The permission was granted Monday under the provisions of New Drugs and Clinical Trial Rules, 2019 to HCG Bangalore Institute of Oncology Speciality Centre.
The trial assumes the ICMR-recommended HCQ regimen is an ‘effective treatment’. However, ICMR chief epidemiologist says there isn’t enough evidence behind this.
Dr Raman R Gangakhedkar, head scientist of ICMR, said of the 37,000 tests conducted on 18 April, 29,287 tests were done in the labs of the ICMR network.
India has also received rapid testing kits from China, which the ICMR says will be relied on to map the Covid-19 trend in the country rather than diagnose new cases.
Twenty nine bats of 2 species from Kerala, Himachal, Puducherry and TN tested positive for bat coronavirus, but there is no evidence to suggest it can be transmitted to humans.
The ICMR said rapid diagnostic tests in hotspots will help understand how many people have been infected. But WHO says they should only be used in research.
In episode 441 of #CutTheClutter, Shekhar Gupta analyses the testing data from the latest ICMR study as well as studies from Germany’s Heinsberg district, where the virus first began.
One has to be incredibly credulous to buy BJP spin masters’ argument that the government got rid of Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar for harmonious relationship with the judiciary.
Modi government had also made numerous efforts to establish peace with Pakistan but has now adopted a different path, militarily, to establish peace, adds defence minister.
As Narendra Modi becomes India’s second-longest consecutively serving Prime Minister, we look at how he compares with Indira Gandhi across four key dimensions.
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