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Link Your Vaccination Certificate & Passport On CoWin; Here’s How
New Delhi: Proof of vaccination is now mandatory for travelling abroad. The government’s CoWin portal is now enabling users to link their vaccination certificates to passports for use during travel. “Now, you can update your passport number…
How Delta Variant Became Dominant In India & Bypassed Immunity
New Delhi: As the Delta variant (B.1.617.2) becomes dominant throughout the world, there are two patterns emerging — countries with low vaccination rates are seeing both case and fatality rates increase and those with high vaccination rates…
Delhi Inflated Oxygen Requirement By 4 Times: Supreme Court’s Audit Panel
New Delhi: The Delhi government exaggerated the city’s oxygen requirement by four times during the peak of the COVID-19 second wave, a Supreme Court-appointed audit panel has reported.
“The Delhi government’s claim of 1,140 metric tonnes…
AstraZeneca Found 92% Effective Against Delta Variant; Know Similar Other Vaccines
New Delhi: AstraZeneca joins other vaccines that are effective against the Delta variant. COVID-19 Vaccine AstraZeneca offers high levels of protection against the Delta variant (B.1.617.2; formerly the ‘Indian variant), new data…
Private Hospitals Can Order COVID-19 Vaccine Doses Through CoWin From July 1: Report
New Delhi: Come July 1 and private hospitals will be able to book COVID-19 vaccine doses and even make advance payments through the CoWin portal. However, the number of doses a hospital can buy will depend on its past track record in…
Delta Plus Variant Cases Rise To 40 In India, Fear Of 3rd COVID Wave Deepens
Bhubaneswar/New Delhi: Forty cases of Delta Plus variant of the SARS-CoV-2 virus, a mutation of the Delta strain or B.1.617.2 variant first detected in India, have so far been reported sporadically in Maharashtra, Kerala and Madhya Pradesh,…
No Sex Please! People Choose Platonic Friendships As Lockdown Restrictions Ease
Friendships and sex have taken a beating over the past year. No wonder youngsters fled homes as soon as the lockdown restrictions eased and headed straight to meet their friends whose company they had been craving for months.
Quite…
Is Anti-Parasitic Drug Invermectin A Possible Cure For COVID-19?
New Delhi: The University of Oxford is working on the possibility of using the anti-parasitic drug ivermectin as a possible treatment for COVID-19. It was testing the drug as part of a British government-backed study that aims to aid…
1,400 Children Test Coronavirus Positive In 21 Days In This Place
Khammam: There has been a gradual increase in the number of children, between the ages 0 and 12, getting infected by COVID-19 in this Telangana district. The New Indian Express (TNIE) quoted official sources as saying that while a total of…
Now, Oxford-AstraZeneca Vaccine Linked To Rare Neurological Disorder
New Delhi: A rare neurological disorder called Guillain-Barre syndrome have been found in 11 individuals who had received the AstraZeneca-Oxford COVID-19 vaccine.
According to the two studies by clinicians in India and England, published…