DeCEDA/Qrius 2022 was a milestone year for India. India walked into 2022 with an infectious wave of Covid-19 impacting lakhs of people, the wave receded a few weeks into the year. As hopes for a post-pandemic recovery surged, war in Ukraine brought in new challenges for the economy. With supply chains disrupted, global sanctions imposed on Russia, prices of fuel and food shot up. Inflation, already on a high from pent-up...

-The Telegraph Centre’s vaccine policy advisers earlier this week approved release of intranasal vaccine into the private market New Delhi: Indian vaccine maker Bharat Biotech announced on Tuesday that its intranasal Covid-19 vaccine, approved by the Centre as a Booster Dose, would be available at private hospitals for Rs 800 plus additional taxes and service charges per dose. People 18 years or older who have taken two doses of Covaxin, Covishield or any...

-TheWire.in * Neither the CDSCO nor the national advisory group on immunisation was taken into confidence before Prime Minister Modi announced the rollout of Booster Doses. * In reply to a series of RTI applications by The Wire Science, the PMO and the health ministry refused to divulge details of the government’s decision-making. * One reply indicated that the government had misled the Supreme Court about the availability of the minutes of an...

-NDTV.com Delhi logged 965 fresh Covid cases over a 24-hour period on Thursday -- a positivity rate of 4.71 per cent -- while one person died due to the infection, according to data from the health department. New Delhi: The precautionary vaccine dose for Covid will be available free for the 18-59 age group in all hospitals run by the Delhi government. The Arvind Kejriwal government's order -- expected for a while...

-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...