13% of India’s under-5 deaths are due to pneumonia, half of them pneumococcal. Immunisation programme will be expanded beyond 5 pilot states using indigenous vaccines.
Johns Hopkins report lauds India for achieving global target of 90% coverage for 3 of 5 vaccines required to cut deaths of children under 5 years of age.
Study by researchers from US, Italy, Canada, Paris says patients with ‘life-threatening’ Covid pneumonia were found to have autoantibodies that attack the body.
In episode 417 of #CutTheClutter, Shekhar Gupta talks about how Donald Trump and Boris Johnson have stopped ridiculing coronavirus. And is India testing too little?
National Health Profile data, released Wednesday, says cost of treatment has been on the rise in India, which has led to inequity in access to healthcare.
DMK govt accuses Centre of withholding funds, tightening borrowing, unilateral deductions from state accounts. Says Centre's accounting & funding decisions have 'artificially inflated' debt burden.
This is the game every nation is now learning to play. Some are finding new allies or seeing value among nations where they’d seen marginal interest. The starkest example is India & Europe.
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