India's rank inched up by just one position to 130 in last year's Doing Business Survey by the World Bank.
The Union Health Ministry on Friday announced that those above the age of 18 years who have completed nine months after the administration of the second dose will be eligible for the precaution dose.
Confirming the Drugs Controller General Of India (DCGI) approval, Serum Institute of India CEO Adar Poonawalla on Tuesday tweeted: '@SerumInstIndia's brand Covovax has completed bridging studies in India and has been granted Emergency Use Authorisation by DCGI for adults and for children above the age of 12. Younger age groups will follow shortly.'
14 more people died of suspected Japanese encephalitis in Gorakhpur district of Uttar Pradesh taking the toll upto 129 on Sunday, a health official has said.
Calling for 'equal recognition of vaccines', COVAX on Thursday urged all governments to recognise as 'fully vaccinated' those people who have received COVID-19 vaccines deemed safe by World Health Organisation, saying any move that restricts travel of people based on the vaccines they have received is 'counter-effective, both in spirit and outcome'.
'Since the Covid virus has a tendency to mutate, we can continue to expect new variants of the virus to emerge and keep circulating and recirculating in the communities.'
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The government said it looks at such studies with due respect but it is yet to examine whether this particular report has a scientific worth or not.
The Indian government and private firms have stepped up efforts to develop a vaccine to halt the spread of COVID-19 which has claimed over 3,700 lives with more than 1,25,000 cases in the country.
American's National Institute of Health will study a cancer care protocol developed by a Kolkata-based father-son homeopath duo.
Experts, however, feel that given the intensity of the second wave and the high single dose coverage, India is in a good position to avoid any drastic wave in the near future.
'The reason why people are underweight and short is because they have not got quality food during their growing years.'
'We have the technical expertise, and international collaborations. We also have robust real-time data. We are a university of pandemic management. If the ministry neglects the role of NCDC, it is the loss of the country'
Modi had released the first batch of eight eight spotted felines -- five females and three males -- from Namibia into a quarantine enclosure at Kuno on his 72nd birthday on September 17 last year.
3 teams have already been dispatched to Port Blair and have started identifiying representatives of various voluntary agencies there who can be trained, said NIMHANS
If that outcome were to happen, the Modi government would be responsible for presiding over a self-inflicted national catastrophe.
Nanaiah claims to possess a medical certificate issued by doctors of NIMHANS, Bangalore.
Raising slogans, members of the BRS, Left parties and some members of the Congress walked out of Lok Sabha in protest as the prime minister was speaking.
The World Health Organisation on Monday warned that the global risk from the Omicron variant is "very high" based on early evidence, saying the mutated coronavirus could lead to surges with "severe consequences."
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