Risk of death following vaccination negligible: Govt
New Delhi: A government panel studying Covid vaccine severe adverse effects has confirmed the first death due to anaphylaxis following inoculation, while the Centre on Tuesday said 488 deaths recorded between January 16 and June 7 may not be linked to vaccination and that a detailed causality analysis will be conducted. The National AEFI Committee […]
Covid-19 Unlock: Personnel Ministry asks senior officials to report for work
New Delhi: All officers of at the level of Under Secretary and above have been asked to attend offices on all working days while persons with disabilities and pregnant women employees would continue to work from home, a Personnel Ministry order issued on Monday said. As regards government servants of the level below Under Secretaries, […]
About 20.8 pc elders surveyed lost family members, friends: Report
New Delhi: About 20.8 per cent elders have lost either family members or friends due to COVID-19 and most of them believe that a better medical and health infrastructure could have saved these lives, according to a report that surveyed 3,526 elderly people in the country. Marking the “World Elder Abuse Awareness Day”, HelpAge India […]
Clinical trial for Covaxin: Candidates in 6-12 age group to be recruited today
New Delhi:The recruitment for the clinical trial of the country’s first indigenously-developed COVID-19 vaccine, Covaxin, among children in the age group of 6-12 years will begin at the AIIMS here from Tuesday. This will be followed by the clinical trial of children in the age-group of 2-6 years. The enrolment of children volunteers aged 12-18 […]
Covid-19: Novavax says its vaccine demonstrates 90 pc overall efficacy
New Delhi: Novavax Inc, which has a vaccine manufacturing agreement with Serum Institute of India, on Monday said its COVID-19 vaccine candidate was highly effective with 90.4 per cent efficacy overall and also showed high efficacy against predominantly circulating variants. The vaccine candidate ‘NVX-CoV2373’ demonstrated 100 per cent protection against moderate and severe disease, 90.4 […]
Army distributes essential COVID-related items to admin at Udhampur
Jammu: The Army’s Northern Command on Monday handed over a large number of COVID-19 related material including oxygen concentrators, PPE kits, face masks and steam inhalers to Udhampur district administration, a defence spokesman said. This was the second time in the past three weeks that the Udhampur-based Northern Command provided such a large quantity of […]