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07 Jul

Sputnik V trials among 12-17 years starts in Moscow

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Early trials of Sputnik V vaccine from Russia among children aged 12 to 17 have started in Moscow. 100 volunteers have been recruited who haven't been infected with coronavirus and don't have health issues that would prevent them from getting the disease. Deputy Mayor Anastasia Rakova said the youths will receive a small dose of Sputnik V than what is usually given to adults. The new trial comes as Russia faces a good flow in coronavirus infections and struggles to ramp up its low vaccine uptake. Last week, only 23 million people, of the country's 146-million population, have received at…

06 Jul

Pfizer’s Covid-19 vaccine ‘less effective against Delta variant: Israel

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Pfizer’s Covid-19 vaccine was less effective in stopping people from getting infected with the Delta variant of coronavirus in the country in recent weeks, the Israeli government has said. According to Bloomberg, data from Israel’s health ministry showed the Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine protected 64 per cent of the country’s people against the virus between June 6 and early July, down from the earlier 94 per cent. This decline has been observed amid the emergence and rise in cases of Delta variant in the country, the data revealed. Moreover, the surge in Delta variant cases also coincided with the lifting of…

05 Jul

Mega vaccination camp in siliguri helps over 600 people to get their jab

editor0 CommentsCovid19, Health, India, West BengalCOVID VACCINE, Rotary Club, Siliguri

Over 600 people were vaccinated at the Mega vaccination camp which the Rotary Club of Siliguri organised. The camp was inaugurated by RK Jain and Dr Rajeev Trehan. They said to the media that more and more people should get vaccinated very soon at this difficult hour. Subhomoy Mitra from Neotia Getwel said they are glad to give vaccination to the common people at places that are near heir homes. Rotary Club members Rakesh Garg , Sanjay Sharma, Rajesh Agarwal along with other members were present to make the camp a successful one. After the disastrous effect of covid-19 we…

05 Jul

In a survey suggest that plastic ban has not been successful across 11 states and two Union territories

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A survey across 11 states and two Union territories across the Himalayan region in the country works on the issue of waste suggests that while most people were aware of the existence of plastic bag ban in their areas, most believe the ban has not succeeded. The report published by Roshan Rai, Priyadarshinee Shrestha and Rajendra P. Gurung, suggests that only 19 per cent felt the ban was highly effective , while 82 per cent of the respondents were aware of the existence of the plastic bag ban in their region. In Bengal, plastic carry bags are banned in Darjeeling…

03 Jul

Covishield Should Be Recognised in Travel Schemes: UK PM Johnson

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The Union Kingdom Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Friday, 2 July, said that there was no reason why people who received Covishield – the Indian-made AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccines, should be left out of vaccine passport schemes, reported Reuters. This comes after the European Union did not recognise the vaccine for travel purposes. About 5 million people in Britain are thought to have had the vaccine made by Serum Institute in India, known as Covishield. "I see no reason at all why the MHRA-approved vaccines should not be recognised as part of the vaccine passports and Im very confident that that…

03 Jul

Bengal Govt fixes medical test rates for private labs and hospitals

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On Friday , Similar to the capping of coronavirus test prices the West Bengal Clinical Establishment Regulatory Commission (WBCERC) fixed the charges on five radiological tests and 15 pathological tests which are conducted by private hospitals. The health department has issued an order that all private hospitals with more than 150 beds would follow the order. Among pathological tests, the Procalcitonin test cannot cost more than Rs 4,000, the upper limit for the IL-6 test has been fixed at Rs 3,500, for D-dimer, it is Rs 2,300. According to the commission, Amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, many had complained about exorbitant rates of tests…

03 Jul

Union health ministry decided would set up two oxygen plants at north Bengal hospitals

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The Union health ministry has assigned two central agencies to set up two oxygen plants at the district hospitals of Darjeeling and Kalimpong and decided conduct the projects. On Friday,the BJP MP of Darjeeling Raju Bista said that Pressure Swing Adsorption i.e. medical oxygen generator plants which would be irst-of-its-kind facility in the hills,would be available at the hospitals very soon. The MP, Raju Bista has said that I had written a letter to the Prime Minister , mentioning that and requested him for oxygen plants, one each in these two places and another in Siliguri where patients from all…

02 Jul

First of its kind of surgery at Apollo Proton Cancer Centre

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India’s first of its kind Mega prosthesis Fixation for femur (thigh bone) and Laparoscopic Radical nephrectomy to remove a cancerous kidney as a single stage surgery through a Multimodal approach has been performed on a woman (54) from Assam giving her a new lease of life. Two complex and complicated surgery on the patient has been successfully performed at same time by a team of doctors at Apollo Proton Cancer Centre (the first Proton Therapy Centre in South Asia & the Middle East). The patient had sustained fracture of her left thigh bone and suffered with a trivial injury 2…

01 Jul

Delta variant to become dominant strain of COVID-19 in coming months: WHO

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The World Health Organisation has said the Delta variant of COVID-19 is now present in nearly 100 countries as per conservative estimates, and warned that in the coming months the highly transmissible strain will become the dominant variant of the coronavirus globally. In its COVID-19 Weekly Epidemiological Update, the WHO said as of June 29, 2021, "96 countries have reported cases of the Delta variant, though this is likely an underestimate as sequencing capacities needed to identify variants are limited. A number of these countries are attributing surges in infections and hospitalisations to this variant." "A number of these countries…

01 Jul

India Logs 48,786 New COVID-19 Cases,Recorded Recovery Rate At 96.97%

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India on Thursday recorded 48,786 new COVID-19 cases in the last 24 hours. Active cases are now below 8 lakh mark at 5,23,257. Active cases constitute 1.72% of total cases.In the last 24 hours, 61,588 patients recovered from the infection. The total tally of people who have recovered so far from the disease is 2,94,88,918.The recovery rate has increased to 96.97%.33.57 crore vaccine doses were administered so far under a nationwide vaccination drive. The weekly positivity rate remains below 5%, currently at 2.64%.Daily recoveries continue to outnumber the daily new cases for the 49th consecutive day.The daily positivity rate is…