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The NPPA can only control prices of devices and products that are defined as drugs under the Drugs and Cosmetics Act. A product or device that is not notified as a drug goes out of the NPPA's purview.

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The symposium will have leading medical experts and scientists as speakers. The event would be conducted from 4:30 pm to 6:45 pm today.

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The country registered a record increase of 52,123 infections in 24 hours while the death-toll climbed to 34,968 with 775 people succumbing to the disease in a day, the ministry data updated at 8am showed.

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India now has the fifth highest Covid-19 death toll in the world after overtaking Italy’s fatality count of 35,132. The country’s overall toll stood at 35,748 on Thursday night. Of these, 18,356 have come in July alone, more than all Covid-19 deaths in the previous months put together.

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The Centre on Thursday said herd immunity cannot be a strategic choice or option for a country of India’s size as this would come at a huge cost in terms of lakhs of infected people and many deaths.

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The US private equity fund is understood to have pipped a rival offer from a consortium consisting another PE fund Carlyle Group and former Mylan Labs CEO Hari Babu. Bangalore-based Microlabs controls the entity currently. An official announcement is expected soon.

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Researchers, including from Cuba's Center of Molecular Immunology, which developed itolizumab, said timely use of the drug in combination with standard therapy helped reduce inflammation and prevented covid-19 from worsening.

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Fauci who is the Director of National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and one of the lead members of the Coronavirus Task Force in the US was addressing Indian Council of Medical Research’s international symposium on Novel Ideas in Science and Ethics of Vaccines Against Covid-19 Pandemic.

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Moderna, which is based in Massachusetts and announced its COVID-19 vaccine candidate in January, confirmed to Reuters that the company had been in contact with the FBI and was made aware of the suspected "information reconnaissance activities" by the hacking group mentioned in last week's indictment.

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Fatalities in July were 1.6 times higher than the deaths recorded in June (11,988). As the pandemic continued to surge, the second half of July saw around 7.3 lakh new infections.

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