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Patanjali Yogpeeth on Saturday clarified that yoga guru Ramdev’s statement on allopathy was taken “totally out of context” after he claimed that it was a “stupid science”.
Ramdev had said that medicines such as remdesivir and favipiravir – approved by the Drugs Controller General of India for coronavirus treatment – had failed. “Lakhs of patients have died because of allopathic medicines rather than a shortage of oxygen,” he had claimed.
Balkrishna, the general secretary of the Patanjali Yogpeeth, later clarified that the video in which Ramdev can be heard making the statement was truncated, and that the yoga guru has no ill-will towards modern science and its practitioners.
CoWIN portal to have information in 14 languages including Hindi from next week
17 new laboratories would be added to the INSACOG network to enhance the testing of samples.
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Updated: May 17, 2021, 10:59 PM IST
New Delhi: From next week, information on the CoWIN portal will be available in Hindi and 14 regional languages, along with 17 more laboratories that have been added to monitor Covid-19 variants.
According to the statement issued by the government, these decisions were taken during the 26th meeting of the High-Level meeting of Group of Ministers (GoM) held on Monday on Covid-19 under the chairmanship of Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan.
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The Delhi government has requested the Centre to purchase vaccines from the international market for the country rather than states doing themselves, Health Minister Satyendar Jain said on Thursday.
Jain said he raised certain issues during a video conference with Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan. Centre should cap prices of vaccine, Jain said at a press conference. Companies should not be allowed to earn huge profits during such a crisis.
The minister said he urged Vardhan that the vaccine formula should be shared with other companies to ramp up production. We should not get into global tendering for vaccination. Why should states do separate tenders? It will bring a bad name for the country, he said.