Budget 2018-19

The new variant of the virus entered Iran from its eastern and southeastern borders and has triggered a jump in the cases, the Iranian national headquarters fighting Covid-19 has announced The Delta variant of Covid-19 has spread to much of Iran, including the capital Tehran. The new variant of the virus entered Iran from its eastern and southeastern borders and has triggered a jump in the cases, the Iranian national headquarters fighting Covid-19 has announced. “Given the highly infectious nature of this (new variant of) virus, it can further raise cases and hospitalisations,” Alireza Raisi, spokesman of the headquarters, was quoted as saying on Sunday by the Iranian Students’ News Agency (ISNA), Xinhua reported. In Iran, at least 92 cities, including Tehran, have been placed on red alert and 183 others on orange, according to the Iranian health authorities. The restrictions in cities on red alert need to be reinstated, with “at most 30 percent of government employees allowed in the w...

  Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath said that the state has now moved into a Covid ‘safe zone’ Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister  Yogi Adityanath  said that the state has now moved into a Covid ‘safe zone’. In a statement, he said that the state has proved the critics wrong and managed to “successfully blunt” the surge through the trace, test and treat method. “We are now preparing for a probable third wave. In Deoria, we will work on encephalitis control along with Covid care. The rainy season, which triggers encephalitis is just months away. Gorakhpur-Basti divisions previously bore the brunt of the scourge. We have reduced the encephalitis death rate by 95 per cent and now there are hundreds of health wellness and encephalitis treatment centres, which will help control the disease,” he said. The Chief Minister added that paediatric ICUs (PICU) in district hospitals and mini-PICU in community health centres were being operationalised. A new 20-bed PICU has been pl...

  Central bank had last year announced a series of measures to support the economy suffering the impact of a nationwide lockdown Reserve Bank of India Governor Shaktikanta Das will make an unscheduled speech at 10 am today, Wednesday, as a new coronavirus wave threatens a nascent economic recovery. The address will be broadcast at 10am local time, the RBI said on Twitter. It didn’t elaborate. A team at the Indian Institute of Science in Bangalore used a mathematical model to predict about 404,000 deaths will occur by June 11 if current trends continue. A model from the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation at the University of Washington forecast 1,018,879 deaths by the end of July, Bloomberg reported. India on Tuesday recorded 33,491 new  coronavirus cases  to take its count to 3,447,133. With 3,449 new fatalities, its Covid-19 death toll reached 222,408. Congress leader Rahul Gandhi has said the central government should impose a “full lockdown” to slow down the c...

  If vaccinated people are silent spreaders of the virus, they may keep it circulating in their communities, putting unvaccinated people at risk The new Covid-19 vaccines from Pfizer and Moderna seem to be remarkably good at preventing serious illness. But it’s unclear how well they will curb the spread of the coronavirus.That’s because the Pfizer and Moderna trials tracked only how many vaccinated people became sick with Covid-19. That leaves open the possibility that some vaccinated people get infected without developing symptoms, and could then silently transmit the virus — especially if they come in close contact with others or stop wearing masks. If vaccinated people are silent spreaders of the virus, they may keep it circulating in their communities, putting unvaccinated people at risk.“A lot of people are thinking that once they get vaccinated, they’re not going to have to wear masks anymore,” said Michal Tal, an immunologist at Stanford University. “It’s really going to be ...