Tag: COVID-19
Outlook 2022: Healthcare leaders call for imbibing cutting-edge tech advancements
With the digital technologies like extended reality, cloud systems, big data, and artificial intelligence taking the center stage, the pandemic has almost entirely changed how the healthcare industry in India operates
FICCI President hails expansion of Covid-19 vaccination, calls it a significant...
Opening the Booster or Precaution dose for the Healthcare and Frontline workers as well as the senior citizens with comorbidities will help us protect our high-risk population given the rising concerns from the forecasted 3rd COVID wave, said FICCI President, Sanjiv Mehta
COVAXIN approval for kids: India to vaccinate children aged 15-18 years...
As a precautionary measure, the healthcare workers and doctors will be given additional Covid-19 vaccine doses from January 10, 2022. Also, the people with co-morbidities and 60 years of age will get booster doses
People’s support critical for curtailing further spread of Omicron
As per Dr Poonam Khetrapal Singh, Regional Director, WHO South-East Asia Region, people must contribute towards successful implementation of the various measures that countries have put in place at national and sub-national levels in view of the emergence of new variants and holiday and festive season
Asia Pacific makes steady progress against malaria during the pandemic
India continues to reduce malaria cases, while most significant burden has been reported in Papua New Guinea, with high cases and stalled progress. There is a significant progress across the Greater Mekong sub-region despite COVID-19.....................
FIND & CSIR-IGIB partner to strengthen genomic surveillance of SARS-CoV-2 in...
The partnership will serve to optimize and scale the capacity needed to identify SARS-CoV-2 variants of concern (VOC) and variants of interest (VOI)
Covid-19 vaccine booster dose could help mitigate the pandemic impact: Experts
India has achieved over 100 crore vaccinations but still only 38% of the population has achieved full vaccination. Major emphasis to be put on the frontline workers and the vulnerable population like elderly persons and children....................
Thermo Fisher Scientific claims its TaqPath COVID-19 tests can detect Omicron...
The TaqPath COVID-19 assays detect SARS-CoV-2 infections by identifying the presence of three gene targets from the orf1a/b, S, and N regions of the virus
Covishield vaccine 63.1% effective on Covid-19 delta variant: THSTI study
Researchers at Translational Health Science and Technology Institute (THSTI) evaluated the real-world vaccine effectiveness of Covishield during the SARS-CoV-2 infection surge between April and May, 2021, in India
Lung fibrosis is seen reversed in COVID patients, say experts
It has been found that a unique kind of fibrosis that is developing in COVID patients in the recovery phase and found to be reversible.........................