-PTI/ NDTV.com In the last 24 hours, 65 new Covid cases have been confirmed in Gautam Buddh Nagar, 20 in Ghaziabad and 10 in Lucknow. Lucknow: The Uttar Pradesh government on Monday made it compulsory for people to wear a face mask in public places in capital Lucknow and six NCR districts amid a rise in Covid cases in some adjoining states, an official said. The increase in Covid cases has had an...
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Covishield, Covaxin to now cost private hospitals Rs 225 per dose -Milan Sharma
-IndiaToday.in Private hospitals will now be able to buy a single dose of Covid-19 vaccines Covishield and Covaxin at Rs 225. A single dose of the Serum Institute of India's Covishield and Bharat Biotech's Covaxin will now cost private hospitals Rs 225. Private hospitals will charge Rs 150 for administering the dose. Adar Poonawalla, CEO of SII, said in a tweet on Saturday that the vaccine maker has decided to slash the prices...
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-TheCitizen.in Improved antenatal care in Meghalaya A recent report submitted on March 20 to the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) from the state of Meghalaya showed that 877 newborns, and 61 pregnant women died during the pandemic. The pregnant women decided against hospital delivery out of fear of contracting Covid. A decade ago, infant mortality in Meghalaya was the same as the all-India average, at 47 deaths per 1000 births. While it has...
More »UP Elections: Amid Livelihood Crisis, Which Party Will Nishads Trust This Time ? -Abdul Alim Jafri
-Newsclick.in The Nishad community says their people are no more awarded with fishing and sand mining contracts, which is posing a major threat to their traditional livelihood. Sonbhadra: On April 3, 2020, when the nationwide lockdown was in place to prevent the spread of Coronavirus, Anil Kumar Sahni, 26, had stepped out with his cycle cart to sell vegetables. As he reached the road passing through his hamlet, he was caught by...
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-The Hindu There is absolutely no way to forecast the timing, says Professor behind SUTRA model Independent experts have criticised a recent modelling study from a group of researchers at the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur that predicts a fourth COVID wave in India around June. The study, uploaded on the preprint server, Medrxiv, which hosts scientific work that is yet to be published in a peer-reviewed journal forecasts the wave to begin...
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