The statement by the doctors’ comes on a day when the annual Rath Yatra began in Puri and amid talks of allowing the 'Kanwar Yatra' in Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand.
National Covid-19 Supermodel Committee head Prof. M. Vidyasagar says the projections, based on SUTRA model, have not been shared with the central govt yet.
Talking about ways staff strength can be enhanced, Devi Shetty said state govts should document workforce available and come up with road map to train more doctors and nurses.
Describing the pictures as 'frightening', the govt officials cautioned that not following Covid-appropriate behaviour will nullify the gains made in the management of the pandemic.
Manindra Agarwal, who is working on the mathematical projection of the COVID-19 trajectory, also said Covid can spread faster during the third wave if any new virulent variant emerges.
Chairing a meeting of the Union Council of Ministers, PM Narendra Modi asked them to ensure people are vaccinated and remain vigilant to contain the spread of the virus.
States and Union Territories have also been urged to ensure the five-fold strategy of Covid-appropriate behaviour, test-track-treat and vaccination is followed to prevent a relapse.
At 55.7% and 63.5%, respectively, a mid-term analysis of the AIIMS survey found seroprevalence in children already high and comparable to the adult population.
On 4 April 1968, Bansgaon MP Molhu Prasad delivered a speech in the Lok Sabha on the atrocities against the Scheduled Castes and their negligible representation despite reservation.
Germany’s erstwhile Christian Democratic Union govt, led by Angela Merkel, prevented sale of small arms to police forces in states they perceived had ‘bad human rights record’.
A theme has not yet emerged for BJP & people see lack of a contest, which makes it unexciting. For all these reasons, 2024 is turning out to be an unexpectedly theme-less election.
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