-The Indian Express This, despite it being contract-manufactured by Pune’s Serum Institute of India whose CEO Adar Poonawalla had said that the firm was making a profit even at a PRIce of Rs 150 per dose. At Rs 600 per dose, Indians getting inoculated with Covishield at PRIvate hospitals from May 1 could end up paying the highest PRIce in the world for this vaccine developed by the University of Oxford and...
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Twitter takes down tweets from MP, MLA, editor criticising handling of pandemic upon government request -Aroon Deep
-Medianama.com Twitter has complied with government requests to censor 52 tweets that mostly criticised India’s handling of the second surge of the COVID-19 pandemic. These tweets, which are now inaccessible to Indian users of the social media website, include posts by Revanth Reddy, a sitting Member of Parliament; Moloy Ghatak, a West Bengal state minister; actor Vineet Kumar Singh; and two filmmakers, Vinod KaPRI and Avinash Das. MediaNama has seen public disclosures...
More »Delhi, UP, Gujarat, Haryana oxygen demand outstrips supply; PM Modi holds crisis meeting -Harikishan Sharma , Deeptiman Tiwary and Kaunain Sheriff M
-The Indian Express Records show, the demand for medical oxygen has increased by 18 per cent over the last six days across 12 states, which account for 83 per cent of active cases in the country. With four of the states worst hit by Covid battling a critical shortfall between demand and supply of oxygen in their hospitals, PRIme Minister Narendra Modi told officials during a high-level meeting Thursday to ramp up...
More »How China contained virus: There are lessons for India in its centralised planning, local action -Shruti Jargad
-The Indian Express The central leadership led by President Xi was quick in acknowledging this effort of the “first line of defence”. It made provisions for the benefit of the workers like subsidies, provision of health equipment, insurance, publicity, and other institutional support. In his address to the nation on APRIl 20, PRIme Minister Narendra Modi made exhortations for the youth to form small committees to ensure adherence to COVID-19 restrictions. He...
More »Another Mass Exodus of Migrant Workers Likely if Delhi's Lockdown Persists -Gaurav Vivek Bhatnagar
-TheWire.in With a large number of units in the unorganised sector closing down and few providing residential facilities to workers, many have already started leaving. New Delhi: As the Delhi government announced a six-day lockdown from Monday to combat the spread of COVID-19, a large number of migrant workers began leaving for their home towns and villages – bringing back memories of a similar crisis in March 2020. Workers fear that the...
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