When, how and where will you get Covid-19 vaccine? All you need to know about registration, tracking
When, how and where will you get Covid-19 vaccine? All you need to know about registration, tracking, more
India s drugs regulator DCGI on Sunday gave final emergency-use approval for two coronavirus vaccines. As the move paves a way for rollouts of at least two Covid-19 vaccines in India in the coming days, here is all you need to know about the vaccination process.
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UPDATED: January 4, 2021 00:14 IST
Covid-19 vaccines will be offered first to healthcare and other frontline workers. (Illustration by Bandeep Singh)
Geneva, Jan 1: The World Health Organisation says it has cleared the Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus vaccine for emergency use, meaning poorer countries may soon get access to the shot already available in Europe and North America.
Goa BJP govt gives nod for ganja cultivation, draws flak from opposition
Agencies
December 30, 2020
Panaji, Dec 30: The law department of the Goa government has given approval to a proposal to allow cultivation of marijuana for medicinal purposes, a minister has said, a move which drew flak from opposition parties.
Law Minister Nilesh Cabral told reporters on Tuesday evening that his department has vetted and cleared the proposal to allow cultivation of marijuana (ganja or grass) for medicinal purposes in the tourist state.
The proposal was moved by the health department, he said.
We have cleared the file from legal perspective. Controlled farming of marijuana for medicinal purposes would be permitted, he said.
Udupi: PU student attacked by swarm of bees; rescued and hospitalised
coastaldigest.com news network
December 29, 2020
Udupi, Dec 29: A teenage boy was critically injured when a swarm of honeybees attacked him at Chitpadi in Udupi this morning.
The injured has been identified as Pundalika, hailing from Bagalkot. He is a student of first year Pre University.
It is learnt that Pundalika was in dire straits after being attacked by the honeybees. A social worker, Ansar Ahmed, immediately responded to his needs and helped to admit him into the hospital.
Currently he is undergoing treatment at the government hospital at Ajjarkad. He is said to be out of danger.
Foresee short extension of temporary suspension of UK flights into India: Aviation Minister
Agencies
December 29, 2020
New Delhi, Dec 29: Union Civil Aviation Minister Hardeep Singh Puri on Tuesday said that he foresees a short extension of the suspension of flights from the United Kingdom to contain the spread of the new variant of coronavirus that was first detected in that country.
This comes a day after six people who had recently returned to India from the UK were found positive for the new mutant strain of the coronavirus. I foresee a short extension on this temporary suspension. I do not see the extension to be long or indefinite, Puri said while addressing media at an annual press conference on Civil Aviation.