Stubble burning in Punjab and Haryana contributed 6 per cent to the air pollution in Delhi-NCR on Thursday, data put out by the central government’s SAFAR website show. A day earlier, this share was just 1 per cent, and had been 3 per cent each on the previous three days. The increase on Thursday coincided … Read more
Union Minister Dr Harsh Vardhan has said to ensure everyone in the country receives protection against the novel coronavirus, India may tie up more than one Covid-19 vaccine manufacturer. The Union minister said the requirement to tie up with more than one manufacturer may arise if the population of the country is taken into consideration. … Read more
As per data released by the government, one woman is stalked or bulled on social media every day in Maharashtra. Maharashtra reported the highest number of cases of cyberstalking/bullying of women for three years in a row. (Representative photo: AP) As per the latest data released by National Crime Records Bureau, Maharashtra reported the highest … Read more
In what seems like a case of the coronavirus slowing down in India, the country in the first week of October recorded an average of 64,000 Covid cases daily. This is much lower than the 86,000-plus cases reported daily in the last two weeks of September. Daily deaths too have been declining in most states. … Read more
Some 15,841 coronavirus cases that were reported between September 25 and October 2 have not been tabulated on the government dashboard as the “excel sheet did not have enough columns”. While the people testing positive were informed, their contacts were not traced due to the lost data. People attend a busking show in London (Photo: … Read more
India posted a trade deficit of $2.91 billion in goods in September, data released by the government showed on Friday. Merchandise imports contracted 19.60% in September to $30.31 billion from a year ago while exports rose 5.27% to $27.40 billion, data from the Ministry of Commerce and Industry showed. Total merchandise imports fell by 40.06% … Read more
Bengaluru: Only three out 10 women excel in decision making and creative thinking as compared to seven out of 10 men, and this is not the same in the initial years, finds a survey by SCIKEY, a marketplace network for talent and technology solutions. The ‘Women in the IT sector in India’ survey, which has … Read more
Grace Lee, MD, professor of pediatric infectious diseases, Lucile Salter Packard Children’s Hospital, Stanford University, Stanford, CA. William Schaffner, MD, professor, preventive medicine, health policy, infectious diseases, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville. Tom Frieden, MD, president and CEO, Resolve to Save Lives, New York City. Hearing, U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions: … Read more
image copyrightPA Media image captionThe NHS Covid-19 app is set to become available to everyone in England and Wales on Thursday A leading health charity is demanding details about how England and Wales’ contact-tracing app fared in tests. The app is due to launch on Thursday. It has been trialled in the London Borough of … Read more
Ali Mokdad, professor of health metrics sciences, Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation; chief strategy officer for population health, University of Washington, Seattle. Amesh Adalja, MD, senior scholar, Johns Hopkins University Center for Health Security, Baltimore. NPR: “Joe Biden: For The Next 3 Months, All Americans Should Wear A Mask When Outside.” Institute for Health … Read more