Tamil Nadu BJP president K. Annamalai. | Photo Credit: M. Vedhan Tamil Nadu Bharatiya Janata Party president K. Annamalai on Saturday strongly condemned the State government for not extending the contract of roughly 6,000 nurses employed temporarily during COVID-19. These nurses were engaged for a monthly salary of ₹ 14,000 per month and their contract, … Read more
By Dr. Vivek Anand Padegal The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic created new obstacles for healthcare workers throughout the world. As the instances grew in 2021, the patients went from 30 to 350 in a month, putting a huge strain on hospitals, physicians, and patients. Healthcare personnel all throughout the world have responded to the challenge … Read more
The vaccination against COVID-19 in the age group of 12-14 years started on Wednesday with Biological E’s intramuscular vaccine Corbevax, two doses of which are to be administered 28 days apart. Over 3 lakh children between 12 and 14 years have received their first shot of Covid vaccine taking the total doses administered in the … Read more
More than 1.99 crore (1,99,62,729) precaution doses have been administered so far to healthcare workers, frontline workers and those aged 60 and above with comorbidities. The cumulative COVID-19 vaccine doses administered in the country crossed 177.40 crore on Saturday, the Union Health Ministry said. More than 21 lakh (21,41,821) vaccine doses were administered on Saturday … Read more
On December 25, Narendra Modi announced that the precautionary third dose for vulnerable category will commence from January 10. Covid ‘Precautionary dose’ vaccination: Healthcare, frontline workers and senior citizens above 60 can now book slots for ‘Covid-19 ‘Precautionary dose’ on the Co-WIN portal. The slot booking link is now live, informed Vikas Sheel, Additional Secretary and … Read more
Sept. 28, 2021 — When the coronavirus pandemic locked down the nation’s largest city in the spring of 2020, New Yorkers flocked to their windows to bang their pots and pans and yell their thanks to health care workers and first responders for saving a city ravaged by COVID-19. But as the pandemic wore … Read more
July 1, 2021 — For New Yorkers, March 11 to May 2, 2020, was most definitely the worst time of the pandemic. Nearly 19,000 people died of COVID-19 in New York City during those weeks, which translates to over 350 deaths per day and more than one death every 5 minutes. No one experienced … Read more
By the third week of April, the shortage of beds in the city resulted in only the sickest COVID patients with increasing oxygen requirements being admitted to hospitals. (Photo source: IE) By Prof. (Dr.) Ashok Seth, The second wave of COVID came like a Tsunami and caught us all unaware. As doctors who had been … Read more
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It was already afternoon when Uttar Pradesh’s joint commissioner of police Naveen Arora received an SMS recently, informing him that his vaccination shot was scheduled for the morning at a hospital in Lucknow. Arora had to miss his chance under the drive for frontline workers this time. In Kolkata, field immunisation worker Tinku Banerjee could … Read more