PM Modi to launch Jan Andolan for COVID-19 appropriate behaviour today
The second presidential debate next week will be a virtual affair, the commission that oversees the debates said on Thursday, in the wake of President Donald Trump's COVID-19 diagnosis. The debate will remain a town hall-style conversation, the Commission on Presidential Debates said. Trump and Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden will appear from remote locations, while voters and the moderator will ask them questions from the original debate site in Miami. The news came a day after the sole vice presidential debate between Vice President Mike Pence and Biden's running mate, Senator Kamala Harris, who clashed
Coronavirus News LIVE Updates: 35 states/UTs conducting more than 140 COVID-19 tests/day/million population; positivity rate at 8.19%, says govt Thirty-five states and Union territories in the country are performing more than 140 COVID-19 tests per day per million population, while 22 states and UTs have COVID-19 positivity rate less than the national average, the health ministry said on Thursday. The cumulative positivity rate stands at 8.19 percent, it said. The national average of COVID-19 tests per day per million population is 865, the ministry said, asserting that the country has demonstrated an exponential increase in the COVID-19 testing infrastructure since January 2020. "As evidence has revealed, higher number of testing on a sustained basis has aided in bringing down the positivity rate. The sharp decline in national cumulative positivity rate has demonstrated that the rate of spread of infection is being contained," the ministry underlined.
Nearly 86 percent of people who tested positive for COVID-19 during lockdown did not have any of the known coronavirus symptoms such as cough, fever and loss of taste or smell, a new UK study revealed on Thursday. The University College London (UCL) authors behind the analysis, published in Clinical Epidemiology', conclude that a more widespread testing programme is therefore needed to catch silent transmission. The fact that so many people who tested positive were asymptomatic on the day of a positive test result calls for a change to future testing strategies. More widespread testing will help to capture silent' transmission and potentially prevent future outbreaks, said Professor Irene Petersen, from UCL Epidemiology & Health Care.
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India's drug regulator has knocked back a proposal from Dr Reddy's Laboratories Ltd REDY.NS to conduct a large study in the country to evaluate Russia's Sputnik-V COVID-19 vaccine and has asked it to first test the vaccine in a smaller trial. The recommendations by an expert panel of the Central Drugs Standard Control Organisation (CDSCO) noted that safety and immunogenicity data from early-stage studies being conducted overseas is small, with no inputs available on Indian participants. India’s move comes as a setback for Russia’s plan to roll-out the vaccine even before full trials show how well it works, while pushing back its efforts to win approval for the vaccine in the country that leads the world on average number of new infections. India is expected to overtake the United States over the next several weeks as the country with the world’s largest number of cases.
It would likewise include introducing hoardings, divider artworks, electronic showcase sheets in government premises, contribution of neighborhood and public influencers to commute home the message, and running portable vans for standard mindfulness age.
Sound messages, leaflets and pamphlets will likewise be disseminated in an offer to make mindfulness. Backing of neighborhood link administrators and the media will be looked for viable effort and effect.
Prior on Wednesday, Union Minister Prakash Javadekar said that the choice has been taken to remind the public that the pandemic is as yet seething.
"Covers, social removing and washing hands are the three different ways to stay safe without any antibody. We have chosen to dispatch a public mission to bring issues to light about these measures out in the open spots," said Javadekar while instructions the media on various bureau choices.
Javadekar said India has so far had the option to keep the Covid loss check low and recuperations high. The mission is proposed to keep it that way
