US spokesperson Ned Price said before we can ship vaccines, every country is required to complete its own domestic set of operational, regulatory and legal processes.
In an article in BMJ, former editor Richard Smith says prevalence of fraudulent studies has reached a point where one can now assume health research is fraudulent until proven otherwise.
While Centre says reporting of backlog deaths helps better understand Covid spread, it wants Maharashtra, other states to provide details such as dates & districts to get a more comprehensive picture.
Study also says clinical tools in US and Europe have not factored in the increased risk to South Asians since the latter were not part of the tools' development.
NITI Aayog Member (Health) Dr V K Paul said that globally a third wave of Covid is being seen, and called on people to make efforts to ensure that it does not happen in India.
With long Covid manifesting in a variety of forms, treating it is still a clinical conundrum. But absence of guidance from physicians has opened a path for medical spas, wellness resorts.
Researchers from a US institute inoculated 35 people with 25 micrograms of the Moderna vaccine and found antibodies six months after vaccination. Standard dose of vaccines is 100 micrograms.
Swaminathan warned that it will be a chaotic situation in countries if citizens start deciding ‘when and who should be taking a second, third or fourth dose’.
The patient had earlier tested positive for Covid on 30 January 2020 after returning home from Wuhan university for semester holidays and recovered after 3 weeks of treatment.
Financial year 2022-23 saw private investments & hiring surge, but since then firms are using cash to reduce debt. General elections didn’t help matters, either.
Ambassador Amit Narang wore combat uniform at closing ceremony of India-Oman joint military exercise. Only serving personnel can wear service uniforms, say veterans.
How come Indonesia, Malaysia, Turkey and Sri Lanka remain constitutional, democratic and stable despite Islam and Buddhism respectively, but Pakistan, Bangladesh and Myanmar don’t?
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