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Top officers from various ministries will participate in the meeting scheduled for 8 pm on Saturday.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi has called a review meeting with top officials over the COVID-19 situation and the ongoing vaccination exercise in the country, government sources said on Saturday. Top officers from various ministries will participate in the meeting scheduled for 8 pm on Saturday. The meeting comes amid a huge surge in COVID-19 cases across the country with reports pouring in from many states about the shortage of hospital facilities and essentials like oxygen supply. The prime minister has been holding meetings with chief ministers and officials on a regular basis to discuss the situation and take measures to curb the pandemic.
Coronavirus | India conducts the highest number of daily tests
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14.95 lakh samples studied; 2.10 lakh fresh cases and 1,070 deaths reported.
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14.95 lakh samples studied; 2.10 lakh fresh cases and 1,070 deaths reported.
As many as 14,95,397 samples were tested in India on Friday (results of which were made available on Saturday), the highest-ever number of tests conducted in a single day in the country. This is the second consecutive day the number of tests is crossing the 14-lakh mark. On September 24, 2020, 14,92,409 tests were carried out, which was the highest until the record was broken on Friday. A total of 26.49 crore samples have been tested in the country since the beginning of the pandemic.
The Sahus from Ganjam lost four bread winners to COVID in 2020.
As a second wave of COVID sweeps through the country, a family in remote Angargaon in Odisha is haunted by the tragedy that the virus visited on them last year.
The Sahu family in Ganjam district had little notice of the disease that was to wipe out an entire generation four brothers who fell victim to the coronavirus, three within days of each other.
In the months that followed the women forged bonds to help each other through the devastating time. Sujata Sahu, Kama Sahu, and Truptimayee Sahu and other women members of the family, however, have little safeguards this time round either. They continuously pray that nothing happens to them this time.
Send COVID-19 vaccines do not stop one from getting infected but instead help in curing the disease faster and reducing its severity, said health and development economist Professor Anup Malani.
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He also said that reinfection can be one of the reasons behind the recent surge in cases in the country.
Malani, a professor at the University of Chicago Law School and the university s Pritzker School of Medicine, has been leading a series of COVID-19 serosurveys in cities and states across India with economic development-focused think-tank IDFC.
In an interview with PTI, Malani said, I fear this is the biggest misunderstanding around India and even in other countries today. Previous infection and vaccines do not stop you from being infected. That was never how immunity worked. Instead, natural and vaccine-acquired immunity is helpful because it helps you clear the infection faster once you are infected.
Covid Is Deadlier in Brazil Than India and No One Knows Why Covid Is Deadlier in Brazil Than India and No One Knows Why When it comes to the scale of infections, the two nations are similarly matched, with cases hovering around 14 million and hospitals from Mumbai to Sao Paulo under increasing pressure as admissions continue to rise.
A health worker in PPE assists a patient at a makeshift Covid-19 quarantine facility.
Facing a sudden surge in coronavirus infections, India is once again home to the world s second-largest outbreak, overtaking Brazil after the latter moved ahead in March. But behind the bleak statistical jockeying is an epidemiological enigma over why the Latin American country has been far more devastated by the pathogen.