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Covid vaccines IP waiver is 'in direct response to an emergency': Ramaphosa

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa has dedicated his weekly letter to the nation to the issue of waiving intellectual property rights on Covid-19 vaccines, saying it's necessary at this time

Karnataka logs in 39,305 Covid-19 cases, 596 deaths in a single day

Karnataka logged 39,305 new Covid cases in a day, with 16,747 in Bengaluru, while 596 patients succumbed to the infection, said the state's health bulletin on Monday

DATA STORY: India's Covid tally up by 366,161; sharp drop in new active cases

India has so far administered 170,176,603 vaccine doses. That is 807.39 per cent of its total caseload, and 12.23 per cent of its population

BMC to procure Covid-19 shots, devises steps to make vaccination accessible

The corporation also plans to set up vaccination centres in each of 24 municipal wards and has also issued vaccination guidelines for housing societies

Jab shortage forces health startups to defer plans to vaccinate India Inc

Enterprises like 1mg, PharmEasy and Practo had drawn up initiatives to inoculate over a million employees from some of the country's top companies

Covid crisis: India administered 170 mn doses fastest in world, says govt

The vaccination drive in India was rolled out on January 16 with health care workers getting inoculated

Tens of millions on the fringes sink into poverty as Covid wrecks India

The government estimates India's gross domestic product shrank 8 per cent in the year ended March, its biggest contraction since 1952

No room for judicial intervention: Centre justifies Covid vax policy in SC

The Centre has justified in the Supreme Court the COVID-19 vaccination policy saying its response and strategy is completely driven by expert medical and scientific opinion which leaves little room for judicial interference and emphasised that citizens of all age groups will get free vaccination throughout the country.

84% in Maharashtra want lockdown curbs to continue till May 31: Study

43 per cent said that all formats of retail should be permitted to home deliver products

Air India cancels Covid-19 vaccination camp due to shortage of vaccines

Air India had earlier said that it will vaccinate all its employees by the end of May

The second wave: Govt eases procurement norms for key Covid-19 supplies

Bank guarantees have been waived off for all procurement

Bengal logs record 134 deaths, 19,445 new cases; positivity rate at 31%

West Bengal on Monday reported record 134 Covid-19 deaths, besides registering the highest single-day spike of 19,445 new cases, the state Health Department said

Amid Covid, LIC relaxes claim settlement requirements from Monday

LIC has allowed alternate proofs of death as a relevant proof. Earlier, death certificates were mandatory for claims process

'Baseless': DoT denies link between 5G technology and Covid spread

DoT has categorically quashed rumours doing rounds on social media, saying these messages are false and have no scentific basis

Mumbai's Dharavi reports single-digit Covid-19 cases after two months

Mumbai's slum sprawl Dharavi reported nine new COVID-19 infections on Monday, its single-digit case count after two months, a senior civic official said

Bodies of suspected Covid victims found floating in Ganges in Bihar

Some news channels claimed the number of bodies to be as high as 100, which the BDO dismissed as 'highly exaggerated'

European Union insists dispute with AstraZeneca is only contractual

The European Commission insisted Monday it still trusts the coronavirus vaccine developed by AstraZeneca and that its dispute with the Anglo-Swedish drugmaker is only contractual

Indian variant of coronavirus found in Thai travellers from Pakistan

Health authorities in Thailand said they have confirmed the country's first cases of the Indian variant of the coronavirus, in a Thai woman and her 4-year-old son

Delhi govt issues list of oxygen refilling centres for patients at home

The Delhi government on Monday issued a list of 79 oxygen refilling centres for individuals in home isolation across the city.

Coronavirus tests not being done in UP's rural areas: SP leader

Samajwadi Party leader Ram Govind Chaudhary in a letter to Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath alleged that even though Covid-19 has spread to the state's rural areas, tests are not being done