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In New Delhi alone, one death from Covid-19 is being reported every four minutes and ambulances around India have been taking the bodies of victims to makeshift crematoriums in parks and parking lots, where bodies burn on rows of funeral pyres.
How mask, early testing and vaccine can reverse Covid-19 curve in India Considering the Covid-19 surge, doctors and health experts have suggested a number of ways to check the spread of the coronavirus pandemic. Here are the ways advertisement Health workers collect nasal swab sample to test for Covid-19 in Vijayawada (Source: PTI) International help has started arriving in India as the Covid-19 situation turned into a severe crisis. A “Help India Defeat Covid-19 campaign” has been launched in the US, which responded late in resuming medical supplies to India. The entire world seems to ...
Joe Biden spoke to PM Modi, pledging US assistance after growing pressure on Washington to help. Highlights Joe Biden pledged his full support to PM Modi The decision would make 60 million vaccine doses available for export The U.S. announced Monday it would share its entire supply of AstraZeneca Plc's Covid-19 vaccine with other countries and readied an aid package for India, as President Joe Biden pivots to ramp up U.S. pandemic assistance to the rest of the world. The decision would make as many as 60 million vaccine doses available for export in coming months, if they clear a federal safe...
April 27, 2021 A functioning vaccination program would appear to be the strongest weapon for halting the unrelenting march of India’s second Covid-19 wave. And yet, it is in a state of total disarray. The government’s failure to effectively negotiate prices and procurement could not only cost lives, but devastate the economy too. On May 1, India will open up its Covid-19 vaccine drive to all people over the age of 18. In this phase, makers of authorized vaccines will be able to directly sell 50% of their stock to state governments and private hospitals. In this new phase, it is up to ...
April 26, 2021 It was a tweet from India’s largest vaccine manufacturer that made the US a stakeholder in India’s fight against the brutal second wave of Covid-19. On April 16, Serum Institute of India CEO Adar Poonawalla tweeted to US president Joe Biden about the latter’s embargo on exporting vaccine raw materials. He didn’t specify what these raw materials were, nor did he say if these were meant for the production of Covishield, the AstraZeneca vaccine his company is manufacturing in India. Poonawalla later clarified in an interview with CNBC-TV18 that these curbs from the US do n...