Even as India readies for the mass immunisation drive, there has been a steady decline in the daily number of cases and deaths, since the peak of mid-September. Less than 300 daily coronavirus deaths were recorded in the country for the last 16 days with the national recovery rate improving to 96.42 per cent, according to data from the union health ministry. Given that we will never know the true numbers during the pandemic or even after it, the trajectory is important and it has been on the downward slope, which leads to some pressing questions - Is the worst of the pandemic over? Are the numbers for real or there are other reasons like less testing or non-reporting of cases? Can we say that we are safe now? Will the virus pick up pace and spread again in the future, etc.
Covid strain that can ‘fool’ three antibodies found in Mumbai Metropolitan Region
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“This is one of three mutations (K417N, E484K and N501Y) seen in the South African lineage,” said Dr Nikhil Patkar, associate professor in haematopathology at Tata Memorial Centre’s Kharghar unit called ACTREC.
Called the E484K mutation, it is linked to the South African strain.
(This story originally appeared in on Jan 10, 2021)Mumbai: While the search for the highly contagious UK mutation of Covid-19 continues in India, researchers from Tata Memorial Centre in Kharghar have found three patients from the Mumbai Metropolitan Region (outside Mumbai) with an equally worrying mutation. Called the E484K mutation, it is linked to the South African strain.
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January 09, 2021 22:19 IST
With the daily cases coming down, many people who would have volunteered would not see the urgency now as earlier
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The alternative: Vaccine manufacturers can carry out phase-3 trials outside India and efficacy results from such trials would be accepted by the Indian regulator for vaccine approval.
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With the daily cases coming down, many people who would have volunteered would not see the urgency now as earlier
On January 1, Pune-based Serum Institute’s Covishield vaccine was granted permission for restricted use, while Bharat Biotech’s Covaxin got a similar approval the next day with certain other riders. With two vaccines now being greenlighted for restricted use, the four high-risk priority groups, beginning with frontline health-care workers, will soon begin getting vaccinated. Nearly 300 million people belonging to the four priority groups are to be vaccinated with either of th
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“We don’t know what your commission is doing. People in Delhi are not satisfied with your work. We are also not satisfied”.
These remarks were made by a Supreme Court Bench headed by Chief Justice of India SA Bobde on 17th December. That was six weeks after the ordinance on “Commission for Air Quality Management (CAQM) in National Capital Region and Adjoining Areas Ordinance 2020” was promulgated on 29th October . The super commission subsumed practically every other law and
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The Uttar Pradesh authorities on Sunday closed the Kanpur Zoological Park after a number of birds were found dead there and two samples tested positive for bird flu.
Over 1,200 birds were found dead across the country on Saturday, including 900 in a poultry farm in Maharashtra, with the Centre saying the outbreak of avian influenza has been reported in Uttar Pradesh, taking the number of affected states to nine.