Acting on the instructions of Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya, a two-day countrywide mock drill began on Monday to check Covid preparedness of hospitals and state of medical infrastructure, even as India reported 5,880 new cases in the past 24 hours. The SoPs for Covid mock drill given to states mentioned that it needs to look into every aspect — …
After eight students of the Dr Ram Manohar Lohiya National Law University in Uttar Pradesh's Lucknow tested positive for Covid-19, the varsity took a call to conduct exams twice. The students of the RML National Law University decided to boycott the exams in view of the increasing coronavirus infection. A week ago, the university conducted exams even when students threatened …
Resident doctors at one of Delhi’s Ram Manohar Lohia Hospital on Saturday said they wanted to be administered the Serum Institute’s Covishield vaccine, instead of being given the Bharat Biotech’s Covaxin vaccine due to “apprehensions over lack of complete trial”. Covaxin, the Covid-19 vaccine produced by Hyderabad-based Bharat Biotech, is still undergoing stage-III trials. We would like to bring to …
The world’s largest vaccination programme will begin at a total of 3,006 session sites across all the States and the Union Territories, which will be connected virtually throughout the exercise. New Delhi Vaccination drive hallmark of self-reliant India, say BJP leaders Hailing Prime Minister Narendra Modi for the launch of the world's largest vaccination drive against COVID-19, top BJP leaders …
The day India began its Covid-19 vaccination drive across the country, resident doctors of Delhi’s premier Ram Manohar Lohia Hospital have shot a letter to the hospital superintendent saying they do not want to take the Bharat Biotech vaccine Covaxin and would prefer the Covishield vaccine of Serum Institute of India. “We would like to bring to your notice that …