\"Buy two N95 or KN95 masks. Use one today; leave the other in a PAPER bag for tomorrow. Keep alternating every 24 hours,\" said Faheem Younus, Chief of Infectious Diseases at University of Maryland Upper Chesapeake Health

Congress accused the government for not providing adequate funds to state governments that were fighting a two front war  despite accumulating hundreds of crores of rupees in the PM CARES Fund

The plan is to help establish one or more technology transfer hubs that will transfer a comprehensive technology package and provide appropriate training to interested manufacturers

The United Kingdom government has cleared Nirav Modi's extradition to India. UK home secretary Priti Patel gave the nod for the extradition in connection with the diamond merchant's involvement in the Rs 14,000-crore Punjab National Bank fraud; Businesses owned by women entrepreneurs in India are likely to grow up to 90 per cent in the next five years, according to a new study which also notes that the uptake of government schemes supporting such entrepreneurs is quite low; Serum Institute of India CEO Adar Poonawalla, on Friday, urged US President Joe Biden to lift the embargo on vaccine raw materials exported out of the country so that vaccine production can be ramped up. Watch this and more on News Blast.Also Read: Indian pharma exports touch record $24.44 bn in pandemic year; see 18.07% growth

The number of lives lost, as compiled by Johns Hopkins University, is about equal to the population of Kyiv, Ukraine; Caracas, Venezuela; or metropolitan Lisbon, Portugal

The United States earlier this week paused distribution of the J&J vaccine to investigate six cases of a rare brain blood clot known as cerebral venous sinus thrombosis (CVST), accompanied by a low blood platelet count, in U.S. women under age 50

The Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) said around 90,000 pregnant women had been vaccinated in the United States, mainly with the two American vaccines, without any safety concerns being raised

The report has gone against the predominant scientific view which says that coronavirus spreads through smaller aerosols that remain suspended in the air or through fomites

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The Covid situation will be closely monitored and a final decision on the conduct of the board examinations will be taken by the 1st week of June 2021.

UK home secretary Priti Patel gave the nod for Nirav Modi's extradition in connection with the PNB fraud case

The Centre is providing financial support as grant to vaccine manufacturing facilities to enhance their production capacities.

The mapping of these areas listed almost 3,300 women entrepreneurs who were classified into three categories--those engaged in manufacturing, retail and service delivery enterprises. Out of these, 1,235 women entrepreneurs were sampled for the study

A new variant has been designated a Variant Under Investigation (VUI) by PHE. The variant, first detected in India, includes a number of mutations including E484Q, L452R, and P681R, the PHE weekly report said

Johnson was to spend a few days in India starting April 26 as part of a planned itinerary, which is expected to include finalising a UK-India Enhanced Trade Partnership

The double mutation happens when two mutated strains of a virus come together and form a third strain. In India,  E484Q and L452R are the two mutated strains that have combined and form a new strain, now classified as B.1.617

The study, led by researchers at the University of Oxford in the UK, counted the number of cerebral venous thrombosis (CVT) cases diagnosed in the two weeks following the diagnosis of COVID-19, or after the first dose of a vaccine

The development comes after DCGI (Drugs Controller General of India) gave its nod to foreign-made and approved COVID-19 vaccines following a massive spike in coronavirus cases

Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga was speaking to reporters at the prime minister's official residence ahead of his trip to the United States for a meeting with President Joe Biden

India will provide approvals to COVID-19 vaccines approved by health regulators like US FDA within 3 days; detailled guidelines to come soon