In an interview to ThePrint, company's founding director says the firm is working on several projects aiming to make high-quality and cost-effective diagnostics to underserved parts of India
New ICMR testing strategy, notified Monday, comes as Covid infections among doctors soar. In Delhi alone, 750 doctors at six major hospitals are reportedly infected with Covid.
The health ministry outlined that control rooms must have real-time data on availability of testing centres, ambulances & should be able to guide a caller on availing these services.
The high court was hearing a plea seeking contempt action against online health service aggregators which are operating illegally and collecting samples for Covid test.
The daily positivity rate was recorded at 2.79%. It has remained below 3% for the last 21 days. The weekly positivity rate was recorded at 2.01%, the health ministry said.
The daily positivity rate was recorded at 1.94%. It has been less than 3% for the last 17 days, the ministry said, adding the weekly positivity rate was recorded at 2.23%.
As of Monday 8am, India's number of active cases declined to 4,02,188, its total Covid burden was 3,19,69,954 cases while death toll was 4,28,309, according to the health ministry.
Current Uttarakhand Chief Minister Tirath Rawat remarked Thursday that the Covid testing scam was from before he took charge as CM. He also said a probe was underway.
Economists say there are weaknesses in India’s GDP data. But statisticians claim the accusations are based on flawed understanding, saying while GDP has problems, the economists are looking in the wrong places.
Both the governments expressed their commitment to strengthening their maritime cooperation to strengthen the maritime safety and security framework in the region.
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