Maharashtra government had imposed a total lockdown of seven days in Amravati city and Achalpur town on February 21 owing to a large number of COVID-19 cases being reported from the two zones

Fire at Serum Institute: 5 dead, company to pay Rs 25 lakh compensation to families Serum Institute of India (SII) Chairman & Managing Director Cyrus Poonawalla on Thursday expressed sorrow on the loss of lives due to the fire that broke out at its under-construction facility in Pune. He said that the company will be offering a compensation of Rs 25 lakh to each of the families of the deceased, in addition to the mandated amount as per the norms. SII is manufacturing the Covishield vacc...

Comprehensive contact tracing has been initiated for co-travellers, family contacts and others.  Genome sequencing on other specimens is going on, says the government

Results of the 15 samples that had tested positive for coronavirus on arrival in Ahmedabad from the UK are currently pending with the National Institute of Virology (NIV) in Pune

CSIR-CCMB in Hyderabad, which is among the ten research institutes tracing the new Covid-19 strain in India, says the new strain has not worsened the Covid-19 symptoms so far in India but there's a need to keep a tab on other new variants that might emerge

The new coronavirus strain has so far been detected in the US, Denmark, Netherlands, Australia, Italy, Sweden, France, Spain, Switzerland, Germany, Canada, Japan, Lebanon and Singapore

Until now, six individuals have shown traces of the new variant of coronavirus in India. All these individuals have been kept under isolation in designated health care facilities by respective state governments. Their close contacts have also been put under quarantine

All the passengers travelling from or transiting through airports in the UK and disembarking in India would be subjected to RT-PCR test on arrival

The health ministry while issuing fresh guidelines has said that passengers who travelled from or transited through the UK in the past four weeks will be required to declare their travel history of the past 14 days as well as fill up a Self-Declaration Form to be screened for COVID-19

Medical journal Lancet pointed out that surprisingly the COVID-19 vaccine candidate was 90 per cent effective when a low dose was followed by a full dose

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This is the second all-party meeting called by the government on coronavirus, which has affected over 94 lakh people across India, since the beginning of the pandemic.

It has been found that one of the vaccine's dosing regimens may be around 90% effective and if this dosing regime is used, more people could be vaccinated with planned vaccine supply, says AstraZeneca

These centres will provide medical support to associates and their spouse, children and parents/parents-in-law, who are asymptomatic or mildly COVID-19 positive with no other co-morbidities or medical history/complications

Coronavirus vaccine: The market for coronavirus vaccine in India could potentially be $6 billion in terms of sales for the coming three years

The portable antigen tests, which can deliver results within 15 minutes and will sell for $5, received emergency use authorization from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday

SII, the world's largest vaccine maker has signed an agreement to manufacture the potential vaccine developed by the Jenner Institute of Oxford University in collaboration with British-Swedish pharma company AstraZeneca

As the first step towards timely identification, prompt isolation and effective treatment, higher testing also results in limiting the spread of infection

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