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ICMR scientists have been investigating the impact of BCG vaccination on the frequencies of immunity cells and total antibody levels in a group of healthy elderly people, who are aged between 60 and 80 years, a month after their vaccination
OralScan, designed and developed by Sascan Meditech, a startup incubated at TiMED, a technology business incubator of the Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute for Medical Science and Technology (SCTIMST) in Thiruvananthapuram, would be officially launched by Kerala Health Minister K K Shailaja on Wednesday.
ICMR selected around 21 medical institutes across the country including Bhubaneswar’s IMS and SUM Hospital where the Covaxin’s third phase trial would be conducted. It is expected to cover around 28,500 subjects, aged 18 years and above, and will be conducted in 21 sites across ten states.
The days of suffering from dry, itching hands due to rinsing them multiple times with chemical disinfectants and soap as protection against contact infection of COVID 19 may soon be over. A number of start-ups based in different parts of India are now armed with a range of sustainable alternatives to conventional chemical-based decontaminants that can disinfect surfaces and even microcavities.
India’s national recovery rate has reached close to 90 per cent after 70.16 lakh persons have recovered from novel coronavirus out of the total positive cases detected so far. On Saturday, India’s total COVID-19 tally reached 78.15 lakh with detection of 53, 370 fresh cases. In comparison to fresh cases, 67, 549 persons were discharged from medical supervision taking the national recovery rate to 89.78 per cent.
Kamlesh (58), a diabetic patient with a history of chest pain, underwent a successful procedure of precision angioplasty with advanced Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) imaging technique at a Delhi hospital. This came after a complex arterial blockage had caused a massive heart attack which could have been life threatening.
The Centre has set aside nearly $7 billion (approx Rs 51,000 crore) to vaccinate India’s 1.3-billion people against Covid-19, reported Bloomberg quoting people with knowledge of the matter.
The Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) has successfully validated ‘COVIRAP,’ the diagnostic machine evolved by the IIT Kharagpur researchers, for its efficacy in COVID-19 detection.
PM Modi said India was putting in place a well-established vaccine delivery system, through a digitised network along with the digital health ID, for the immunisation of citizens.
An eighth-grader Indian-American has been awarded a grand prize of USD 25,000 in the ‘3M Young Scientist Challenge’ for her attempt to find a possible cure for the COVID-19 outbreak.
