On Monday, The Union Ministry of education announced a detailed SOP for resuming schools and universities in the nation. In unlock 5.0, the Centre has permitted universities and schools to reopen in a phased way, beginning from October 15. The states have the power to choose whether they need to reopen schools from the following ...

On Wednesday, Indian government introduced new guidelines called Unlock 5.0 to selectively reopen schools, colleges. multiplexes, theme parks, and swimming pools depending on the infection rate in a state. The Ministry of Home Affairs specified that the new guidelines of limited relaxations would be applicable from Oct. 15 and only in non- containment zones. Ministry ...

As India lost thousands to the pandemic outbreak and many to hunger .caused by loss of job and loss of economic growth coupled, Congress MP Shahi Tharoor hit out at Narendra Modi led government in the Centre for its “utter mismanagement” of the coronavirus pandemic outbreak. Referring to the country’s deteriorating growth and escalating virus ...

Feluda is an indigenous kit that utilizes CRISPR gene-editing technology to distinguish and find the genetic material of Sars-CoV2, which causes Coronavirus. It has been endorsed by the legislature of India.  Feluda (test kit) has been created by senior scientists Dr. Souvik Maiti and Dr. Debojyoti Chakraborty at the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research-Institute ...

India is looking for successfully performing covid-19 vaccine candidate all across the world to strike a deal with the best ones. So far, India’s list of possible acquisitions include the under-trail candidates being developed by UK’s Oxford-AstraZeneca and United States’s Moderna-NIAID. Besides, the government is also closely observing the progress of vaccine candidates being developed ...

India will be using a digital infrastructure for the dissemination and inventory management of the novel Covid-19 virus vaccine once it becomes available. It is also devising a fool proof method of procurement including both indigenous and international. This will also include guiding principles to prioritize focus groups. The national expert group on vaccine administration ...

Union Health Minister Dr Harsh Vardhan on Sunday stated that the Indian population is still far from achieving herd immunity against COVID-19 as indicated by early findings of the second Sero survey conducted by the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) across the country. “The findings of the second sero survey are going to be ...

On Friday, The Lancet editorial raised concerns about Indian government misleading its people by promoting false optimistic regarding the current state of coronavirus crisis in the country. The medical journal said that Indian leaders should not ignore or snub scientific evidences especially when the country needs it to deal with rising infection cases. The editorial ...

On Wednesday, PM Narendra Modi in a video conference urged the Chief Ministers of seven covid affected states’ to do a critical evaluation of the 1-2-day lockdowns that few other states have been implementing and the disadvantageous of this on economic activity. He stressed that the states should strengthen their contact tracing strategies to contain ...

 In a bid to control the spread of the novel corona virus, state government of Guwahati has decided to give away free pulse- oximeters and a first line of supportive medical aid to all those patients who have decided to stay indoors and observe the 15-day quarantine guideline. The state government has also announced that ...