Tag: Covid19

New Delhi: After the controversy broke out over the CBSE’s decision to drop topics like citizenship, federalism, secularism, etc while reducing the syllabus for Classes 9 to 12 due to Covid-19 pandemic, the education board came up with a detailed clarification on Wednesday, stating that topics claimed to be dropped “are either being covered by […]

Berhampur: Ganjam district administration imposed a 5-day shutdown in all urban areas including Berhampur Municipal Corporation, Hinjilicut Municipality, all NACs and 5 block headquarters on Wednesday. Keeping in view the surge in COVID-19 positive cases, District Magistrate Vijay Amruta Kulange has directed to impose shutdown in all town areas from till July 13. 5 block […]

Bhubaneswar: As COVID deaths continue to rise in Odisha, Institute of Life Sciences (ILS) Director Ajay Parida on Friday informed that Plasma therapy to treat coronavirus patients will start at four hospitals in the State. Within next 10 to 12 days, Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik will inaugurate four such facilities at SCB Medical College and […]

New Delhi: Chief Justice S.A. Bobde on Friday, citing migrant workers’ case, said it is not for the apex court to take up every matter at the very first instance, especially in the backdrop that facts associated with the matter differ from one state to another. The Chief Justice said, “people and lawyers’ have expressed […]

New York: Scientists have developed a “catch and kill” air filter that can trap the virus responsible for Covid-19, killing it instantly. A study, published in the journal Materials Today Physics, found that 99.8 per cent of the Covid-19 virus was killed in a single pass through a filter made from commercially available nickel foam […]

New Delhi: Doctors in state hospitals are being advised to use antiviral Remdesivir on COVID-19 patients strictly as per protocol amid some reports of liver damage in such patients treated with the drug, official sources said. While the health ministry is reviewing the guidelines on the usage of the drug following the adverse reports, states […]

New Delhi: India recorded its highest single-day spike of 27,114 new coronavirus cases and 519 deaths in the last 24 hours, pushing the total tally to over eight lakh with a total of 22,123 deaths, Health Ministry’s data stated on Saturday. Alarmingly, the country added one lakh cases in merely four days. On Tuesday, the […]

New Delhi: Domain registration and web hosting giant GoDaddy on Saturday announced a partnership with crowdfunding platform Ketto to help Indian businesses hit by Covid-19 disruptions to host a fundraiser campaign for free. As part of this initiative, a small business based in India, with a website holding an active .in, .co.in, org.in, net.in or […]

Geneva: The World Health Organisation has praised the efforts taken to contain the spread of the COVID-19 in Dharavi, one of the world’s largest slums, underscoring the need for community engagement along with national unity and global solidarity to turn the pandemic around. Dharavi, which is located in India’s commercial capital Mumbai, is spread over […]

Mumbai: India’s economy is showing signs of getting back to normalcy, Reserve Bank of India Governor Shaktikanta Das said on Saturday. In a keynote address at the 7th SBI Banking and Economics Conclave, Das noted that medium term outlook still remains uncertain. “Despite the substantial impact of pandemic in our daily lives, the financial system […]

Berhampur: At a time when Ganjam continues to be worst affected by the COVID19 pandemic in Odisha, a naib sarpanch in the district was arrested and later suspended for organising a religious congregation in gross violation of the Covid norms. It may be noted that Odisha government has assigned powers of a district magistrate to […]

New Delhi: Legendary Bollywood actor Amitabh Bachchan has tested positive for coronavirus. He has been reportedly admitted to Mumbai’s Nanavati hospital. Big B shared the news on his twitter post with a note saying, “I have tested CoviD positive .. shifted to Hospital .. hospital informing authorities .. family and staff undergone tests , results […]

New Delhi: Based on clinical trials data, India’s drug regulator has approved itolizumab, used to treat skin condition psoriasis, for restricted emergency use on COVID-19 patients with moderate to severe acute respiratory distress, the Union health ministry said on Saturday. Considering the unmet medical needs in COVID-19, Drugs Controller General of India (DCGI) Dr V […]

Moscow: Russia has become the first nation to complete clinical trials of Covid-19 vaccine on humans, and the results have proven the medication’s effectiveness, the media reported on Sunday. Chief researcher Elena Smolyarchuk, who heads the Center for Clinical Research on Medications at Sechenov University, told Russian news agency TASS on Sunday that the human […]

New Delhi: Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology (IIIT-Delhi) on Sunday said it has developed an Artificial Intelligence (AI) model for drug repositioning in the treatment of Covid-19. This means that instead of manually going through ever available drug and checking its effectiveness against Covid-19 (which is a painstakingly long process), one can now rely on […]