The number of patients who recuperated from the disease surged to 13,78,105 Friday taking the recovery rate to 67.98 per cent. There are 6,07,384 active cases presently.
In an exclusive interview to ThePrint, India's chief trial coordinator Sheela Godbole says as many as 600 volunteers have been registered & 27 trial sites set up to test 2 treatment drugs.
A registry will enable researchers and policymakers to inform crucial understanding of Covid and detect trends in the progression of the pandemic, an official said.
The three laboratories are in three ICMR institutes at Mumbai, Kolkata and Noida. India has ordered 8 high throughput Covid testing machines from a Swiss company.
In an interview to ThePrint, Panjak R. Patel, chairman of Zydus Cadila, says company has already manufactured clinical batches of the vaccine candidate for phase 1 and 2 trials.
Approximately 1,000 volunteers will be participating in the exercise for each of the two indigenously developed vaccine candidates, the ICMR said Tuesday.
In an article written for the first edition of an ICMR newsletter, e-Samvaad, Balram Bhargava also noted that the novel coronavirus has affected poor people the most.
By consolidating 29 laws into four codes, compliance is streamlined and regulations are simplified, improving “ease of doing business”. This is bound to improve investor confidence.
Rural ownership of motor vehicles jumped from 19 percent in 2011-2012 to 59 percent in 2023-2024, while urban rose from 40 percent to 68 percent during the same time period, study by two members of PM-EAC says.
Indigenisation level will progressively increase up to 60 percent with key sub-assemblies, electronics and mechanical parts being manufactured locally.
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