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30 Jun

Nissan India launches ‘COVID 2.0’ campaign

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As the country gradually unlocks, Nissan India launches an integrated general awareness and safety campaign with Kapil Dev that aims to educate & empower India against COVID-19 through Cricket, a force that unifies the country. The campaign hopes to amplify the message of safety by urging Indians to come together as the country faces one if its toughest matches yet on health and safety. The 7-video series campaign is available on all digital-led platforms, with a new video going live every third day. Nissan India has chosen the iconic Cricket ambassador of India, Kapil Dev, as the voice of the…

29 Jun

HC warns Mumbai police: Don’t spare the ‘big fish’ in fake vaccine cases

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The Bombay High Court stated on Tuesday that the Mumbai police must find the "big fish" in cases of COVID-19 vaccination programmes in the city and should not spare them. A court-appointed panel of Chief Justice Dipankar Datta and Justice G S Kulkarni also ordered the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) to inform the court of any steps the civic body plans to take to test those duped by such camps for antibodies and any negative health effects caused by the fake vaccine. The court was hearing a number of public interest litigations (PILs) aimed at improving citizen access to COVID-19…

29 Jun

FOGSI and USAID spearhead ‘Pankh Initiative’

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The Federation of Obstetric and Gynaecological Societies of India (FOGSI), in partnership with the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), launched the ‘Pankh Initiative’ to generate greater awareness about reproductive health issues among youth. Pankh, which means “wings'' in Hindi, aims to create awareness about safe sexual behaviour and proper contraceptive use without stigma or judgment. The Initiative will introduce the ‘Talk Bejhijhak’ (talk without hesitation) campaign to facilitate non-judgemental, technically accurate conversations between FOGSI member physicians across India and youth. The campaign will include an anonymous helpline (1800 258 0001) where trained counsellors can answer questions and help facilitate…

29 Jun

Uttarakhand govt issues COVID guidelines for Char Dham Yatra despite HC’s stay on pilgrimage

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As per the Covid guidelines issued by the Uttarakhand government says that the Char Dham Yatra will commence from July 1. However, this doesn't sit right with Uttarakhand High Court's recent order against holding Char Dham Yatra this year. The Uttarakhand HC had on Monday stayed state Cabinet's decision of arrange the pilgrimage with limited number of people. The Uttarakhand High Court had instructed the state government to make a standard operating procedure for the Char Dham Yatra,and asking not to do like Kumbh Mela . The court had observed SOPs were submitted before Kumbh Mela was responsible for the spike…

28 Jun

Delhi Schools Can Charge Fee For Now, Supreme Court Refuses To Interfere into this matter

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The Supreme Court has refused to stay a Delhi High Court order cancelling that schools in delhi could not collect annual charges or development fees until they physically re-open. The High Court quashed Directorate of Education (DoE) orders issued in April and August 2020. The High Court's order was challenged by the Delhi government and others govts, including students and parents, as well as being challenged in the top court. The Supreme Court today said that the High Court was examining the original order - issued by a single-judge bench .The single judge verdict had quashed two office orders of April…

28 Jun

Maharashtra strengthens COVID-19 restrictions in response to ‘Delta Plus’ variant concerns, signalling the start of the third wave

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The state of Maharashtra has strengthened restrictions with effect from Monday, amid worries of a third wave of coronavirus and cases of its highly virulent 'Delta Plus' form emerging. The new decision will have an impact on places such as Nagpur, Thane, and Pune, which have seen more relaxations than Mumbai, and remains under 'level 3' limitations despite qualifying for 'level 1', it allows all curbs to be withdrawn. The Maharashtra government had announced a'state-level trigger' for placing limits in administrative units regardless of the weekly positive rate or oxygen bed occupancy percentage earlier on Friday. The Maharashtra government implemented…

28 Jun

25% of youth, 50% of 45+ vaccinated in Delhi

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25 per cent of the youth in Delhi has been vaccinated with a single dose of Covid-19 vaccine while the primer dose immunisation among the age group of 45+ years has reached 50 per cent. The development has come after a record vaccination of 2,07,559 people was done, out of which more than 1.5 lakh doses were administered to the youth. 73, 29,652 people have been given vaccine doses in Delhi. Of them, more than 56 lakh people have received the first dose and more than 17 lakh people have received both the shots of two-dose regimen Covid-19 vaccines. The…

27 Jun

Vaccination along with safety measures are necessary when it comes to fighting the Delta Plus: WHO

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"Vaccination plus masks, because just a vaccine is not enough with 'Delta.' We need to make an effort over a short period of time, otherwise there would be a lockdown," Vujnovic said on the Soloviev Live YouTube show. She explained that vaccination is essential because it lowers the probability of spreading the virus and lowers the risks of severe disease. However, "additional measures" will probably be required as well, Vujnovic warned. Earlier in this month, the WHO included the Delta variant in its list of coronavirus variants of concern as the strain had become prevalent and has caused a resurgence…

26 Jun

COVID-19 vaccines do not cause infertility

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We are soon going to have the world’s first DNA-plasmid vaccine by Zydus Cadilla which has been Made in India. The other vaccine that we can expect soon is Biological E – a protein sub-unit vaccine, informs Dr Narendra Kumar Arora, Chairman of COVID-19 Working Group of the National Technical Advisory Group on Immunization (NTAGI). He further informs that the trials of these vaccines have been quite encouraging. “We are hopeful that this vaccine will be available by September. The Indian m-RNA vaccine which can be stored at temperature 2 – 8 Degree Celsius should also be available by September.…

26 Jun

BJP leader Suvendu Adhikari on Friday writes a letter to the Union Health Minister seeks an investigation into Kolkata vaccine scam

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BJP leader Suvendu Adhikari on Friday wrote an open letter to Union Health Minister Dr. Harsh Vardhan seeks an investigation into Kolkata vaccine scam.In the letter, Adhikari charged that the Kolkata vaccine fraud would not have taken place without the knowledge of local police and authorities. He wrote the major question is were this shots really the covishiled?If these not then we should take immidiate action against this. The main person behind this case was earlier arrested for allegedly posing as an IAS officer and organised a COVID-19 vaccination camp in the city's Kasba area, where the actor Mimi Chakroborty…