Adar Poonawalla, the head of the world’s largest vaccine maker (by doses), on April 16, urged US President Joe Biden to lift the embargo on export of vaccine raw materials. The restriction has hit production of vaccines in India. In a tweet posted on social media tagging Biden, the SerumContinue Reading
Chandigarh: Healthcare professionals and other frontline medical workers who skip Covid-19 vaccination won’t get financial help from the authorities for treatment if they get infected later and won’t be allowed to take quarantine or isolation leave, the Punjab government has said. The northern Inidian state government has taken a seriousContinue Reading
Dimapur: A church organization in Nagaland has asked people not to believe in the “prophecy” of a prayer center that the Covid-19 vaccines are “not the will of God.” “The Covid-19 mass vaccination… is not the will of God, for which all believers are told not to take it,” saidContinue Reading
London: Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby has received his first dose of the Covid-19 vaccine and encouraged others to do the same. Calling the vaccine “an answer to prayer,” Welby said that receiving the jab is part of Christ’s call to “love our neighbor as ourselves”. “I want to encourageContinue Reading
By Don Aguiar Mumbai: Have been reading about the vaccine in almost every newspaper including a dozen professional newspapers. When Covid was running amok and spreading like wild fire every one of us were praying for a vaccine, as early as possible. Even now it’s in its 2nd peak inContinue Reading
By Dr. George Jacob Kochi: It’s been a year since a mere 50-200 nanometers sized virus has been holding man hostage. Making him appear helpless, vulnerable and without a clue before its relentless march across the globe. The ‘viral march’ which commenced in the wet markets of China’s Wuhan continuesContinue Reading
By Dr. George Jacob Kochi: It is not even a year since SARS-CoV-2 infected humans and boiled over into a full-fledged pandemic. The first whining for a vaccine against the novel virus was heard even with the virus’ first baby steps over the Great Wall of China. There was aContinue Reading
By Dr George Jacob Kochi: The world and the country have staggered on since a ‘cluster of cases of pneumonia’ was reported in Wuhan of China’s Hubei province in late December of 2019. The infection which resembled MERS and SARS, but deadlier was declared a pandemic on March 11 thisContinue Reading
By Dr. George Jacob Kochi, Sept 3, 2020: The World has been battling with Covid-19 since December 2019. No light is visible yet at the end of the seemingly unending and uncertain ‘viral tunnel’ through which the world seems to be dragged through. Clinical spectrum of Covid-19, which ranges fromContinue Reading