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India’s daily death toll from Covid-19 fell below 300 for the first time since June 9, as 253 fatalities were recorded in the country on Christmas day, the lowest toll in more than six months.

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Serum Institute of India (SII) last week also had submitted some additional data required by the Drug Controller General of India (DCGI), the sources said.

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India reported the lowest single-day count of fresh Covid-19 cases in nearly six months on Saturday, as a receding pandemic as well as lower testing on Christmas day resulted in less than 19,000 new infections being detected across the country.

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The rapid development and approval of drugs has been hailed the world over, questions remain about the availability, effectiveness and side effects of the jabs.

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Exactly three months after India recorded its highest daily count of Covid-19 cases, over 98,795 on September 17, the country’s average number of cases have fallen to less than one-fourth of that peak.

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The Delhi government told Justice Subramonium Prasad that the decision was taken on December 27 after a two-member panel, comprising the Director of AIIMS and a Niti Aayog member, endorsed the recommendations of the De-escalation Committee to reduce from 80 to 60 per cent the ICU beds reserved in the 33 private hospitals.

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Websites offering consultations with doctors 24x7 have become sites for sexual harassment of women doctors, with ‘patients’ flashing, masturbating or making lewd conversation in the guise of seeking consultation.

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The two-day dry run for the Covid-19 vaccination in Assam, Andhra Pradesh, Punjab and Gujarat has been successfully conducted, the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare said on Tuesday.

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Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC)-developed eye cancer therapy has been successfully used for the first time for treatment of patients with ocular tumours in AIIMS-Delhi and the results of using Ruthenium 106 plaque for treatment of a patient with choroidal hemangioma (benign tumor in blood vessels).

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In a span of 24 hours, 20,549 persons were found to be Covid positive in the country. During the same period, 26,572 new recoveries were registered to ensure a drop in the active caseload, it stated.

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