Pradesh, even though he was still unwell,
The Indian Express reported on Sunday.
Mathura Jail Superintendent Shailendra Maitreyi confirmed that Kappan had been brought back to the prison on Thursday night and kept in an isolation ward, reported
Mexican president will livestream getting vaccinated to reassure the country of its safety
From CNN’s Karol Suarez
Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador arrives to give his daily, morning news conference at the presidential palace in Mexico City on Tuesday, April 20. Fernando Llano/AP
Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said at his morning news conference that he will get vaccinated at the end of the conference, and it will be streamed live for the country to watch, reassuring the public of the vaccine’s safety.
“At the end of the presser, once Q&A’s are done, I’ll get vaccinated, here in front of you, so all the country can watch. I’ll get vaccinated because I want to make a call to the elderly, those that aren’t getting the vaccine, for any reason they have. To tell you that we’re sure there’s no risk at all. No danger. No adverse reactions,” he said today.
Johnson & Johnson stands by “positive benefit/risk profile” of its Covid-19 vaccine
From CNN s Jacqueline Howard
A pharmacist volunteer prepares doses of the Johnson and Johnson COVID-19 vaccine during a pop-up clinic in Detroit, Michigan, on April 12. Matthew Hatcher/Getty Images
Johnson & Johnson believes that the benefits of its coronavirus vaccine outweigh the risks, Dr. Paul Stoffels, the company s chief scientific officer, said during an earnings call on Tuesday morning.
Last week, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the US Food and Drug Administration recommended pausing the use of the J&J Covid-19 vaccine over six reported US cases of a rare and severe type of blood clot” out of almost seven million doses administered.