Page 53 - First Wave News Today

Updated: May 03, 2021 12:52 IST “We are deeply concerned by the critical COVID-19 situation in India, and our hearts go out to you, your loved ones and all the people of India,” says Pfizer Chairman and CEO Albert Bourla Share Article AAA File photo of Pfizer company logo at the company’s headquarters in New York.   | Photo Credit: AP “We are deeply concerned by the critical COVID-19 situation in India, and our hearts go out to you, your loved ones and all the people of India,” says ...

Vinod Khosla. File   | Photo Credit: G.R.N. Somashekar Taking to Twitter, 66-year-old venture capitalist Vinod Khosla said that there was a need to save lives as further delay may end up in more deaths. Indian-origin billionaire businessman Vinod Khosla has pledged $10 million for supplying medical oxygen to hospitals in India amidst an unprecedented second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic in the country. Taking to Twitter, the 66-year-old venture capitalist said that there was a need to save li...

Deputy Chief of Integrated Defence Staff (Medical) Lieutenant General Dr. Madhuri Kanitkar.   | Photo Credit: PTI Lt. Gen. Madhuri Kanitkar, who is the third woman to become a three-star general in the armed forces, is working round the clock to strategise and monitor steps to provide relief to COVID-19 patients Treating the current coronavirus wave like a war, the armed forces have launched operation "CO-JEET" to aid anti-COVID-19 efforts, like strengthening medical infrastructure and oxyge...

On May 1, Toronto announced that 40 per cent of the city’s adult population had received at least one dose of COVID-19 vaccine. This positive public health milestone — signalling progress on vaccinations following a slow and bungled start — lends hope to the notion that urban life in Toronto will rise again as current pandemic restrictions are eventually permitted to diminish. At the outset of the pandemic 13 months ago, I first wrote about the role that cities were playing at the front ...

Reuters Exclusive | Scientists say Centre ignored warnings amid coronavirus surge Updated: Updated: May 01, 2021 17:49 IST The warning about the new variant in early March was issued by the Indian SARS-CoV-2 Genetics Consortium, or INSACOG Share Article AAA Mass cremation of people who died of COVID-19 coronavirus at a cremation ground at Ghazipur, in New Delhi on April 30, 2021.   | Photo Credit: PTI The warning about the new variant in early March was issued by the Indian SARS-CoV-2 Genetic...

As per the committee findings, the deaths did not occur due to shortage of oxygen supply, it said

PIL for CBI probe into politicians procuring Remdesivir mentioned in Delhi HC Updated: Updated: May 01, 2021 14:12 IST The plea questions how politicians are able to procure large stocks of the medicine without having the requisite permission under the Drugs and Cosmetics Act, when the general public was not getting it Share Article Delhi High Court. File   The plea questions how politicians are able to procure large stocks of the medicine without having the requisite permission under the Dru...

Updated: May 01, 2021 16:10 IST Dr. Anthony Fauci said looking at the magnitude of the crisis, India should look at putting together a crisis group that would meet and start getting things organised Share Article AAA With the spread of COVID-19 to traders and staff, many shops remain closed early morning in Srikakulam, Andhra Pradesh.   | Photo Credit: K. Srinivasa Rao Dr. Anthony Fauci said looking at the magnitude of the crisis, India should look at putting together a crisis group that woul...

Even though the second wave of COVID-19 has caused widespread concern in Mysuru, the case fatality rate in the second wave, so far, has been less than in the first wave.An analysis of the number of po

Inquiry ordered after Agra man pleads before policemen for oxygen cylinder Updated: Updated: May 01, 2021 11:51 IST After the video went viral on social media, Superintendent of Police (City) Botre Rohan Pramod denied allegations that police were taking away the oxygen cylinder from him. Share Article Videograb: Twitter/@IYC   After the video went viral on social media, Superintendent of Police (City) Botre Rohan Pramod denied allegations that police were taking away the oxygen cylinder from ...