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Over 2.17 lakh Covid-19 cases in new daily record; Maharashtra, UP, Delhi among top contributors: 10 points With Maharashtra, Uttar Pradesh and Delhi contributing the most, India has logged a record 2,17,353 Covid-19 cases and 1,185 deaths due to infection in the past 24 hours. advertisement UPDATED: April 16, 2021 12:15 IST India has registered a record 2,17,353 Covid-19 cases and 1,185 deaths due to infection in the past 24 hours (Reuters photo) India has clocked a record 2,17,353 Covid-19 ca...

India may witness 2,320 daily coronavirus deaths by June first week: study The report, titled "Managing Indias second COVID-19 wave: Urgent steps", underlines the key elements of the second COVID-19 wave. It also suggests measures that should be taken now to help mitigate the spread of infection BusinessToday.In | April 16, 2021 | Updated 12:44 IST The overall Case Fatality Ratio (CFR) since the outset of the coronavirus pandemic in March 2020 has been reported to be around 1.3% India may witn...

How second wave of Covid-19 is different from first in symptoms, spread How second wave of Covid-19 is different from first in symptoms, spread The second wave of Covid-19 pandemic has several minute, yet differentiating characteristics in terms of symptoms, age-profile and spatial distribution. advertisement UPDATED: April 16, 2021 16:18 IST The second wave of Covid-19 pandemic has several minute, yet differentiating characteristics in terms of symptoms, age-profile and spatial distribution. (...

›India may witness 2,320 deaths per day due to Covid by first week of June: Lancet Report India may witness 2,320 deaths per day due to Covid by first week of June: Lancet Report SECTIONS India may witness 2,320 deaths per day due to Covid by first week of June: Lancet ReportBy Share Synopsis The experts have strongly recommended a temporary ban on gatherings of groups larger than 10 for the next two months. Significantly, it did not recommend a blanket national or state lockdown, as oppo...

India’s current Covid-19 vaccine production capacity is insufficient to meet its target of administering five million doses per day, an expert panel underlined on Wednesday, shedding light on shortages flagged by states but denied by the Union health ministry. A 22-member India Task Force has cautioned that monthly vaccine supplies for the inoculation campaign at the current production capacity of 70 to 80 million doses per month would “fall short by half” for the target of 150 million do...

NEW DELHI: : A retired professor of anatomy based in Mumbai in her 70s, Dr Lopa Mehta drafted her “living will”—an advance directive on end of life treatment in 2019. But she is still unable to get it registered despite guidelines that are part of the Supreme Court’s 2018 landmark judgment on passive euthanasia and living will. It turns out that authorities and those keen on registering a living will are both struggling in the absence of standard procedures at the central or state leve...