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Dr Ramanan Laxminarayanan was used by the media to discredit India and PM Modi effort against COVID - he is funded by USAID, NED

Notably, while WHO may not be the sole source of funding for India’s various health programmes, the USA’s withdrawal from the agency would have an impact on India’s health initiatives and also prompt other Member States to increase funding to WHO.

China is gripped by a new and mysterious virus, Human Metapneumovirus (HMPV),evoking horrors of the initial days of the COVID-19 outbreak that spread like wildfire across the globe and claimed lakhs of lives.

Published in the prestigious International Journal of Biological Macromolecules, the study, led by Dr Anand Ranganathan and Shailja Singh of JNU's Special Centre for Molecular Medicine, reveals that targeting Hsp70 could help prevent drug resistance, which is becoming a major issue in infection treatment.

"As multiple, variant COVID-19 vaccines have since been developed there is a surplus of available updated vaccines," AstraZeneca said.

Following the arrests from Italy, Austria, Romania and Slovakia and an investigation by the EU prosecutor, eight people were detained, 14 were placed under house arrest and two others were barred from practising their profession.

In the run-up to the celebrations of the 75th year of Independence, Prime Minister Narendra Modi set a unique target for the Home Ministry – destroy 75,000 kgs of drugs in 60 days! As with many aspects of this government, the ministry exceeded this target and burnt 1,60,000 kgs of drugs in that 60-day window! 

The Delhi High Court on Tuesday summoned the Principal Secretary (PWD) of the Delhi Government in a matter related to non-payment for the construction of the Sardar Patel Covid Care Centre with 10,000 beds in Chhatarpur in 2020.

Mohammad Sahil, Mohammad Jubair, and Riyazuddin were arrested by UP STF in connection with fake certificate racket.

Covid-19 vaccination, it added, by and large, has been documented to prevent all-cause mortality across age groups and settings.  The primary purpose of vaccination is to prevent Covid-19-associated severity. Studies have documented adverse events, predominantly thromboembolic events, following Covid-19 vaccination, it noted.