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19 Jun

Amid surge in COVID-19 cases

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New Delhi: Amid the increasing pace of coronavirus cases, the recovery rate in the country is also improving day by day. With 10,386 patients being recovered from the deadly COVID-19 during the last 24 hours, the total number of recovered patients in the country crossed the 2 lakh-mark to reach 2,04,710 on Friday. With this the recovery rate in the country also improved to 53.79 per cent from 52.96 per cent. The Health Ministry said in a release that the trend in daily numbers shows an increasing rate of recovery and an increasing gap between active and recovered cases. The health…

19 Jun

Glenmark Gets Approval For Favipiravir As COVID-19 Treatment

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Glenmark Pharmaceuticals Ltd said on Friday it had received an approval from India's drugs regulator to make and sell oral antiviral drug favipiravir for treating mild-to-moderate COVID-19 patients in the country. The Mumbai-based drugmaker said the approval was part of government's accelerated approval process and the drug would be for "restricted emergency use" in the country. Favipiravir is made under the brand name Avigan by Japan's Fujifilm Holdings Corp and was approved for use as an anti-flu drug there in 2014.

19 Jun

Over 15k samples collected in 24 hours for testing Covid-19

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Over 15,000 samples were collected for testing coronavirus in the national capital within a 24-hour span, a senior official said on Friday. A total of 7,040 samples were collected for rapid antigen test and 7,972 samples were collected for the RT-PCR test for coronavirus on Thursday, the official said. The Delhi government commenced Covid-19 testing through rapid antigen methodology at 193 centres on Thursday. A total of 7,040 samples were collected and out of them, 456 people were found to be positive. In the initial phase, those residing in containment zones are being tested. The Delhi government has also capped…

19 Jun

Odisha’s Covid-19 tally nears 5,000; 165 new cases reported

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165 more Covid-19 cases have been reported from Odisha in the last 24 hours, taking the total number of coronavirus cases in the state to 4,677, informed the state Health Department on Friday. Of these, the number of active cases stands at 1,519. “165 new cases of #COVID19 recorded in Odisha in the last 24 hours, taking the total number of cases to 4677 out of which 1519 cases are active,” the state Health Department tweeted.Enter your email to get

19 Jun

Delhi health minister Satyendar Jain’s condition worsens

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The condition of Delhi health minister Satyendar Jain, who has tested positive for the coronavirus disease (Covid-19), deteriorated on Friday and he is being shifted to another hospital in the Capital, officials said. Satyendar Jain had tweeted on Wednesday that he has tested positive for the coronavirus disease. He was admitted to the Rajiv Gandhi Super Speciality Hospital (RGSSH) on Tuesday after he developed high fever and his oxygen saturation levels dropped. Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) legislator Atishi and two other leaders of the party have also contracted the respiratory disease. Akshay Marathe, an advisor to CM Arvind Kejriwal, and…

19 Jun

NEWS | Over 13,000 new cases have been reported across India in the last 24 hours with more than 300 deaths recorded in a day.

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GUWAHATI: Assam recorded 210 new cases as per health minister Himanta Biswa Sarma’s latest tweet at 11.40 pm on June 18. With this rise in numbers, the state has a total of 4,904 coronavirus positive cases of which 2,044 are active. While 2,848 persons have been cured and discharged, 9 persons have passed away so far. Coronavirus cases in India stand at 3,80,532 with 1,63,248 active cases and 12,573 deaths across the country so far, as per latest data released by the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare. Over 13,000 new cases have been reported across the country over the last 24…

18 Jun

Covid-19 spreads easily among people who live together

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COVID-19 spreads easily among people who live together and other family members, even before an infected person shows any symptoms, according to a modelling study that is the first-of-its-kind to quantify symptomless transmission. The research, published in The Lancet Infectious Diseases journal on Wednesday, also suggests the SARS-CoV-2 that causes COVID-19 may spread more easily in households than severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) or Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS). The analysis, based on contact tracing data from 349 people with COVID-19 and 1,964 of their close contacts in Guangzhou, China, found that people with COVID-19 were at least as infectious…

17 Jun

BUZZ | Social Science Research Community (SSRC), India organized a National Webinar on the theme ‘COVID-19 and Assam: Challenges to the Economy and Social Security’.

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GUWAHATI: Social Science Research Community (SSRC), India, a self sponsored platform constituted by the researchers and scholars of social scientists from all across the country organized a National Webinar on 16 June 2020 on the theme ‘COVID-19 and Assam: Challenges to the Economy and Social Security’. Addressing the Colloquium Prof. Binod Khadria, former faculty of Economics, Education and Migration, Jawaharlal Nehru University, after presenting a comprehensive analysis on migration from global to the local, suggested to make Assam a hub of higher education to retain students migrating out of the state for higher studies and to raise the labour productivity of…

17 Jun

State government takes over Salboni Hospital

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Kolkata/ Salboni, June 17: JSW Foundation, the social development arm of JSW Group, is currently in the process of handing over the Salboni’s Super Specialty Hospital (SSH) and its assets to the State Government. In 2018, Government of West Bengal handed over the Operations & Total Management of this hospital to JSW Foundation under a unique Public-Private-Partnership (PPP). Salboni’s Super Specialty Hospital is one of the hospitals established in West Bengal under the Government initiative to provide affordable and effective medical services to public. Now, the State government decided to take over the Salboni’s Super Specialty Hospital so that it…

17 Jun

Pernod Ricard India Foundation’s initiative

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Itanagar, June 2020: Pernod Ricard India Foundation extended its support towards strengthening Arunachal Pradesh’s Government Hospital ICUs and public Healthcare Infrastructure. As the number of COVID-19 cases accelerate with lockdown restrictions easing across the country, it has become imperative for healthcare systems to be prepared for an exponential surge of cases on a war footing. In such time of distress, Pernod Ricard India Foundation is humbled to join hands with Excise Department, Government of Arunachal Pradesh to provide preventive health care supplies such as 5 ICU ventilators, 10 ICU fowler beds and 5000 surgical masks for Arunachal Pradesh. Pernod Ricard…