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Passengers departing from India and entering Singapore on VTL flights are still required to furnish a negative PCR or professionally administered ART test within two days of departure.
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In the past week, South Korea has begun asking patients who test positive to simply look after themselves at home, while the country redirects resources to those who are most vulnerable.
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Dr Paul was heading the initiative of negotiating with these three vaccine makers on behalf of the central government. Despite the demands, he said, the government tried to find more ways for these companies to bring the vaccines to India.
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As Hong Kong sinks under its worst wave yet of the coronavirus, overwhelmed hospitals have left patients waiting on sidewalks. People have stood in testing lines that wind across parks and soccer fields. Cases are still growing exponentially, as officials opt for targeted lockdowns rather than a citywide one.
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All the states in India are seeing a sharp decline in active cases. The case count has come down to 3.7 lakh on February 16.
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The COVID-19 cases are under 1 lakh mark in the country for the 10th consecutive day while the active cases continue to dip swiftly
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During the third wave in India, when Omicron cases rose exponentially, Azithral registered a growth of 100% in January over December to net Rs 73 crore sales.
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Meanwhile, the night curfew has been reduced by an hour; it will now be in force from midnight to 5 am.
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Over 70 percent of beneficiaries in the same age group have received the first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine so far, according to Union Health Ministry data.
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On Saturday, the state had logged 4,359 cases – over a thousand less than the previous day – and also reported 32 pandemic-related deaths.
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The Drugs Controller General Of India (DCGI) has already approved Corbevax, which is India's first indigenously developed RBD protein sub-unit vaccine against COVID-19, for restricted use in emergency situation among adults on December 28.
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India logged 44,877 infections, while the death toll climbed to 5,08,665 with 684 fresh fatalities, the data updated on February 13 at 8 am stated.
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Long COVID has been recognised as a major worry since 2020 but the latest research revealing that COVID-19, even in mild cases, significantly raises the cardiovascular disease later, has triggered fresh worries for countries like India that are struggling with a high burden of non-communicable diseases
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The approval came less than a month after Pfizer applied in mid-January, an exceptional speed in a country where foreign drug approvals usually take much longer.
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With the threat posed by the Omicron variant of COVID-19 receding, and the infection rate dwindling in most parts of the world, a number of countries have begun easing the norms for international travel. Here's a look.
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Internationally, it is associated with around 4.95 million deaths a year, and is found to be directly responsible for around 1.27 million deaths a year
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An IMF report says total factor productivity in the Chinese economy has seen a dramatic decline after the Global Financial Crisis
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This will be applicable to both regular and daycare hospitalisations, minor and major surgeries/ interventional, non-interventional procedures and imaging in clinically asymptomatic patients/ including OPD and Emergency patients along with those who were earlier COVID-19 positive but have recovered and been transferred to the inpatient ward for continued treatment
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Department heads shall ensure that employees wear masks all the time and continue to follow COVID-19 appropriate behaviour strictly.
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With this, the OmiSure RT-PCR test kit is now capable of detecting all the sub-lineages of Omicron prolific in India at present, it added.
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Omicron has exposed the weakness in current vaccines and revived interest in an all-protective ‘super jab’
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Russia said on Sunday that India had approved Sputnik Light for emergency use, almost 10 months after it cleared the two-dose Sputnik V.
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With these additions, the overall tally of COVID-19 cases rose to 78,10,136, while the death toll jumped to 1,43,098, the department said in a bulletin.
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More than 1.52 crore (1,52,95,149) precaution doses have been administered to healthcare workers, frontline workers and those aged 60 and above with comorbidities.
