-IndiaSpend.com Where are nutrition programmes failing and why? To accurately understand this and for ideas on how to efficiently target the crisis of malnutrition among Indian children, it is necessary to collect and use data from villages, says a new study Mumbai: India must incorporate village-level data in its policies on child malnutrition to target beneficiaries and their specific needs more effectively, says a new study that analysed data across 597,121 census...
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1.75 crore vaccine doses available with States, says Health Ministry
-The Hindu States urged to increase near-to-home vaccination centres. More than 1.75 crore COVID vaccine doses are still available with the States and Union Territories, the Health Ministry claimed in a release on Monday, adding that more than 2.73 lakh (2,73,970) vaccine doses are in the pipeline and will be received by the States and Union Territories within the next THRee days. “The Central government has so far provided, both THRough the free...
More »COVID-19: Factory turns oxygen plant in Kota entrepreneur's bid to help
-The New Indian Express Rajesh Aggarwal's Akash plant in Bhimpura near Rampur Industrial Area in Kota earlier produced all kinds of gas materials and supplied them in the local market. JAIPUR: Bold individual efforts have stood in good stead for oxygenstarved Rajasthan. An entrepreneur in the academic coaching city of Kota has found a unique way to tackle the crisis. He has got his factory converted into an oxygen plant in a...
More »Chhattisgarh’s excess deaths at least 4.8 times COVID-19 toll -Srinivasan Ramani and Vignesh Radhakrishnan
-The Hindu Second wave figures are from April to May 2021. The number of “excess deaths” registered by the Civil Registration System (CRS) in Chhattisgarh during the second wave (April to May 2021) was 43,062, which is 4.85 times the official reported figure of 8,878 COVID-19 deaths for the same period. If the first THRee months of 2021 are included, the undercount factor decreases to 3.6 times (34,897 excess deaths and 9,677 official...
More »Government used ‘Indian double mutant strain’ in affidavit filed in Supreme Court -Krishnadas Rajagopal
-The Hindu It officially objected to affixing nationality to the virus variant later The government used the term “Indian double mutant strain” in an affidavit filed in the Supreme Court just days before it officially objected to affixing nationality to the virus variant. A May 9 affidavit refers to “Indian double mutant strain” while detailing the steps taken by the Indian Council of Medical Research and the National Institute of Virology to develop...
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