Suchitra Shirke, a resident of Bhavnagar shares her experience of having delivered during the pandemic induced lockdown. It has been all about sanitisers, masks, and PPE kits.
Once the COVID vaccine is developed, countries like India need to plan on who will get access to it first. The frontline health workers, those with co-morbidities, the economically backward section, or a completely different set?
“Corona virus is man-made and it will be the cause of the world coming to an end," announced an Uncle in a group I am part of. I rolled my eyes and deleted the message. There are many such myths running around in social media circles.
For his extraordinary work in manufacturing and distributing vaccinations, Cyrus Poonawalla is known as one of the 'seven vaccine heroes of the world.'
Bihar’s immunisation cold chain network runs on 1,946 working cold chain equipment installed across 654 vaccine stores and cold chain points. But it is the women and men who handle and deliver the vaccines who have contributed to the vaccination in the state.
The researchers at IIT Roorkie are conducting in-depth research on the drug piperazine, and have discovered its anti-viral properties could be used to tackle the disease.