Here are the top updates from Monday: Bharat Biotech said it has submitted all documents to the World Health Organization for the emerge...
Here are the top updates from Monday:
- Bharat Biotech said it has submitted all documents to the World Health Organization for the emergency-use listing of its Covid-19 vaccine Covaxin. “The review process has now commenced with the expectation that we will receive EUL [emergency-use listing] from the WHO at the earliest,” it added.
- India recorded 37,154 new coronavirus cases and 724 deaths in 24 hours on Monday morning. With this, the country’s tally of infections rose to 3,08,74,376 and the toll went up to 4,08,764 since the pandemic broke out in January last year.
- The Indian Medical Association cautioned the central and state governments that the third wave of the coronavirus pandemic was inevitable and imminent. The doctors’ association said that “tourist bonanza, pilgrimage travel, religious fervour” could wait and the people should follow Covid protocols for at least three more months. Tourism Minister G Kishan Reddy also urged Indians to follow Covid protocol while travelling.
- Data from the National Health Mission’s Health Management Information System showed that there were nearly 3,00,000 more deaths in India in May 2021, compared to the same month in 2019, according to an analysis by IndiaSpend. This is more than 2.5 times India’s official Covid-19 toll of 1.2 lakh for the same period....
