The explosive COVID-19 has now hit the Supreme Court in a big way 50% of its staff tested positive for the disease.
The entire court rooms and premise is going to be sanitized , sources said.
India is experiencing a new second wave of Covid-19 which is ferocious then the first wave.The new wave has infected more than 10 lakh new cases during past last week.
The total number of cases reported in last 24 hours is 1,69,275 and 839 fatalities .
Maharashtra: Pune City Police have arrested a nurse and her associate for illegal sale of Remdesivir injection according to a report by ANI.
Bhartiya Vidyapeeth Police Station has registered a case in this context.
Amid the increasing demand of Remdesivir injection due to the ongoing case surge, several people have started black marketing the injection. Many such cases have been reported form various parts of the nation.
According to a media report, Remdesivir works as an anti-dose for Covid positive people. Covid patients are inoculated with six doses of this injection in a span of 5 days and two of them are given on the first day itself.
Remdesivir is currently at high demand in the states of Punjab, Maharashtra, Gujarat and Madhya Pradesh.
Companies have geared up the production of the Remdesivir injection and it is likely for the supply to get normalized in the upcoming days.
Rajesh Bhushan, Union Health Secretary, wrote to the states of Maharashtra, Punjab and Chhattisgarh over the feedback from Central public teams deployed in these states amid the rise in Covid-19 cases.
‘Containment operation found to be sub-optimal in Maharashtra, acute shortage of health workers in some districts.’
Based on the feedback from the central team, Bhushan in his letter to Maharashtra, said “containment operations were found to be sub-optimal in Satara, Sangli and Aurangabad, with less than satisfactory perimeter control, lack of active surveillance for influenza like illness (ILI) cases. Efforts at surveillance and contact tracing were found to be sub-optimal in Buldhana, Satara, Aurangabad and Naded, mostly due to limited manpower engaged in this task.”
According to a report by TOI, the health secretary has also said the Centre has taken note of issues related to vaccine availability in the state.
‘Lack of perimeter control in containment zones, hospital bed occupancy high.’
Meanwhile in the letter to Chhattisgarh, Bhushan said he has received feedback from the Central team which points to strictly maintain the containment zones.
‘We need to have a new normal in our lives for the future where we will have to do our economic activities and will have to take care of ourselves’: Dr. NK Ganguly, Fmr DG, ICMR
‘Vaccination is important but what is more important is that vaccination doesn’t give you a license to go without a mask.’: Dr. NK Ganguly, Fmr DG, ICMR
Sunday 11 April, 2021
9:50 AM – PM Modi kickstarts Tika Utsav aiming to inoculate large number of eligible individuals
Tika Utsav will be conducted from April 11 to April 14
9:55 AM – Elderly people arrive at BKC vaccination centre in Mumbai amid weekend lockdown in Maharashtra.
10:20 AM – Delhi: people arrive at inoculation centre to receive Covid-19 vaccine as Tika Utsav begins.
“Masks & vaccine are most important weapons to fight pandemic. I urge all to get vaccinated,” says Mayor North DMC Jai Prakash.
10:46 AM – UP CM Yogi Adityanath visits Shakti Bhawan to inspect vaccination drive, as 4-day Tika Utsav begins.
Eligible people should join 4-day Tika Utsav. People above 45 can register themselves at their nearby vaccination centre. We are running vaccination drive at 6,000 centres: UP CM Adityanath Yogi.
11:50 AM – Karnataka Health Minister K Sudhakar launches Tika Utsav at Atal Bihari Vajpayee Medical College & Research Institute earlier today.
11:56 AM – Bihar: Patna’s Gardiner Hospital observes Tika Utsav. Centre Coordinator of the hospital says, “PM has started Tika Utsav from today till April 14 to inoculate maximum number of people. We have set up more counters in the hospital for this occasion so that there is less crowding.
12:42 PM – Kerala: People arrive at a district in Peroorkada, Thiruvananthapuram to receive Covid-19 vaccine.
12:48 PM: Jharkhand: People queue up outside an inoculation centre in Ranchi’s Ashok Nagar to receive Covid-19 vaccine.
1:00 PM – Madhya Pradesh: We are observing Tika Utsav in the entire state. No lockdown will take place in Madhya Pradesh, says CM Shivraj Singh Chouhan.
CM says “There is no shortage of oxygen. 4,000 Remdesivir injections are already available and 5,000 injections will arrive today.”
1:39 PM – Manipur: CM Biren Singh receives his first dose of Covid-19 vaccine today at the launch of Tika Utsav in Imphal’s Jawaharlal Nehru Institute of Medical Sciences.
More than 10 crore doses have been inoculated across India. On Day 85 of vaccination drive, 35,19,987 doses were given.
Cumulatively, 10,15,95,147 vaccine doses were administered through 15,17,963 sessions.
No. of cases registered in the last 24 hours reached 1,52,879 on Sunday, April 11.
Ten states including Maharashtra, Chhattisgarh, Uttar Pradesh, Delhi, Karnataka, Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan have shown a steep rise in COVID daily new cases. 80.92% cases were registered from these 10 states.
Amid an unprecedented surge in Covid cases in India, Prime Minister Narendra Modi started a mass vaccination programme, ‘Tika Utsav’, that will be conducted from April 11 to April 14 with an aim to inoculate a maximum number of people eligible.
On Sunday, the PM tweeted to mark the beginning of Tika Utsav and posted four requests along with his message.
In a statement he urged people to keep four things in mind, including “each one, vaccinate one”, “each one, treat one” and “each one, save one”.
Several states like Uttar Pradesh and Bihar are kicking off with appeals being made to eligible people to get themselves vaccinated during the Tika Utsav.
In Uttar Pradesh, Tika Utsav started with 6,000 vaccination centres in the state. CM Adityanath Yogi will take part in the Webinars on vaccination on all the days of the drive along with the Governor.
Bihar is about to vaccinated four lakh people during ‘Tika Utsav’, said CM Nitish Kumar and appealed people to come forward for vaccination to contain the corona pandemic.
Karnataka CM YS Yeddiyurappa called the vaccine the “biggest weapon” in fight against coronavirus as he urged eligible people in the southern state to get vaccinated.
Over 10 crore people have been administered COVID-19 vaccine doses in the country since the mass inoculation drive began earlier this year, making India the fastest nation to reach the milestone.
The National Board of Examination (NBE) has released the conduct of NEET PG 2021 with Covid-19 Appropriate Behavior.
The NBE will hold entrance test on the 18th of April, 2021 for admission to 10,821 Master of Surgery (MS) seats, 19,953 Doctor of Medicine (MD) seats, and 1,979 PG Diploma seats offered by 6,102 government, private, deemed and central universities.
For details, refer to the following document:
https://natboard.edu.in/viewNotice.php?NBE=WVpnSzd4K0QzTUtNamtNbDVnWTRpUT09
The National Medical Commission (NMC) has issued an advisory to all the medical colleges concerning the conduct of final year MBBS examinations in view of the second wave.
According to the advisory signed under the authority of Dr Aruna V. Vanikar, President of Undergraduate Medical Education Board of the National Medical Commission, it is directed to all the universities:
“The universities must try to adhere to the existing norms.
Considering the risk stratification of the areas where the Medical colleges/institutions are located, if the external examiners are not available from the outside the state due to the pandemic, at least one examiner must be called from outside the state to conduct the exams online.
The other external examiners may be invited from the Health University who is to remain present physically.
The internal examiners must conduct the exams physically in the same premises.”
Shankar Lalwani, Member of Parliament Indore, said on April 10 that a committee had been created that will audit the oxygen availability in hospitals as demand in Indore has gone up to 60% in view of rising COVID cases.
“Oxygen demand in Indore has gone up to 60%. We have created a committee that will audit oxygen availability in hospitals. We have extended the lockdown in Indore from Monday to Friday,” said Lalwani. “A 24X7 COVID control room will provide virus-related information to public. We are working on increasing number of normal and ICU beds in hospitals. Today, a team of doctors will release a protocol on hospital admissions,” he added.