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Even in these six states – Maharashtra, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Gujarat and Odisha – the May 1 drive will be a ‘token’ one. In most of these states, it will be limited to just a few districts.
Employees recuperating at these centres will have access to nurses and doctors, even oxygen, while for more serious cases, the necessary medical help/hospitalisation will be arranged as available. These centres, meant largely for mildly symptomatic/asymptomatic cases, are especially useful for people who live alone or in small homes with family and would otherwise face difficulty in isolating.
The drive would begin in other cities when supplies are made available. "Fortis will administer Covid vaccines for 18+ at its centres across north India from tomorrow," according to a statement on Friday. Fortis said it will administer Covaxin at Rs 1,250 per dose, which includes the cost of the vaccine and administration charges.
Citing that the decision by the Chinese owned airlines suspending its cargo services to India for 15 days "worrisome", the Indian Drug Manufacturers' Association (IDMA) has written to the external affairs ministry to intervene.
A clinical trial was conducted on 100 people in May-June last year and the results were "promising", the company said. The selected 100 participants were randomised into two groups with 50 patients each during the 30 day-trial conducted at Government Medical College Omandurar and Government Estate in Chennai after approval from the Tamil Nadu government.
If resilience is understood as the ability to see positives in the midst of a negative situation, then many of the study's participants demonstrated resilience during that time, the researchers said.
Manipal Education and Medical Group (MEMG) chairman Ranjan Pai, welcoming Columbia Asia team into Manipal family, said: “The focus now is on integration that captures the best from both systems so as to offer a world class experience to all our patients.”
Among other things, Walmart, Flipkart and PhonePe will set up on-site vaccination clinics for associates and their households, as well as for Flipkart and PhonePe's full-time contractors and delivery workers – covering more than two lakh people.
Scientists are studying what led to an unexpected surge, and particularly whether a variant of the novel coronavirus first detected in India is to blame. The variant, named B.1.617, has been reported in some 17 countries, raising global concern.
As supplies run dangerously low and hospitals are forced to turn away the sick, scientists are trying to determine what role variants of the virus might be playing. They are working with precious little data. India, like many other countries, has not built up a robust system to track viruses.
Understanding exponential dynamics makes it easier to know what to expect in the coming phase of the pandemic: Why things will improve quickly as vaccination rates rise and why it’s important to maintain some precautions even after case numbers come down.
At present, India has only 75,000 to 90,000 ICU beds and almost all are already occupied - when the second wave of the pandemic hasn't even reached its peak yet, noted surgeon Dr Devi Prasad Shetty said. India is reporting about 3.5 lakh cases a day, and some experts say the number could go up to 5 lakh cases daily at its peak.
In the study, conducted between May and November 2020, around 10 per cent or 19 out of 189 participants who were previously infected with SARS-CoV-2 (seropositive) became reinfected.
These include 93,67,520 healthcare workers (HCWs) who have taken the first dose and 61,47,918 HCWs who have taken the second dose, 1,23,19,903 FLWs who have received the first dose and 66,12,789 FLWs who have taken the second dose.
The World Health Organisation (WHO) and UNICEF (United Nations Children's Fund) are procuring equipment and supplies, including 7,000 oxygen concentrators and 500 nasal devices for oxygen supply, as well as oxygen generating plants, COVID-19 testing machines, and personal protective kits, Deputy Spokesman for Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said.
With haunting visuals of mass funeral pyres, long lines of ambulances outside overcrowded hospitals, and desperate pleas on social media for oxygen canisters, the unfolding tragedy is prompting some of the biggest corporations to organize aid for a country they view as a crucial market with 1.3 billion consumers.
Faced with an acute shortage of the antiviral drug, India had earlier this month waived import duty on import of Remdesivir and the raw materials used to manufacture it. Official sources here described as a diplomatic victory Remdesivir owner Gilead's decision to donate 450 vials of the drug and also provide raw materials for ramping up local production.
If you are someone who has recovered from covid or if you have someone in your family who has recovered, here is what you can do to overcome the weakness associated with the coronavirus infection.
MSK is ranked as one of the top two hospitals for cancer care in the US for more than 30 years and among the nation's top pediatric hospitals for cancer care, according to US News & World Report, the statement said.
The country saw 3,293 people losing their lives in a span of 24 hours, the highest in a single day so far, pushing the death toll to 2,01,187. Chhattisgarh, Karnataka, Gujarat, Jharkhand, Rajasthan, Punjab, Madhya Pradesh are the other states in the list of 10.
The brokerage said parallels from second wave pattern in 12 countries indicated that India is likely to see a peak in mid June and if one excludes Maharashtra, the country will see a peak in June end. The seven day moving average of daily case addition during the second wave in these countries peaked when reported cumulative infections hit a median level of 2.5% of the population in the respective country.
MSD entered into a voluntary licensing agreement with five Indian drug makers including Sun Pharma, Cipla, Dr. Reddy’s, Emcure and Hetero for molnupiravir, an experimental drug that is currently tested to treat Covid-19 infections. Merck is running the clinical trials for molnupiravir with its partner Ridgeback Biotherapeutics.
The CT count helps determine the viral load present in a covid patient's body. To simplify, lower the CT value, higher is the viral load and higher the CT value, lesser is the viral load said to be in the body.
Turning to the strategy for the administration of vaccines, we need to recognise that the recent decentralisation of purchase and allocation of vaccines has been a mistake. Given that the pandemic constitutes a national emergency, optimal response to it requires planning, coordination and prioritisation of vaccine delivery at the national level.
Developed by Bharat Biotech in partnership with National Institute of Virology and the Indian Council of Medical Research, Covaxin was approved for emergency use on January 3. Trial results later showed the vaccine has an efficacy of 78 per cent.
The government's efforts to mitigate the oxygen crisis that’s affecting Covid-19 patients may cause a shortage of nitrogen, a gas critical for the electronics manufacturing industry.
Prices of oxygen concentrators, oximeters and nebulisers have surged 50-100% over the past ten days, with a huge demand-supply mismatch amid the second wave of the coronavirus pandemic.
"This is a really important study, showing that a single dose of SARS-CoV2 vaccine is insufficient to generate protective antibody responses in patients treated with anti-TNF drugs," said Nick Powell, co-senior author of the study from Imperial's Department of Metabolism, Digestion and Reproduction.
MSD has decided to enter into non-exclusive voluntary licensing agreements for molnupiravir with five established Indian generic manufacturers -- Cipla, Dr Reddy's Laboratories, Emcure Pharmaceuticals, Hetero Labs and Sun Pharmaceutical Industries, it added.
The Maharashtra government has floated a global tender to procure 10 lakh Remdesivir vials, 40,000 oxygen concentrators and 25,000 metric tonnes of oxygen in the wake of a surge in COVID-19 cases, state Health Minister Rajesh Tope said on Tuesday.
Drug firm Gilead Sciences said it is taking several steps to expand the availability of antiviral drug remdesivir in India and will also be donating a minimum of 4.5 lakh vials of 'Veklury' to the Indian government as COVID-19 cases in the country surge.
The French pharmaceutical company Sanofi will help manufacture the Moderna coronavirus vaccine beginning in September, joining other companies assisting with the production of one of the three vaccines now approved in the US.
In September 2020, Dr Reddys and RDIF entered into a partnership to conduct clinical trials of SputnikV, developed by the Gamaleya National Research Institute of Epidemiology and Microbiology and the rights for distribution of the first 100 million doses in India.
Oxygen’s history in medicine begins in the 1770s, when the Swedish pharmacist Karl Scheele and the British scientist Joseph Priestly independently isolated oxygen gas. Priestly unfairly received the lion’s share of the credit.
After the current spike has peaked, people will still need to be inoculated at a rapid pace to flatten the curve and avert a third buildup. And that’s when the folly of charging Rs 600 or Rs 1,200 for a life-saving vaccine, in a country where the working class was struggling to buy Rs 5 biscuits even before the pandemic, may become clear.
Remdesivir is approved in India for restricted emergency use for the treatment of suspected or laboratory-confirmed COVID-19 in adults and children hospitalised with severe disease.
They said Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government would instead aim to support domestic vaccine makers by guaranteeing purchases from them. The government this month paid Indian vaccine makers in advance, for the first time, for supply of doses.
The border guarding force, ITBP, designated by the Union home ministry as the nodal agency to run the facility, has said there would be no walk-in admissions to the centre. Admission at this centre will be made after approval by district surveillance officers in Delhi.
"We are having a registry of healthcare providers, hospitals and laboratories, and together with them, we can develop a platform for health services delivery to achieve the objective of the national digital health mission," the official said.
Abevmy is approved for treatment in metastatic colorectal carcinoma, metastatic breast cancer, non small-cell lung carcinoma, glioblastoma, ovarian, cervical and renal cancer as part of a specific regimen.
