-PTI/ TheWire.in The advisory, dated April 13, came amid reports of a few students testing positive for COVID-19 across the national capital and NCR. New Delhi: The Delhi government has issued a fresh advisory for schools in the national capital, directing them to close the entire premises or specific wings temporarily if any student or staff tests positive for COVID-19. The Directorate of Education (DoE) also said that students and staff must wear...
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Is the govt. doing enough for the Jan Aushadhi scheme?
On Janaushadhi Diwas this year (i.e., March 7th, 2022), Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi stated that the poor and the middle-class benefited from the 'Jan Aushadhi Kendras' that were set up to provide generic drugs at affordable prices. He said that the poor and the middle class saved around Rs.13,000 crore through these stores during the COVID-19 pandemic. In the wake of COVID 19 crisis, the 'Bureau of Pharma PSUs of India'...
More »92% of COVID-19 deaths in 2022 have been among unvaccinated: ICMR -Bindu Shajan Perappadan
-The Hindu ICMR chief Balram Bhargava urged students coming from Ukraine to get vaccinated immediately if they had not already done so. In 2022, 92% of COVID deaths have been in unvaccinated individuals, Director General of the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) Dr. Balram Bhargava said on Thursday. He added that it’s evident that vaccines and the wide vaccination coverage have played a very important role in protecting hundreds of lives. Dr....
More »Can’t learn, can’t work, can’t even cross river: Life in 3 of India’s 4 poorest districts, all in UP -Moushumi Das Gupta
-ThePrint.in ThePrint travelled across 3 UP districts in top 5 of Niti Aayog’s Multi-Dimensional Poverty Index, which measures deprivation in terms of health, education, living standards. Shravasti/Bahraich/Balrampur: Danish Mansoori, 20, thinks he is one of the “lucky ones”. In 2020, he left his hometown Bhinga in Uttar Pradesh’s Shravasti district for a bachelor’s degree in ayurveda, medicine, and surgery (BAMS) from a paramedical college. However, his destination was not Mumbai, Delhi, or...
More »India’s Covid mortality 6 to 8 times higher than official counts: Study -GS Mudur
-The Telegraph If the estimates are correct, it would become the country with the highest death toll, well ahead of around 800,000 deaths so far in the US and 600,000 in Brazil India’s Covid-19 mortality is six to eight times higher than official counts, research released on Wednesday has estimated, reinforcing through a novel methodology earlier suggestions that undercounting had Masked the true ferocity of the second wave. The study has estimated that...
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