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Hand Hygiene, Social Distancing and Masks Remain the Best Preventive Measure for COVID: USCDC

NEW DELHI, May 9: The top American medical body, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, has also found that the principal mode by which people are infected with SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, is through very fine aerosolised particles released during respiration. “Lancet” the top international medical journal had also reported about […]

Retired Army Doctors to be Re-recruited to Fight Covid

NEW DELHI, May 9: The Armed Forces Medical Services (AFMS) is set to recruit 400 retired medical doctors for 11 months to strengthen the fight against the Coviid-19 pandemic, officials said on Sunday. The defence ministry passed an order on Saturday to allow the AFMS to recruit these doctors who were released from service between […]

After Lancet, WHO Scientist Blames “Large Gatherings” for Second Wave in India

Manas Dasgupta NEW DELHI, May 9: After the international medical journal “Lancet” that lamented India’s squandering away the early success in controlling Coronavirus spread and lambasted the Narendra Modi government for the “self-inflicted national catastrophe,” the World Health Organisation chief scientist Soumya Swaminathan has expressed a similar view as India continued to be battered by […]

Himanta Biswa Sarma to be the New Assam Chief Minister, to take Oath on Monday

Manas Dasgupta NEW DELHI, May 9: Though the BJP has retained power in Assam winning a comfortable majority in the just-concluded state Assembly elections, there will be a change of guard in the north-eastern state. Himanta Biswa Sarma was on Sunday elected the leader of the Assam BJP legislature party at its meeting in Guwahati […]

India’s Orders for Medical Supplies from China Mounting

NEW DELHI, May 8: Though India so far has officially not accepted offer from China for help to combat Covid-19 in the country, private medical suppliers in China are filling their coffers from orders from the private companies in India. The supply channels between India and China have also started functioning more smoothly after the […]

Bomb Blast in Kabul: 25 People, Mostly Students, Killed

NEW DELHI, May 8: A bomb exploded near a school in west Kabul on Saturday killing at least 25 people, many of them young students, Afghan government spokesmen said. Interior Ministry spokesman Tariq Arian said ambulances were rushing to the scene of the blast near Syed AlShahda school in the Shiite majority neighborhood of DashteBarchi. […]

NHAI Grants Toll Fee Exemptions to Oxygen Tankers

NEW DELHI, May 8: The National Highway Authority of India has granted exemption from toll fee to tankers and containers carrying Liquid Medical Oxygen (LMO) across National Highways to ensure their uninterrupted speedy movement in the country. Keeping in view the current unprecedented demand of the Medical Oxygen across the country due to COVID-19 Pandemic, […]

Supreme Court Sets up National Task Force to Manage Oxygen Distribution

Manas Dasgupta NEW DELHI, May 8: As Delhi complained of yet another slip by the centre in meeting its oxygen requirement despite the Supreme Court’s order, the apex court on Saturday set up a 12-member National Task Force to assess availability and distribution of medical oxygen – on scientific, rational and equitable basis – across […]

A New Covid Drug Developed, Hospitalisation Norms Relaxed

Manas Dasgupta NEW DELHI, May 8: As India surpassed four lakh mark recording 4.01 lakh new Covid cases in the last 24 hours till Saturday morning, a new drug administered orally developed in the country after a year of experiments and trials as adjunct therapy in moderate to severe Corona patients has been approved for […]

Privacy Policy: WhatsApp Scraps May 15 Deadline

NEW DELHI, May 7: Facing severe backlash from users, WhatsApp has scrapped its May 15 deadline for users to accept its controversial privacy policy update and said not accepting the terms will not lead to deletion of accounts. WhatsApp had faced severe backlash over user concerns that data was being shared with parent company Facebook. […]
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