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SII To Cut Covishield Production by 50% Starting Next Week, Says Adar Poonawalla; Know Why
New Delhi: Serum Institute of India (SII) has decided to cut production of COVID-19 vaccine, Covishield, by as much as 50 per cent as there aren’t any further orders from the Centre.
“Reducing production by at least 50 per cent starting…
Sputnik Light Expected To Be Authorised In India As Standalone Vaccine & Universal Booster
New Delhi: Sputnik Light, Russia's one-shot vaccine based on human adenovirus serotype 26 is expected to be authorised in India soon as a standalone vaccine and a universal booster, confirmed Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF) that…
Mild Third COVID Wave Likely In Jan, Feb 2022: IIT Kanpur Prof
New Delhi: According to an IIT professor, a mild third wave of COVID-19 is likely to peak in India between January and February next year. IIT Kanpur professor Manindra Agrawal, who has made this claim, is a co-founder of the…
29 Students In Karnataka Private Nursing School Test COVID-19 Positive
New Delhi: Twenty-nine students at a private nursing school in Karnataka’s Shivamogga district have been infected with COVID-19, informed Shivamogga Deputy Commissioner KB Sivakumar, adding that most of the students were asymptomatic.
"We…
Delhi Reports First Omicron Variant Case; India Toll Now 5
New Delhi: Delhi Health Minister Satyendar Jain on Sunday confirmed the first case of the Omicron variant of coronavirus in the capital, taking the total count of confirmed Omicron cases in India to five.
The patient, who returned from…
Omicron Had Come To India Two Days Before Official Announcement: Virologist
New Delhi: Omicron had come to India before official news of it having set foot in the country was reported. Karnataka had detected the new variant on November 30 and the announcement came on December 2.
India detected the first cases of…
Zimbabwe Returnee Tests Positive For Omicron Variant Of COVID; Confirmed Cases Rise To 3
New Delhi: Two days after Healthy Ministy confirmed the first two Omicron cases in India, a 72-year-old man, who returned from Zimbabwe, has tested positive for this highly-mutated variant of COVID in Jamnagar city of Gujarat.
The sample…
Here 13 Foreign Returnees Furnished Wrong Numbers, Addresses
Lucknow: Among the 300 travellers who landed in Uttar Pradesh’s Meerut, 13 have furnished wrong addresses and phone numbers, said the district’s chief medical officer. Efforts are on to locate them.
According to Meerut’s chief medical…
Consider Booster Doses For People Above 40: India’s Genome Sequencing Consortium
New Delhi: An Indian consortium has recommended considering the administration of a booster dose of coronavirus vaccines to people above 40 years of age.
The Indian SARS-CoV-2 Genomics Consortium, responsible for monitoring genome…
Omicron Scare: Indian Shuttler, Two Others Stranded In Botswana
New Delhi: An Indian badminton player and two others are stranded in Botswana amid the Omicron scare. Commercial flights out of the country have been banned at two transit points, Dubai and Doha.
Priyansh Khushwani (21) and two others -…