India to meet WHO trans fat limit a year in advance
While trans fat is naturally present in red meat and dairy products, the focus is on restricting the industrially produced
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ACTREC’s automated tool makes SARS-CoV-2 genome mutation analysis easy
The IPD tool has been already designed to perform analysis of diverse genomic datasets, which came handy while analysing diverse
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Reneging on the ‘no-profit pledge’ to supply Oxford vaccine
On the say day the release was sent out announcing the partnership with AstraZeneca, Oxford University also tweeted saying that the
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With more vaccines than vaccinations, India exports Covishield before expiry date
It is true that while the U.S. took 10 days to breach the one-million mark and the U.K. took 18
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New challenges in conducting COVID-19 vaccine trials in India
The Ahmedabad-based Zydus Cadilla only recently got the regulatory permission to carry out phase-3 trial and has to begin the
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With hasty approval, India squanders an opportunity to build trust in COVID-19 vaccine
Transparency in the approval process is vital for gaining the trust of people so that they don’t hesitate to take
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Is the first coronavirus wave coming to an end in India?
The number of daily fresh coronavirus cases has been steadily dropping from a peak of nearly 98,000 cases on September 16 to below 25,000 daily cases in the last few days with no spike seen nationally. The cases have been reducing despite the festival season, winter, large gatherings and not so good adherence to non-pharmaceutical interventions. However, the cumulative test positivity rate nationally is 6.1% as on December 23, which suggests we aren’t near the end of the first wave immediately.
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COVID-19: Challenges in achieving herd immunity through vaccination
But the government’s idea of vaccinating a “critical mass of people” for the purpose of breaking the virus transmission chain
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Cannot emphatically say India has passed the COVID-19 peak
In a conversation, Dr. Gautam Menon, Professor of Physics and Biology at Ashoka University and co-author of COVID-19 modelling studies,
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Pandemic causes 25% dip in TB notifications in India
While India accounts for 26% of TB cases in the world, the TB notifications during the period January-June 2020 in
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Reopening schools in India before coronavirus spread is reduced can be disastrous
At a time when coronavirus cases in India are showing a rising trend and when daily fresh cases reported
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India will cross two million coronavirus cases today
India reported one million cases of novel coronavirus and 25,000 deaths on July 16. In all likelihood, India will
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On August 2, India recorded the highest daily fresh coronavirus cases in the world
The total number of novel coronavirus cases reported in India crossed 1.8 million on August 2, while it also
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