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India-made nasal vaccines a game changer for children: WHO top scientist Amid concerns that third wave may affect children, and childrens vaccines to be widely available may take time, Swaminathan said schools should reopen after teachers are vaccinated and transmission is down COMMENTS WHOs chief scientist, Soumya Swaminathan said many vaccine developers have already started their paediatric trials. The Pfizer vaccine for children above 12 years has been approved. Photo: iStock Soumya Swaminat...

endIndex: (CNN) -- Millions of Indians are living under a mix of locally-imposed coronavirus restrictions, as the central government resists calls from leading medical experts for a nationwide lockdown. The Indian Medical Association earlier this month said a "complete, well-planned, pre-announced national lockdown" for 10 to 15 days would give the countrys overstretched health system time to "recoup and replenish both the material and manpower" it needs. And top US coronavirus advisor, Dr. An...

A 22-member expert group has recommended 6-to-10-week lockdowns in the districts hit hardest by the second Covid-19 wave, urging far longer closures than the 14-day “local containment” prescribed by the Centre. The group has called for the closure of all indoor public spaces barring those providing essential services, consultations with local community groups and measures to support the poor and vulnerable who are likely to bear the brunt of the closures. Global observations on lockdowns su...

“It is hard to understand why corrective action was not taken at beginning of second wave,” says Chandrika Bahadur. As India grapples with a massive second wave, Chandrika Bahadur, chair of the Regional Task Force of the Lancet Commission, speaks to The Hindu on why this happened and the way ahead …. India is undergoing a very severe second wave of COVID-19, something that could have been anticipated. What in your view went wrong in terms of anticipation and capacity building? India prep...

Centre lectures states on ways to tackle Covid surge They have been asked to introduce intensive action and local containment measures to restrict intermingling of people and break infection transmission chains The Centre on Sunday asked states with large numbers of daily new Covid-19 cases and high hospital bed occupancy rates to introduce “intensive action and local containment measures” to res...

India’s Covid vaccination policy just became political and perverse Having different procurement channels and varying prices for vaccines threatens to undermine the inoculation programme. Listen to this article: “The nation’s goal must be to ensure that everyone over the age of 18 years is given the vaccine, regardless of their economic circumstances,” Congress Parliamentary Party chairperson Sonia Gandhi wrote to prime minister Narendra Modi. How could it be right, she ask...

India’s shortage of Covid-19 vaccines that precludes immediate inoculation for all adults is rooted in the Narendra Modi government’s lack of funding for key vaccines under development and evaluation, experts have said. The experts, who have tracked global vaccine efforts, said the Indian government’s lack of investments contrasted with the actions of many countries, including America and Britain, that provided advance funding to vaccine makers and signed purchase pacts with them. The Ce...

The India Task Force has said that with schools being closed for over a year due to the rising Covid-19 cases across India, learning inequities have widened and there has been an adverse impact on kids' mental and psychological well-being.

Open schools only when teachers are vaccinated, Covid norms in place: Lancets India Task Force Among recommendations by the Lancet Covid-19 Commissions India Task Force are a series of suggestions for the road ahead, a financial package and also assessment of the digital divide that the pandemic has exposed. advertisement UPDATED: April 17, 2021 14:34 IST Students undergo thermal scanning at a school in Maharashtras Thane on February 16, 2021 (Photo Credits: PTI) HIGHLIGHTS School openings coin...

Two-month ban on all indoor gatherings to contain spread of Covid-19, recommends Lancets India Task Force In its report, the Lancet Covid-19 Commissions India Task Force has recommended a two-month ban on all indoor public gatherings to break the chain of transmission and contain the spread of Covid-19. advertisement [REPRESENTATIVE IMAGE] File photo of a mural depicting Covid-19 vaccine in Kolkata (Photo Credits: PTI) HIGHLIGHTS "Public health concerns need to override any other considerations...