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India on Friday reported 16,561 Covid cases and 49 fatalities. The cumulative caseload is 4,42,23,557 (1,23,535 active cases) and 5,26,928 fatalities Worldwide: Over 588 million cases and over 6.43 million fatalities. Vaccination in India: Over 2.07 billion doses. Worldwide: Over 12 billion doses. A new at-home test to check your immunity against Covid By now, a great […]
UK may require vaccine passports for big venues this month
By Administrator_ India Capital Sands The U.K. is considering a requirement for vaccine passports to be shown in order to access large venues as early as this month but has yet to decide whether to roll out jabs to healthy schoolchildren. “We are looking at, by the end of September when everyone has had a […]
Pfizer and Astra vaccines less effective after 90 days, says study
By Administrator_ India Capital Sands A British public health study has found that protection from either of the two most commonly used Covid-19 vaccines against the now prevalent Delta variant of the coronavirus weakens within three months. It also found that those who get infected after receiving two shots of either the Pfizer-BioNTech or the AstraZeneca vaccine […]
Pfizer, Moderna raise prices for Covid-19 vaccines in European Union
By Administrator_ India Capital Sands Pfizer Inc and Moderna Inc have raised the prices of their Covid-19 vaccines in their latest European Union supply contracts, the Financial Times reported on Sunday. The new price for the Pfizer shot was 19.50 euros ($23.15) against 15.50 euros previously, the newspaper said, citing portions of the contracts seen. The price of a Moderna […]
India’s first Covid-19 patient tests positive again for coronavirus
By Administrator_ India Capital Sands A woman medico, who was India’s first COVID-19 case, has tested positive again for the virus, health authorities said here on Tuesday. “She is reinfected with COVID-19. Her RT-PCR is positive, the antigen is negative. She is asymptomatic,” Thrissur DMO Dr. K J Reena told PTI. Her samples were tested […]
India registers record 4,205 COVID-19 deaths in 24 hours, adds 3.48 lakh new cases
By Administrator_ India Capital Sands India witnessed a record 4,205 COVID-19 deaths in the last 24 hours and registered 3.48 lakh new cases, as per the Union Health Ministry’s data on Wednesday (May 12, 2021). India’s death toll has now climbed to 2.54 lakh, while the total caseload has mounted to 2.33 crore after 3,48,421 […]
India closing in on Brazil in daily coronavirus deaths :Second wave
By Administrator_ India Capital Sands India’s rising death toll is putting it on course to become the country with the highest daily death toll, shows an analysis of international numbers collated by tracker ‘Our World in Data. This comes even as both countries have seen a surge in the number of daily deaths recorded. The […]
Rajasthan issues new COVID-19 guidelines, curfew in all cities from 6 pm to 6 am
By Administrator_ India Capital Sands Amid a fresh surge in COVID-19 infections, the Rajasthan government on April 14 has issued new guidelines to curb the pace of virus transmission. A strict curfew would be observed in all cities in the state from 6 pm to 6 am, the order said. All market places across Rajasthan […]
Covid-19 vaccine shortage: Maharashtra, Centre in a war of words
By Administrator_ India Capital Sands The Centre today hit back at the Maharashtra government and accused it of creating panic and spreading lies after it raised serious concerns about the Covid-19 vaccine shortage in the state. The Centre’s reaction came hours after Maharashtra health minister Rajesh Tope said that the state had barely 2-3 days of vaccine stock left […]
Russia’s COVID-19 vaccine Sputnik V makes headway in India
By Administrator _India Capital Sands The Drug Controller General of India on October 17 gave Dr Reddy’s Laboratories the permission to conduct late-stage clinical trials for Russia’s COVID-19 Sputnik V vaccine in the country. The nod came after the Hyderabad-based company submitted a reworked application to the Drugs Controller General of India (DCGI) on October 13 with more information […]