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India-made nasal vaccines a game changer for children: WHO top scientist Amid concerns that third wave may affect children, and children's vaccines to be widely available may take time, Swaminathan said schools should reopen after teachers are vaccinated and transmission is down COMMENTS WHO's chief scientist, Soumya Swaminathan said many vaccine developers have already started their paediatric trials. The Pfizer vaccine for children above 12 years has been approved. Photo: iStock Soumya Swaminathan, WHO chief scientist, has said on Sunday that India-made nasal vaccines could turn out to be t...

endIndex: (CNN) -- Millions of Indians are living under a mix of locally-imposed coronavirus restrictions, as the central government resists calls from leading medical experts for a nationwide lockdown. The Indian Medical Association earlier this month said a "complete, well-planned, pre-announced national lockdown" for 10 to 15 days would give the country's overstretched health system time to "recoup and replenish both the material and manpower" it needs. And top US coronavirus advisor, Dr. Anthony Fauci on May 9 said of India: "You've got to shut down ... you need to break the chain of tra...

A 22-member expert group has recommended 6-to-10-week lockdowns in the districts hit hardest by the second Covid-19 wave, urging far longer closures than the 14-day “local containment” prescribed by the Centre. The group has called for the closure of all indoor public spaces barring those providing essential services, consultations with local community groups and measures to support the poor and vulnerable who are likely to bear the brunt of the closures. Global observations on lockdowns suggest that such closures need to be in place for 6 to 10 weeks for Covid-19 cases to fall significan...

“It is hard to understand why corrective action was not taken at beginning of second wave,” says Chandrika Bahadur. As India grapples with a massive second wave, Chandrika Bahadur, chair of the Regional Task Force of the Lancet Commission, speaks to The Hindu on why this happened and the way ahead …. India is undergoing a very severe second wave of COVID-19, something that could have been anticipated. What in your view went wrong in terms of anticipation and capacity building? India prepared reasonably well for the pandemic in its early stages. The lockdown gave the medical system time...

Centre lectures states on ways to tackle Covid surge They have been asked to introduce 'intensive action and local containment measures' to restrict intermingling of people and break infection transmission chains The Centre on Sunday asked states with large numbers of daily new Covid-19 cases and high hospital bed occupancy rates to introduce “intensive action and local containment measures” to restrict intermingling of people and break infection transmission chains. The Union health ministry s...