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Read more about US will be able to vaccinate all adults by end of May, says Joe Biden on Business Standard. President Joe Biden said Tuesday that the US expects to take delivery of enough coronavirus vaccines for all adult Americans by the end of May, two months earlier than anticipated, as his administration announced that drugmaker Merck & Co. will help

Read more about US National Institute of Health to research on Covid-19 impact on children on Business Standard. About 3.17 million children in the United States have tested positive for COVID-19 since the onset of the pandemic

Read more about First Covid-19 vaccination begins in Africa: World Health Organisation on Business Standard. The first Covid-19 vaccination campaigns in Africa using doses provided by Covax, a global initiative for equitable access to Covid-19 vaccines, began in Ghana and Cote dIvoire, the WHO said

Iranian health authorities issued a warning over a fourth wave of the COVID-19 epidemic, after registering more than 100 deaths in 24 hours for the first time since early January, state TV reported. "The death of 108 patients of Covid-19 in the past 24 hours is sounding the alarm of the fourth wave of the disease," Sima Sadat Lari, spokeswoman for Irans Ministry of Health and Medical Education, said at her daily briefing on Monday, Xinhua news agency reported. The new daily figure takes the ...

Read more about France reports 4,703 new cases of coronavirus, 375 deaths in 24 hours on Business Standard. France has recorded a total of 86,803 coronavirus-related fatalities as of Monday, with 375 new deaths registered in the past 24 hours, according to health authorities

Read more about Brazil health secretaries call for lockdown as coronavirus cases soar on Business Standard. Brazils health secretaries called for lockdowns and curfews in many parts of the country because hospitals are running short of intensive care unit beds as Covid daily kills more than 1,000 people

Read more about World wont finish with Covid-19 by end-2021: World Health Organisation on Business Standard. The World Health Organization (WHO) said that it is "unrealistic" to expect the Covid-19 pandemic to be over by the end of 2021

Updated: Utilise 100% capacities of private hospitals, States/UTs told Share Article AAA A medical staff seen holding a vaccine dose for vaccinating, in New Delhi. File   | Photo Credit: R.V. Moorthy Utilise 100% capacities of private hospitals, States/UTs told The Health Ministry urged States/UTs to utilise 100% capacities of private hospitals functioning as COVID Vaccination Centres (CVCs) and said private hospitals not under the Ayushman Bharat-Pradhan Mantri Jan Aarogya Yojana (AB-PMJAY),...

Central team in Bengaluru to review situation In the wake of the emergence of cluster outbreaks in the city and a few other places, a team of officials from the Union government has asked the State to tighten vigilance at the Kerala and Maharashtra borders and also step up contact tracing. The Central team comprising a Joint Secretary from the Health and Family Welfare Ministry and two doctors arrived in the city on Monday to review the COVID-19 safety precautions and control measures in the ci...

Read more about Global Covid cases top 114 million, death toll at 2.53 min: Johns Hopkins on Business Standard. The total number of global Covid-19 cases has topped 114 million, while the deaths have surged to more than 2.53 million, according to the Johns Hopkins University