The medical body said the govt’s statement is an ‘abandonment of the national heroes who have stood up for our people’. By Akshita Jain After the Health Ministry said this week that the centre does not maintain data of healthcare workers who died due to Covid-19, the Indian Medical Association (IMA) has published a list of […]
The story of cholera anchors the first episode of Scrolls & Leaves, a new podcast co-hosted by Mary-Rose Abraham and Gayathri Vaidyanathan. HEALTH HISTORY THE SCIENCES WORLD In August 1817, Robert Tytler, a British surgeon, enters a hut in the Jessore bazaar and encounters a man with diarrhoea and vomiting. Tytler is shaken. This seems […]
LAW The petition claimed that a majority of the country’s population belong to financially weaker sections, wherein only one person is an earning member and others in the family are solely depend on that income for their sustenance. PTI GOVERNMENT HEALTH LAW New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Monday refused to entertain a plea seeking formulation […]
MUMBAI (Reuters) – The number of coronavirus infections in India crossed the 3 million mark with 69,239 new cases reported on Sunday even as the country opened up various sectors from a lockdown that ground businesses to a halt and hurt economic growth. With the fifth straight day of more than 60,000 new cases, India’s […]
Coronavirus will be present “forever in some form or another”, a member of the government’s Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (Sage) has said. Sir Mark Walport said people would need to be vaccinated at regular intervals. His comments come after the head of the World Health Organization (WHO) said he hoped the pandemic would be over […]
MUMBAI (Reuters) – India reported more than 64,000 new cases of the novel coronavirus in a single day, with more than 1,000 deaths in the same period, federal health ministry data showed on Wednesday. The world’s second-most populous country had 64,531 new infections, which took the virus tally to 2.8 million. The number of deaths […]
THE WIRE STAFF Coronavirus Daily Updates: India’s COVID-19 Death Toll Crosses 50k Mark New Delhi/Bengaluru: In a statement released on August 12, the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare claimed India’s “high” COVID-19 recovery rate was the result of a successful implementation of its containment strategy. On the same day, India’s recovery rate crossed 70%, and […]
AYUSH Minister Shripad Naik Tests Positive For COVID-19 THE WIRE STAFF Featured image: Minister of State for AYUSH, Shripad Y. Naik. Photo: Twitter/@shripadynaik New Delhi: Union minister Shripad Y. Naik on Wednesday said he has tested positive for COVID-19. Naik is Minister of State for AYUSH and defence. In a tweet, Naik said he will isolate […]
BENGALURU (Reuters) – Zydus Cadila on Thursday launched the cheapest generic version of Gilead Sciences’ antiviral drug remdesivir in India to treat COVID-19 following reports of shortages at hospitals in the world’s third-worst hit nation. Zydus has priced it at 2,800 rupees ($37.44) per 100mg vial. It will be sold under the brand name Remdac […]
Gabrielle Tétrault-Farber, Vladimir Soldatkin MOSCOW (Reuters) – President Vladimir Putin said on Tuesday that Russia had become the first country in the world to grant regulatory approval to a COVID-19 vaccine after less than two months of human testing, a move hailed by Moscow as evidence of its scientific prowess. The vaccine still has to complete […]
