There have been talks about whether a six feet distance between a Covid-19 positive patient and a healthy person can prevent the transmission. Since the pandemic struck the world, experts have time and again suggested a series of guidelines and released protocols for a speedy recovery and breaking the chain. Maintaining a gap of six […]
India risks repeating the traumatic mass movement that occurred last year after it enforced one of the world’s toughest national lockdown, eliminating millions of jobs quickly. The lockdown fueled the most disruptive migration in the Indian subcontinent that witnessed scores walking barefoot for days at a stretch only to reach home.
The National Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) on Thursday asked the central government to prioritise testing and vaccination in rural areas as the covid-19 spread is now going to peri-urban and rural places. Dr Sujeet K. Singh, Director NCDC while presenting the epidemiological findings and a granular analysis of the covid-19 trajectory in the States […]
IPE Global and LSE (London School of Economics) Alumni Delhi with MeraDoc, a pro-bono initiative that connects doctors with COVID-19 patients on Wednesday hosted a webinar on ‘best practices and strategies for handling COVID-19’ with leading doctors in Delhi. Renowned panel comprising of Dr Harsh Mahajan (Founder, Mahajan Imaging), Dr Neeraj Jain (Chairman, Dept. of […]
Realising the need for increased public-private sector engagement we are also supporting donor initiatives that will help strengthen the vaccine supply chain through our innovative and first-of-its kind blended finance facility that will allow social and market-based solutions to be introduced and scaled rapidly.
Even as the country grapples with the overwhelming number of new Coronavirus cases everyday, health experts have given a clear warning that there will be a third wave of Coronavirus in India. Speaking at a webinar, Dr Harsh Mahajan, founder of Mahajan Imaging said that there will definitely be a third wave of the virus […]
Amid the ongoing vaccination drive against coronavirus, the Central government on Wednesday released data that shows that both the vaccines—Covaxin and Covishield—are working. As per the data released by the government, among those who received Covaxin, 695 tested positive after the second dose, which is 0.04 percent of the population that received the indigenous vaccine. […]
Bodies piling up at crematoriums and burial grounds across India are sparking concerns that the death toll from a ferocious new Covid-19 wave may be much higher than official records, underplaying the scale of a resurgence that is overwhelming the country’s medical system.
India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi, on Tuesday, said that a lockdown in states should be the last resort. Multiple states in India have announced night curfews and weekend lockdowns in the past few weeks. Delhi has been put under a full lockdown till April 26. But lockdowns might not be enough. Here is why according to […]
India has recently surpassed Brazil as the country with the second-highest number of confirmed Covid-19 cases. With a staggering 200,000 plus cases reported yesterday, the virus is sparing no one – whether young or old, vaccinated or not vaccinated. So, will the arrival of imported vaccines change anything? Going by the history of pandemics, once […]
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi is currently in the middle of a meeting with Union Education Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal and other top officials regarding the fate of the conduction of the upcoming board exams across the country. Students have been pushing for the postponement and cancellation of the CBSE board exams 2021 due to the rise […]
