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India Finally Has Two Vaccines Against Covid-19. But Who Will be Vaccinated First & Who Will Vaccinate?
A health worker participates in a Covid-19 vaccine delivery system trial in Hyderabad, on January 2, 2021. (AP Photo/Mahesh Kumar A)
The priority group is made up of 30 million health care workers, policemen, soldiers and volunteers, and 270 million vulnerable people mostly citizens above the age of 50 and 10 million others with serious comorbidities.
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Indians finally got the first vaccines against Covid-19 on Sunday when the Drugs Controller General of India (DCGI) formally approved Oxford-AstraZeneca and Bharat Biotech’s coronavirus shots. All eyes are now on the mammoth vaccination exercise set to get underway in the country.
The Covid-19 crisis has underlined the need for more budgetary allocation for healthcare
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Covid-19 showed the Indian healthcare system bursting at its seams at the height of the pandemic; patients turned away, doctors and nurses exhausted in their PPE kits.
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Governments the world over were forced to spend more on healthcare in the past year. This kind of allocation might have otherwise taken decades.
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Pandemics have a way of exposing glaring fault lines. When it comes to the healthcare system, it bares every rot in the system, every loose nail, every creaky rafter, every patient in need of aid and every healthcare worker who is overworked. Covid-19 showed the Indian healthcare system bursting at its seams at the height of the pandemic; patients turned away, doctors and nurses exhausted in their PPE kits.
KTR releases Telangana’s 2020 Year of AI success report
January 02, 2021
Marked by AWS $2.77 billion investment plan for data centres
Telangana IT and Industries Minister KT Rama Rao today released the report “Telangana’s Year of AI – 2020 and Beyond” highlighting the various achievements made in the sector during 2020.
A year which saw one of the biggest FDIs wherein Amazon Web Services announced plans to invest about $ 2.77 billion (Rs 20,761 crore) investment in setting up data centres in Hyderabad.
“We commemorated 2020 as the Telangana’s Year of AI last year on January 2, 2020. Exactly one year later, I am elated to share the success of the Year of AI programme, which did not just survive the pandemic, but also thrived in it. The initiative has been a catalyst, which has today catapulted Telangana to the forefront of the AI race to excellence,” the IT Minister said.
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Covid-19 is the Disease X that plunged the world into crisis in 2020.PHOTO: EPA-EFE
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