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Five Pharma Companies Get Go-Ahead To Manufacture Black Fungus Drug
New Delhi: Five pharmaceutical companies have got the go-ahead to manufacture the anti-fungal drug Amphotericin B, used to treat mucormycosis or black fungus. The Drugs Controller General of India (DCGI) has cleared their applications.
The…
#YoungWarrior Campaign: CBSE To Train 5 Million Youth In Fight Against COVID-19
New Delhi: The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) has started a movement called Young Warrior. The movement entails engaging 5 million young people to lead action against COVID-19 with an aim to impact 50 million people.
CBSE has…
Almost 50 Percent of Indians Still Don’t Wear Face Mask: Ministry of Health Survey
New Delhi: The Union Health Ministry on Thursday revealed that around half of the country’s population does not wear a mask. Only 14 percent of the population wears the mask correctly, it said in a briefing
The numbers are based on a study…
Chipko Movement Pioneer Sundarlal Bahuguna Dies Of COVID-19 At 94
Uttarakhand: Environmentalist Sundarlal Bahuguna, the man behind Chipko Movement, died on Friday at the age of 94. He was admitted to AIIMS Rishikesh on May 8 for treatment of COVID-19. Reports said he was suffering from pneumonia and had…
COVID-19: India Records 2,59,551 Cases, Lowest In A Month; Toll Surges
New Delhi: Barely a day after recording less than 4000 deaths, India’s COVID-19 casualties soared to a grim 4,209, the Union Health and Family Welfare Ministry said on Friday. However, the positive case count dropped to 2,59,551, the lowest…
After Black Fungus, Now Deadlier White Fungus Cases Reported In India
Patna: Amid concerns over rising cases of Mucormycosis or black fungus in COVID-19 recovered patients, four cases of a deadlier ‘white fungus’ have been reported in Patna, Bihar. One of the infected patients is a famous doctor from Patna.…
States Must Declare Black Fungus An Epidemic: Centre
New Delhi: Amid the rising cases of mucormycosis (black fungus) reported in various parts of the country, the Union Health Ministry on Thursday directed all states to declare it as an epidemic and list it under the “Epidemic Diseases Act”…
No Side Effects Among 20 Children Who Underwent Trials Of Indigenous ZyCoV-D Vaccine At Karnataka…
Belagavi: Two months after the first-phase clinical trials of the country's second indigenously-developed COVID-19 vaccine, ZyCoV-D, were conducted on 20 children between the age of 12 and 18 years, none of them is reported to have had any…
Daily COVID Recoveries Far Exceed New Infections In India
New Delhi: In a heartening trend amid the COVID-19 gloom, the country logged 3,69,077 recoveries on Thursday, which far exceeded the new infections (2,76,110) reported in the last 24 hours.
This was for the seventh consecutive day that the…
PM Modi’s Approval Rating Falls Amid Second COVID-19 Wave: US firm
New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s approval ratings have fallen to a new low amid the second wave of the coronavirus epidemic, a survey showed on Tuesday, reported Reuters. Narendra Modi's overall ratings this week stand at 63%, his…