Maintain essential health services amid Coronavirus outbreak: WHO MD Bureau9 Aug 2020 11:00 AM ISTNew Delhi: The World Health Organization (WHO) on Thursday urged member countries in the South-East Asian region to maintain essential health services...
Serum Institute to offer up to 100 million doses of COVID vaccine priced at less than Rs 250 per dose Farhat Nasim8 Aug 2020 11:15 AM ISTNew Delhi: The Serum Institute of India would introduce candidate vaccines from AstraZeneca and Novavax for COVID-19 at less than Rs 250 per dose...
WHO recognises evidence emerging of airborne spread of COVID Medical Dialogues Bureau13 July 2020 9:00 AM IST"We have been talking about the possibility of airborne transmission and aerosol transmission as one of the modes of transmission of COVID-19," Maria...
COVID Outbreak: WHO team to reach China next week to investigate SARS-CoV-2 source MD Bureau4 July 2020 1:48 PM IST"WHO has been saying that knowing the source of the virus is very, very important. It's science, it's public health. We can fight the virus better...
Coronavirus has not suddenly become less pathogenic: WHO Medical Dialogues Bureau30 Jun 2020 9:00 AM IST"It may not be that the virus itself is becoming less potent: it may be that we are, as a community, successfully reducing the number, intensity and...
World May Have Covid-19 Vaccine In A Year, UK Pharma Company Leading In Race: WHO Ruchika Sharma28 Jun 2020 9:00 AM IST"I think AstraZeneca certainly has a more global scope at the moment in terms of where they are doing and planning their vaccine trials," she told the...
COVID 19 vaccine could come within 1 year: WHO MD Bureau26 Jun 2020 3:22 PM ISTBrussels: Scientists predict the world may have a Covid-19 vaccine within one year or even a few months earlier, said the Director-General of the...
Clinical overview and practice recommendations for physicians undertaking COVID-19 critical care: Dr Yash Paul Sharma and Dr Prem Aggarwal Hina Zahid24 Jun 2020 9:34 AM ISTFollowing practice recommendations have been compiled by cardiologists Dr Yashpaul Sharma and Dr Prem Aggarwal These recommendations...
Covid 19 positive mothers should breastfeed: WHO Dr. Kamal Kant Kohli13 Jun 2020 12:00 PM ISTNew mothers infected with COVID-19 should generally continue breastfeeding and should not be separated from their babies, the World Health...
Perspective: Covid-19 tests in India can cost low and will help widen the net to get realistic picture Dr. Ishwar Gilada6 Jun 2020 11:01 AM ISTIndia, despite being number two in population (1380 million), was considered fortunate in Covid-19 as it had advantage of learning from the successes...
WHO recommends wider use of face masks to curb COVID-19 MD Bureau6 Jun 2020 10:00 AM IST"That means, for example, when a doctor is doing a ward round on the cardiology or palliative care units where there are no confirmed COVID-19...
COVID-19: WHO stay on HCQ trial was knee-jerk reaction, says CSIR Chief Shekhar Mande Ruchika Sharma6 Jun 2020 10:00 AM ISTDG CSIR said because there is a global outcry it must have put pressure on both Lancet as well as WHO and both of them now retracted from their...
