Covid19: Delhi lockdown extended till June 7
Delhi/IBNS: The Delhi government has extended the lockdown imposed to control spiralling coronavirus infection till June 7 while allowing the construction and manufacturing sectors to resume work with restrictions.
Delhi: Sisodia slams Centre for vaccine distribution system over shortage
Delhi/IBNS: Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia Friday accused the Centre for stubbornly sitting on vaccine distribution system while pointing out shortage of vaccine jabs that forced the state government to suspend inoculation for 18-44 years age group last week.
Arvind Kejriwal announces phased unlock for Delhi as Covid positivity rate falls to 2 pc
Delhi/IBNS: Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal on Friday announced phased unlocking of the Capital as 1,141 new cases were recorded from 71,853 tests that translated to 2 per cent positivity rate for three consecutive days.
Mumbai students with confirmed admission to foreign universities to be vaccinated on priority
Mumbai/IBNS: Students in Mumbai will be vaccinated on priority if they have got confirmed admissions to universities abroad and need to get inoculated before travelling to another country, the Maharashtra government said Friday.
'Significant adverse effects' unlikely : Centre says after vaccine doses mixed in UP and Maharashtra
New Delhi/IBNS: After over a dozen villagers in an Uttar Pradesh village were given a different coronavirus vaccine from their first dose, the Centre has said "significant adverse effects" are unlikely but also called it an oversight as no instruction to administer a cocktail of vaccines was given.
Covid-19: Former Bengal CM Buddhadeb Bhattacharya stable in hospital
Kolkata/IBNS: Former West Bengal Chief Minister and veteran CPI (M) leader Buddhadeb Bhattacharya, who tested positive for coronavirus and has been undergoing treatment at Woodlands Hospital, is in a stable condition, a health bulletin from the hospital said Thursday.
Covid-19 restrictions extended in West Bengal
Kolkata/IBNS: The ongoing Covid restrictions in West Bengal extended till June 15 amid rising cases of the infection.
New Delhi/IBNS: Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan has slammed Congress leader Rahul Gandhi over his barbed tweet on a New York Times report on Covid numbers in India, saying that playing politics on Covid deaths should be learned from "vultures of the earth".
Moderna's single dose Covid19 vaccine by 2022 in India
New Delhi/IBNS: Moderna is planning to launch a single dose vaccine for the Indian market only in 2022 as it has no surplus vaccines in 2021, media reports said.
Tata Steel pledges to continue salary, medical and housing benefits to employees who die of Covid19
Jamshedpur/IBNS: Tata Steel has announced that it will continue to pay salaries, including medical and housing benefits, to employees in India who fall victim to Covid-19 for the remaining period of their employment till the age of 60.
New Delhi/IBNS: Pfizer has offered 5 crore Covid-19 vaccine doses to India albeit with pre-conditions as the country ramps up production amid a raging pandemic.
Ramdev withdraws comments on allopathy after Harsh Vardhan's letter
New Delhi/IBNS: Yoga Guru Baba Ramdev on Sunday said he was withdrawing his comments, in which he allegedly said more people died of modern medical treatments during the COVID-19 crisis than the coronavirus itself, sparking a massive controversy.
Strict restrictions continue in Kashmir; no significant dip in fresh COVID-19 cases
Srinagar/UNI: Strict restrictions continued for the fourth successive week on Sunday as there was no significant dip in the number of fresh coronavirus cases in Kashmir valley, where ‘COVID curfew’ remained imposed from April 29 to curtail the spread of the deadly infection.
No consensus on vaccine passport yet at WHO level: Centre
New Delhi/IBNS: The World Health Organization (WHO) is yet to reach a consensus on vaccine passport, which will enable international travel for individuals who have received coronavirus vaccine jabs, Health Ministry joint secretary Lav Agarwal said Saturday, media reports said.
New Delhi/IBNS: The Indian Medical Association (IMA) has lambasted Yoga Guru Ramdev over his statement on allopathy and demanded the Union Health Ministry to either prosecute him under Epidemic Diseases Act 1897 or accept his accusations and dissolve the modern medical facility