The recommendation holds true for both indoors and outdoors, the CDC said.
commercial airlines and air navigation service providers have to carry out random drug tests on at least 10 per cent of their flight crew and air traffic controllers every year.
Jamaica's twice Olympic 200 metres champion Veronica Campbell-Brown was suspended by her national federation on Tuesday following a positive test for a banned diuretic at a meeting last month.
Dr Murthy, 43, a former United States Surgeon General, along with two other co-chairs -- Dr David Kessler and Dr Marcella Nunez-Smith -- would lead a team of leading public health experts who will advise Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris on the deadly virus.
The WHO on Tuesday issued a product alert over contaminated syrup by an Indian manufacturer, warning that it is unsafe for use, especially in children, and may result in serious injury or death.
'If he has not achieved 'Congress mukt Bharat' even now, the question of his creating a 'DMK mukt Tamil Nadu' does not arise,' points out N Sathiya Moorthy.
Biden previously told Jake Tapper of CNN that he would be "happy to" take the COVID-19 vaccine once US infectious disease expert Anthony Fauci said it was safe and he would get the injection in a public setting to prove it.
According to The New York Times, this move means that many highly vulnerable people will begin receiving the vaccine within days. It further called the authorisation by the FDA as a 'historic turning point' as the US death toll from the Wuhan-originated virus nears 300,000.
Biden, 'plotting an ambitious presidency that would begin amid twin health and economic crises, is leaning on veteran advisers with high-level governmental experience rather than outsiders and ideological rivals to help guide him on subjects including the coronavirus pandemic and the country's diminished standing in the world', a report in The New York Times said.
Illustrious international thinkers met at the Milken Institute Global Conference 2021 and many discussions addressed the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the world at large.
Sun Pharma and Dr Reddy's top list in terms of those who face most class-action litigation
The broader markets ended negatively with mid-caps and small-caps shedding 0.5 per cent on the BSE.
Last year, Ranbaxy had paid around $4,20,000 to the US state of Idaho as part of a $500-million settlement that the drug firm had signed with US authorities.
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'.
The company has not yet revealed details about the unexplained illness but has stopped trials while doctors find out if the illness was caused due to the vaccine or was a coincidence.
On October 2, a legislature committee wrote letters to the 14 companies, initiating an investigation and seeking details about recent price increases in several generic products available in the American market.
Elizabeth Holmes founded Theranos in 2003 and it promised ground-breaking methods that would allow quick results for a wide range of tests with just one drop of blood.
The Competition Commission of India and the US Federal Trade Commission are yet to give their nod to the biggest pharma merger and acquisition deal this year in the Asia-Pacific region.
The deadly virus, which has killed over 5,000 people globally, has spread to 46 of the 50 US states.
Slapped with Rs 242-crore fine by US authorities for rule violations at Toansa unit, say sources; 2nd such hefty rap in the recent past from US regulators for bending rules.
Sensex, Nifty put up a good show in closing trade.
In 2014, Sun Pharma agreed to buy Ranbaxy -- which was then controlled by Daiichi.
The dinner Jill Biden and her husband US President Joe Biden hosted for Indian prime minister Narendra Modi, June 22, at the White House brought together, Indians and Americans from so many firmaments.
Despite their opposition based on ideology, both the political Right and the political Left possess similar behaviour, observes Shyam G Menon.
Many federations and former athletes alike have been calling for an anti-doping legislation to implement the existing rules.
The joint entity will have a market share of nine per cent in India. Analysts tracking the company said one of the key outcomes of the merger would be to create a single brand entity of Sun and the Ranbaxy brand would eventually dissolve.
The S&P BSE Sensex surged 217 points to end at 25,736.
Rate-sensitive sectors like banks, auto and realty witnessed strong buying demand in trades today
The continuing administrative logjam worsened into a full-fledged factional tug-of-war while Indian boxing's poster boy, Vijender Singh, found himself at the center of a devastating drug scandal in what was a thoroughly tumultuous year for the country's pugilists.
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Markets ended flat on Tuesday, amid a volatile trading session, as investors exercised caution ahead of the two-day FOMC meet starting today and Reserve Bank of India's monetary policy later this week.
Trump attributed the spike in the confirmed cases of coronavirus to the large-scale testing of the deadly disease.
Unless one is naive beyond redemption, it was clear from the beginning that the Obama Administration and its FBI were trying frantically to prevent the truth regarding Headley from coming out, writed B Raman.
Dr Anthony Fauci has been named as Chief Medical Adviser to the President on COVID-19, while Dr Rochelle Walensky has been named as Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; and Dr. Marcella Nunez-Smith as COVID-19 Equity Task Force Chair.
Benchmark indices finished higher on hopes of economic reforms
Patanjali's packet milk to be lower than competitor brands by Rs 2 a litre
'We built it in the last three years and then one day, they came and they said you have to close it'
Trump's move followed a rare show of bipartisanship on Thursday when legislators voted to fund large swaths of the government and avoid a repeat of the recent five-week government shutdown.
Torrent to buy Ranbaxy's anti-bacterial generic
In the longest losing streak of 2017, the BSE Sensex has lost 1,270 points, or 3.91 per cent. It fell to a three-month low of 31,154.03 on Wednesday.
In 2013, Daiichi had launched the arbitration proceedings in Singapore.
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