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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.
Serum Institute of India and Bharat Biotech are expected to pursue late stage clinical trials of intranasal Covid-19 vaccines in the coming months once they receive regulatory approval, Union health minister Harsh Vardhan said on Sunday.
Based on two pan-India studies, the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) has confirmed that there is no mutation of COVID-19 virus in the nation. On Saturday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi chaired a meeting to discuss the preparation and delivery process of coronavirus vaccine.
Government said, the total number of recoveries has reached over 65 lakh 97 thousand. Presently, the total number of active cases in the country is seven lakh 83 thousand and the Case Fatality Rate is at 1.52 per cent, which is one of the lowest, globally.
Explaining their work, the leader of the team, Prof. Umakanta Tripathy, said that Coronavirus, like any other virus, uses the proteins on its surface to enter into the cells of the human body. He and his team looked for natural compounds that could bind to these proteins and stop the virus from entering human cells. They used computer-based cutting edge techniques such as molecular docking and molecular dynamics simulation to hunt for potential inhibitors.
