Jan. 3, 2021 11:49 am ET
NEW DELHI India’s emergency authorization of two Covid-19 vaccines over the weekend kicks off a massive and logistically daunting government inoculation campaign in the world’s second-most-populous nation, where the new coronavirus has killed more than 150,000 and ravaged the economy.
The goal is to vaccinate more than 300 million of the country’s 1.3 billion people by the middle of the year, using an army of doctors, nurses, police officers, soldiers and others to deliver and administer doses across the country, from remote Himalayan villages to megacities like Mumbai.
“It will be the largest vaccination program in the world,” said Giridhara R. Babu, an epidemiologist at the Indian Institute of Public Health in Bangalore. “India has the skills and facilities to make it happen.”
Healthcare sector upgrades infra, taps tech solutions in covid battle
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The pandemic led to a massive rise in the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in diagnosing covid-19 from chest X-rays or CT scans
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While govt was quick to adopt digitization of data, central-govt-run hospitals had to upgrade their infra
The Centre relaxed regulations to allow telemedicine and e-pharmacy platforms offer doctor consultations to avoid crowding at hospitals
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With covid-19 placing unprecedented pressure on India’s creaking healthcare system, the domestic industry has exhibited exemplary resilience in battling the pandemic by bringing about changes to traditional ways of healthcare delivery, besides innovating at a rapid pace to tackle the crisis.
South Asia handled pandemic well, states US-Indian joint study
Wednesday, December 30th 2020
A transcontinental study found that the South Asian region has done well in mounting an appropriate response and has shown a notably lower rate of deaths due to COVID-19 despite a low level of pandemic preparedness.
The paper also talks about the economic damage, and its spillover impact on the health of people in these countries. Photo courtesy: Twitter/@BjpBiplab
In a paper titled Pandemic Preparedness and Response to COVID-19 in South Asian Countries authored by researchers from the Indian Institute of Public Health, the Sustainable Development and Climate Change Department of Philippines, and the Emory University School of Medicine, USA, it said, There was a low level of pandemic preparedness in the South Asian region, despite that the region has a lower rate and proportion of deaths attributed to COVID-19, despite case surges similar to the rest of the world.
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Most countries were unprepared for Covid-19 crisis, but kept mortality rates low, researchers said
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BENGALURU: Despite a low level of pandemic preparedness, the South Asian region has done well in mounting an appropriate response and has shown notably lower rate of deaths due to Covid-19, a study has found. A paper titled Pandemic Preparedness and Response to COVID-19 in South Asian Countries said, There was a low level of pandemic preparedness in the South Asian region, despite that the region has a lower rate and proportion of deaths attributed to COVID-19, despite case surges similar to the rest of the world.