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New Delhi: A senior official of Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) said on Friday that the coronavirus will subsequently reach its ‘endemic’ stage, just like influenza, and will ‘always’ be present among a certain population or…

New Delhi: An Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) study has found that a worrying number of COVID-19 patients have died because of secondary infections. To be precise, more than half (56%) of coronavirus patients who had developed…

New Delhi: There has been considerable debate over why the gap between doses of the Covishield vaccine has been changed since it was first used in India four months ago. As per the latest guidelines, the second dose of Covishield – the…

The second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic has brought India's gross mismanagement of the whole situation to the fore. Amidst over 2 lakh infections for five consecutive days, shortage of medical oxygen, the antiviral Remdesivir, hospital…

New Delhi: Clearly, India cannot afford to let its guard down, for both the South African and Brazilian variants of the coronavirus have been detected in the country in January and this month, Indian Council of Medical Research’s (ICMR) …

New Delhi: Amid criticism of what many consider to be ‘premature’ emergency use approval given to Bharat Biotech’s Covaxin, a senior scientist of Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) vouched for the safety of the indigenously developed…

New Delhi: As India prepares for mass vaccination, ICMR Director General Dr Balram Bhargava opined that masks will probably never go. “We don't know for how long the vaccine will be effective, we don't know how much of the population we'll…

New Delhi: The Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) said that India has successfully cultured the new COVID-19 strain that originated in the United Kingdom. The ICMR claimed via a tweet that no country is yet to report successful…

New Delhi: A day after the Subject Expert Committee (SEC) on COVID-19 of the Central Drugs Standard Control Organisation (CDSCO) recommended granting permission for emergency use of the Oxford vaccine, the expert panel on Saturday gave…

Cipla Limited has entered into a partnership with Premier Medical Corporation Private Limited for the commercialisation of the rapid antigen test kits to detect COVID 19 in India. The company will start supplying the kits that will detect…