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US boost for vaccine production in India aimed at neighbours too, says envoy Daniel Smith Nayanima Basu © Provided by The Print New Delhi: The US said Tuesday that its plans to help India boost vaccine production will not only aim to help the country but also its neighbours in the South Asian region. Speaking to a select group of journalists, the US Chargé D’Affaires in Delhi, Daniel Smith, said Washington is concerned about the “human catastrophe” that the second wave ...

Text Size: A+ New Delhi: The Delhi government didn’t account for the oxygen requirements of Covid patients in home isolation, and only took hospital beds into count, and thus got its entire quota calculation wrong amid the second wave, ThePrint has learnt.  Even the Union government did the same thing. A high-powered committee comprising AIIMS director Randeep Guleria, Niti Aayog member V.K. Paul and ICMR DG Balram Bhargava and the directorate general health services, formed to calculate...

No juice in alphonso again, 50% price fall makes second wave worse for Maharashtra farmers Samyak Pandey © Provided by The Print New Delhi: Difficult times have befallen the royalty of the fruit kingdom. Maharashtra farmers cultivating the famed alphonso mangoes, one of the mainstays of the economy of the state’s Konkan region, have been left counting their losses as the second Covid wave exacerbates the impact of a series of knocks suffered since last year. These include th...

Text Size: A+ New Delhi: There seems to be growing resentment among BJP MLAs and leaders in Madhya Pradesh over Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan’s handling of the Covid-19 second wave.  While a number of MLAs have been raising the issue in private, some have started speaking out in public too. Many are demanding that a month-long complete lockdown be imposed in the state.  The state is currently under a “janta curfew”, which bars all but essential services. While some districts ...

Why ‘98% of oximeters in Indian market are Made-in-China’ but buyers don’t care India has been reporting over 3 lakh Covid cases daily over past few days, leading to massive demand for items like pulse oximeters. A+ New Delhi: Pulse oximeters, the bite-sized devices that help monitor your oxygen levels, have emerged as key tools in the Covid pandemic by guiding patients on when they need medical attention (a reading of 94-98 is usually considered normal). In India, Chinese impor...

Modi govt holds out on Beijing offer for Covid help, but no trade bar on private firms Chinese government has offered to help India as it grapples with a devastating second Covid wave, which has seen the country record over 3 lakh cases daily for a week. Nayanima Basu 28 April, 2021 10:18 pm IST Text Size: A+ New Delhi: Indian private companies are allowed to procure critical medical equipment and items from China to aid efforts to check the Covid crisis, but...

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...

How pandemic fatigue led India to squander a chance to beat Covid while it was down Delayed action on shoring up vaccines, and India’s return to pre-pandemic normal with a vengeance have been seen as signs of fatigue as well as a level of complacence. Abantika Ghosh 18 April, 2021 10:04 am IST Text Size: A+ New Delhi: On 13 April, 101 days after the first two Covid-19 vaccines were approved in India, the central government took a decision to waive the requir...

This CSIR sero survey could partly explain why India is in the grip of Covid wave again CSIR conducted 2 follow-up sero surveys on people found to be seropositive in a nationwide survey last year. The one conducted after 6 months revealed an interesting finding. Mohana Basu 15 April, 2021 7:30 am IST Text Size: A+ New Delhi: At least 20 per cent of people found to be seropositive in a survey last year lost their neutralising antibody levels in the subsequent s...

The good news about Covid — it now holds the key to unlocking an HIV vaccine Covid saw researchers world over collaborate at an unprecedented scale & churn out a vast library of information. This data could now help develop a HIV vaccine. Sandhya Ramesh 14 April, 2021 8:18 am IST Text Size: A+ Bengaluru: It was in late 2019 that the first Covid-19 cases were identified in China. It was just about a year and a half ago, but it might as well have been anoth...