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Most states look unlikely to be able to start vaccinations for those above 18 on 1 May given a shortage of vaccine doses and manufactures not committing to sending supplies on time.

India absent at China meet with south Asian neighbours on Covid vaccine supply Chinese Foreign Ministry said the door is wide open for India and expressed deep sympathy over the raging epidemic and extended condolences to its people. PTI 28 April, 2021 9:28 am IST Text Size: A+ Beijing: Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi on Tuesday hosted a virtual meeting of his counterparts from some South Asian countries to deal with the COVID-19 situation during which he pro...

No patent waiver, but here are the alternatives vaccine makers are offering for Covid shots Proposal for intellectual property & and patent rights waiver was first introduced at WTO in 2020 by India and South Africa. It has been opposed by US and Europe. Kairvy Grewal 27 April, 2021 3:25 pm IST Text Size: A+ New Delhi: Members of the World Trade Organization (WTO) met last week and continued their resistance towards India and South Africa’s proposal to waive...

California to send life-saving oxygen supplies to India: Governor India is struggling with a second wave of the pandemic with more than 3,00,000 daily new coronavirus cases being reported for the past few days, and hospitals in several states are reeling under a shortage of medical oxygen and beds. 0 claps The US state of California, which has the highest concentration of Indian-Americans, will send life-saving oxygen supplies to India to deal with the latest surge of COVID-19 cases. India is...

IISER Bhopal team develops affordable oxygen concentrator to meet demand during virus surge The device, which is estimated to cost less than Rs 20,000, can provide 93-95 percent pure oxygen with a flow rate of up to 3 litre/minute, they said. 0 claps Researchers at the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER) in Bhopal have developed an affordable oxygen concentrator to meet the high demand for medical oxygen amid a second wave of the coronavirus pandemic. The device, which i...

Maldives is the new Goa as Indians flock islands to holiday & escape pandemic Indian tourists jumped 50% to just over 44,000 in the first two months of the year, making them 23.3% of the total number of visitors, the most from any single country. Ragini Saxena 7 April, 2021 9:19 am IST Text Size: A+ Mumbai: Indians are jetting off to the Maldives in ever greater numbers to escape the coronavirus pandemic. Visitors from the South Asian nation to the sandy parad...

Water Warriors: Two volunteers working to revive a dead ‘Bowli’ in Udhampur district of J&K In a bizarre situation, a 65-year-old woman, who had been declared dead due to Covid by Jhansi medical college authorities, was found alive a day later. According to reports, the woman Rajkumari Gupta, 65, was declared dead on Friday by the hospital authorities due to Covid. As per reports, Rajkumari had been admitted to the hospital on April 23 and died on the same day. She was having a sore throat,...

Fake oximeter apps stealing personal data and banking details Notwithstanding the tall claims of the authorities, an episode in RML Hospital Delhi -- where a serving doctor in the same hospital had to struggle for four long hours to get a bed for himself -- reflects a worsening Covid situation in the country. Dr. Manish Jangra, who claimed to be media in-charge of the Federation of All India Medical Association (FAIMA) said that he was denied a bed in the hospital where he himself serve as a do...

URL copied Snowfall in high reaches, rain in other parts of Himachal Pradesh (Representational Image) Several high reaches in Himachal Pradesh received snowfall and other areas witnessed rains in the last 24 hours, the Meteorological (MeT) Department said on Friday. Meanwhile, a five-storey building collapsed in Sanjauli locality of Shimla city due to heavy rains in the wee hours on Friday. However, no one was living in the building except the caretakers who had been safely evacuated ...

Coronavirus scare peaks as expert says new mutant is undetectable by RTPCR test On April 22, India witnessed more than 3,34,000 new coronavirus positive cases and 2,247 Covid-related deaths ICMR grants permission for drone trial to deliver Covid vaccines As the second wave of the coronavirus pandemic s wreaking havoc in India, a top expert has warned that the double and triple mutant variants of Covid may not be detectable by the RTPCR tests. The news comes as a real shocker, as the World Healt...