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Delhi Govt All Set For Covid-19 Vaccination Roll-Out: Satyendar Jain Jain on Saturday had tweeted that the positivity rate had been below one per cent for the past 11 days PTI 03 January 2021 PTI Photo/Atul Yadav outlookindia.com 2021-01-03T21:01:20+05:30 Delhi Health Minister Satyendar Jain on Sunday welcomed the approval given for the emergency use of two Covid-19 vaccines and asserted that the city government is all set for the vaccination roll-out as soon as any of...

Updated Jan 03, 2021 | 13:22 IST The drug regulator has given a conditional nod to SIIs Covishield and Bharat Biotechs Covaxin. Permission was also granted for Cadila Healthcares Phase 3 trials. Representational Image&nbsp Drug Regulator accepts SECs recommendations, gives conditional nod for Covishield, Covaxin PM hails the nod for SII & Bharat Biotech vaccines as a decisive turning point in fight against COVID 2021 promises to the year of vaccination in India and...

COVAXINs approval is for emergency situation, not emergency use authorisation, says AIIMS Director ANI | Updated: Jan 03, 2021 23:56 IST By Joymala Bagchi New Delhi [India], January 3 (ANI): All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) director Dr Randeep Guleria on Sunday clarified that approval of COVAXIN, Bharat Biotechs COVID-19 vaccine is for an emergency situation and not emergency use authorisation which is given to Serum Institute of Indias COVIS...

Volunteers wearing face masks as a precaution against the coronavirus clear the debris left over by tourists at Maidan, the citys largest open space in Kolkata, India, Sunday, Jan. 3, 2021. (AP Photo/Bikas Das) A roadside barber wearing mask as a precaution against the coronavirus gives hair cut to a man as others wait for their turn in Mumbai, India, Sunday, Jan. 3, 2021. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool) Previous Next Sunday, January 03, 2021 11:50 am India OKs AstraZeneca and ...

The Latest: Japan’s prime minister weighs state of emergency By The Associated Press Share TOKYO — Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga said Monday vaccine approval was being speeded up and border controls beefed up to curb the spread of the coronavirus, and he promised to consider declaring a state of emergency. Tokyo Gov. Yuriko Koike and the governors of Saitama, Chiba and Kanagawa had asked the national government Saturday to declare the emergency after the capital saw a daily record...

COVID death toll goes over 350,000 in United States Magda Maldonado, owner of Continental Funeral Home in Los Angeles, poses in her mortuary on Dec. 30, 2020. Southern California funeral homes are turning away bereaved families because theyre running out of space for all the bodies piling up during an unr Over 20 million Americans infected. Posted: Jan 3, 2021 11:09 AM Posted By: Mike Bunge BALTIMORE, M.D. — The COVID-19 death toll in the United States has surpassed 350,000 as experts antici...

RingTrue with Yemi Adebowale, 08054699539 (text only); yemi.adebowale@thisdaylive.com Usman Dan Fodio, the great Islamic preacher and founder of the Sokoto Caliphate, proclaims that a society can live with unbelief, but that no society can survive with injustice. This applies to virtually all conflicts in the world; the exceptions will be the few ones triggered by religion extremism and greed. It is this injustice that the Bishop of Sokoto Catholic Diocese, Matthew Hassan Kukah has spent his en...

Indias April-November Fiscal Deficit More Than 135% of Full-Year Target The lockdown imposed to curb the spread of coronavirus had significantly impacted business activities and, in turn, contributed to sluggish revenue realisation. Photo: rupixen/Unsplash Economy01/Jan/2021 New Delhi: The Union government’s fiscal deficit soared to Rs 10.75 lakh crore, or 135.1% of the 2020-21 Budget Estimates (BE), at the end of November 2020, mainly on account of low realisation of revenue due to disrupti...

Farmer leaders said action on the agreements would help to boost confidence for the talks ahead. However, they also emphasised that these are minor issues in comparison to the unresolved demands to repeal three contentious farm reform laws and provide a legal guarantee for MSP. India’s fiscal deficit shot up to 135.1% of the Budget target of nearly ₹8 lakh crore for 2020-21, in the 8 months from April 2020 to November 2020, as per data released by the Controller General of Accounts on Thurs...

Serum-Oxfords Covishield vaccine gets panel nod for emergency use; DCGI next CDSCOs expert panel has recommended the Serum Institute of Indias Covishield COVID-19 vaccine for emergency use authorisation to DCGI BusinessToday.In | January 1, 2021 | Updated 18:02 IST Covishield would be the first vaccine to be given the go-ahead by drug regulators in India The subject expert committee of Central Drugs Standard Control Organization (CDSCO) has recommended Oxford-AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine, Covi...