The pandemic has worsened in the country.There is a serious rise in cases, Paul told reporters.
India added 96,982 new infections on Tuesday to reach a total of 12.7 million cases. It also registered 446 new deaths taking its toll to 165,547.
So why are cases rising in India? The spurt comes after months of gradual decline, which prompted scientists to ask why cases were dropping when there was no such trend around the world.
Global coronavirus figures are not encouraging either.
Coronavirus-related deaths worldwide crossed 3 million on Tuesday and a global resurgence of COVID-19 infections is challenging vaccination efforts across the globe. Brazil accounts for a quarter of worldwide deaths every day.
Delhi-based firm denies COVID testing kits were defective, holds demonstration
The kits used for the live demo were from batch no CAG D-008 and D-014 which were earlier used for testing the samples collected from the VSSUT students.
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SAMBALPUR: In yet another turn of event in Veer Surendra Sai University of Technology (VSSUT) Burla Covid outbreak, Delhi-based kit manufacturing company, Oscar Medicare Pvt Ltd has claimed that the test kits supplied for detection of Covid-19 were not defective.
To prove its point, the firm conducted a live demo of the kits in the presence of Covid nodal officer of VIMSAR, Burla Sudarshan Pothal and a team of laboratory technicians. The kits used for the live demo were from batch no CAG D-008 and D-014 which were earlier used for testing the samples collected from the VSSUT students.
Additional Chief Secretary of Health department PK Mohapatra said the re-test of the original sample conducted by the RMRC also was found to be negative.
Union Petroleum Minister Dharmendra Pradhan on Monday requested Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan for setting up one of the proposed four National Institute of Virology (NIV) at Bhubaneswar.In a letter to the Health Minister, Pradhan informed .