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US boost for vaccine production in India aimed at neighbours too, says envoy Daniel Smith Nayanima Basu © Provided by The Print New Delhi: The US said Tuesday that its plans to help India boost vaccine production will not only aim to help the country but also its neighbours in the South Asian region. Speaking to a select group of journalists, the US Chargé D’Affaires in Delhi, Daniel Smith, said Washington is concerned about the “human catastrophe” that the second wave of Covid-19 has brought in India and is “eager to help” the country boost vaccine production as ...

Text Size: A+ New Delhi: The Delhi government didn’t account for the oxygen requirements of Covid patients in home isolation, and only took hospital beds into count, and thus got its entire quota calculation wrong amid the second wave, ThePrint has learnt.  Even the Union government did the same thing. A high-powered committee comprising AIIMS director Randeep Guleria, Niti Aayog member V.K. Paul and ICMR DG Balram Bhargava and the directorate general health services, formed to calculate the oxygen requirement for states/union territories, devised a formula on the basis of hospital bed...

No juice in alphonso again, 50% price fall makes second wave worse for Maharashtra farmers Samyak Pandey © Provided by The Print New Delhi: Difficult times have befallen the royalty of the fruit kingdom. Maharashtra farmers cultivating the famed alphonso mangoes, one of the mainstays of the economy of the state’s Konkan region, have been left counting their losses as the second Covid wave exacerbates the impact of a series of knocks suffered since last year. These include the 2020 Covid lockdown, which came during the peak alphonso harvesting season, and the Cyclone Nisarg...

Text Size: A+ New Delhi: There seems to be growing resentment among BJP MLAs and leaders in Madhya Pradesh over Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan’s handling of the Covid-19 second wave.  While a number of MLAs have been raising the issue in private, some have started speaking out in public too. Many are demanding that a month-long complete lockdown be imposed in the state.  The state is currently under a “janta curfew”, which bars all but essential services. While some districts had imposed their own restrictions earlier, the state-wide curfew, which began 18 April (initially s...

Why ‘98% of oximeters in Indian market are Made-in-China’ but buyers don’t care India has been reporting over 3 lakh Covid cases daily over past few days, leading to massive demand for items like pulse oximeters. A+ New Delhi: Pulse oximeters, the bite-sized devices that help monitor your oxygen levels, have emerged as key tools in the Covid pandemic by guiding patients on when they need medical attention (a reading of 94-98 is usually considered normal). In India, Chinese imports dominate the pulse oximeter market, with an estimated 98 per cent coming in from across the borde...