- Wednesday, May 08, 2024
THE ‘red list’ Covid-19 travel restrictions came into force for India on Friday (23), which bans entry of travellers from the country and requires British and Irish nationals and long-term UK residents returning home to undergo a compulsory 10-day hotel quarantine. The ban comes in as Public Health England (PHE)…
INDIA reported the world’s highest daily tally of coronavirus infections for a second day on Friday (23), surpassing 330,000 new cases, as it struggles with a health system overwhelmed by patients and plagued by accidents. Deaths in the past 24 hours also jumped to a record 2,263, the health ministry…
AT LEAST 22 patients died on Wednesday (21) in a hospital in western India after a disruption to their oxygen supply caused by a leaking tank, the health minister said, as a nationwide surge in coronavirus cases soaks up supplies of the crucial gas. The incident in the city of…
INDIA's top oil producer Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) said three of its employees were kidnapped by gunmen from a rig site in the eastern Assam state on Wednesday (21). The employees were kidnapped in a company-owned vehicle from the state-run firm's Lakwa field in Assam's Sivasagar district, where…
INDIGENOUSLY developed Covid-19 vaccine, Covaxin, neutralises multiple variants of SARS-CoV-2 and effectively works against the double mutant strain as well, the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) said on Wednesday (21). Bharat Biotech's Covaxin has received Emergency Use Authorizations (EUAs) in India and in several other countries with another 60…
PAKISTAN’S foreign minister has welcomed mediation efforts by the United Arab Emirates between his country and India but said he was not planning to meet his Indian counterpart in the UAE, according to newspaper Khaleej Times. Pakistani foreign minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi and Indian foreign minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar are visiting…
BRITAIN has added India to its travel “red-list” after detecting 103 cases of a coronavirus variant first identified in the country, health minister Matt Hancock said on Monday (19). “We’ve made the difficult but vital decision to add India to the Red List. This means anyone who is not a…
INDIA will lock down its capital New Delhi for a week from Monday (19) night to try and control a raging coronavirus outbreak. Infections are skyrocketing in India, however, with hospitals running out of beds and the government forced to reimpose economically painful restrictions again. The Delhi lockdown came after…
INDIA will let all its citizens aged over 18 get Covid-19 shots from May 1, the government said on Monday (19) as cases continue to surge to record highs. The immunisation drive was currently restricted to only citizens aged above 45. Vaccine manufacturers will need to supply 50 per cent…
SCIENTIST Surshti Patel, working with the Zoological Society of London (ZSL), has been awarded the Joanna Toole Ghost Gear Solutions Award 2020. The funding from the award will go towards her project to assess the feasibility of establishing the first ever ghost net collection and recycling system in River Ganges,…
