The Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) Puducherry handed over an ambulance to the Jawaharlal Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education and Research (Jipmer), to assist its COVID-19 relief measur
Postpone AIIMS INI CET 2021, demand aspirants: Here s why
Thousands of aspirants who have registered for INI CET 2021 are demanding the postponement of the postgraduate entrance examination conducted by AIIMS.
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Postpone AIIMS INI CET 2021, demand medical aspirants
Doctors hoping to pursue postgraduate studies in medicine are demanding that the Institutes of National Importance Combined Entrance Test (INI CET 2021) be postponed. On May 27, the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) which conducts the entrance exam for postgraduate medicine, announced new dates for it. INI CET 2021 is now scheduled for June 16.
The exams have been scheduled on very short notice, while they are still working as front-line workers on Covid-19 duties, said AIIMS INI CET 2021 aspirant.
An aspirant tweeted to explain that those who took up the pandemic duty had signed a bond for a period of three months. And they need to inform one month in advance if they plan to leave Covid duty.
Members of India’s Covid Working Group don’t think so. 2 hours ago A health worker prepares to administer a dose of the Covishield, AstraZeneca-Oxford s Covid-19 coronavirus vaccine, at a vaccination centre in Mumbai on April 1. | Punit Paranjpe / AFP
On May 13, when the Indian government increased the duration between two doses of the Covishield vaccine to 12 weeks-16 weeks from eight weeks-six weeks, it cited “real life evidences, particularly from UK”.
The decision, according to members of India’s Covid Working Group that recommended it, was driven by studies that suggested that the first dose of the vaccine, developed by Oxford University and the British-Swedish company AstraZeneca, provided substantial protection.