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Thursday, August 14, 2025
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India beat Covid ‘doomsday’ prophecies, made ‘monumental strides’ in handling pandemic: ICMR 

ICMR, in its newsletter, lists achievements — from starting a multi-centre trial on plasma therapy to conducting national sero surveys — but says we must remain 'Covid conscious'.

Lessons from the thalidomide tragedy in 1950s for vaccine trials in India

Campus Voice is an initiative by ThePrint where young Indians get an opportunity to express their opinions on a prevalent issue.

Slow vaccination deliberate, will soon rise to 70 lakh/day from 5 lakh: ICMR task force member

Dr N.K. Arora, head of the operations research group in ICMR task force, says the slow pace of vaccination was to understand 'hiccups' in the system.

Covaxin neutralises UK variant of Covid in lab setting, new ICMR paper says

Pre-print, non-peer-reviewed paper says Covaxin effective as it is made of a whole inactivated virus and not based solely on spike protein.

98.4% adults eat inadequate amount of fruits & vegetables, 1 in 5 overweight — govt survey

The Non-Communicable Disease Monitoring Survey report noted that 41.3% adults and 25.2% adolescents were not physically active.

In a pandemic, vaccine approval considerations have to change — top ICMR scientist on Covaxin

Dr Samiran Panda, head of ICMR's epidemiology department, also told ThePrint that ICMR publishes all its research findings, including data related to Covaxin.

India registers 18,645 fresh Covid cases, tally rises to 1,04,50,284

While the recoveries have surged to 1,00,75,950, the fatalities reached 1,50,999 with 201 more people succumbing to the disease in a span of 24 hours on Saturday.

India’s Covid tally rises to 1.04 crore with 18,139 new infections in a day

A total of 1,00,37,398 people have recuperated from the virus while the death toll has increased to 1,50,570 as 234 people succumbed to the disease in the last 24 hours.

Plasma therapy, if given early, could curb severe Covid symptoms in the elderly, study finds

The study in NEJM, conducted by Argentina-based non-profit, used convalescent plasma for the treatment of elderly Covid patients before severe symptoms develop.

India registers 16,504 new Covid cases, recoveries surge to 99.46 lakh

While the death toll increased to 1,49,649 with 214 new fatalities in the last 24 hours, the daily new cases in the country remained below 20,000 for the third consecutive day.

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