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NTU Singapore wins global award for demonstrating resilience in its COVID-19 efforts
New Delhi: Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) has won international commendation for its efforts that demonstrate resilience amidst the COVID-19 pandemic.
The University received the COVID-19 Agility…
Impact of COVID-19 on poor mental health in children and young people ‘tip of the iceberg’
NEW YORK – Children and young people could feel the impact of COVID-19 on their mental health and well-being for many years to come, UNICEF warned in its flagship report today.
According to The State of the World’s Children 2021; On My…
UK’s new simplified travel system takes off from today
From 4am today (Monday 4 October 2021), the UK’s new travel system comes into force with countries and territories categorised as either red or the rest of the world.
The new simplified travel system also means that eligible fully…
ADB Boosts Support for Health System Improvement and COVID-19 Response in Sri Lanka
MANILA — The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has approved a $110 million loan as additional financing for the ongoing Health System Enhancement Project that is improving the primary health care system (PHC) in Sri Lanka.
The Health System…
Improve COVID-19 immunization coverage of elderly population: WHO
NEW DELHI: On the International Day of Older Persons, WHO today called for greater efforts in South-East Asia Region to expand COVID-19 vaccination coverage among the older population who remain at highest risk of severe disease and death…
Israeli scientists construct new model to determine optimal strategies for combining Vaccines and…
New Delhi: Every country in the world these days must make smart decisions about how to allocate vaccines and what sort of social distancing to mandate to combat the COVID-19 pandemic. Ben-Gurion University of the Negev scientists have…
COVID-19 has caused the biggest decrease in life expectancy since World War II
The research team assembled an unprecedented dataset on mortality from 29 countries, spanning most of Europe, the US and Chile – countries for which official death registrations for 2020 had been published. They found that 27 of the 29…
Oxford and Oracle partner to speed identification of COVID-19 variants
Built using Oxford’s Scalable Pathogen Pipeline Platform (SP3), Oracle APEX, and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), the Global Pathogen Analysis System is a cloud platform that provides a unified, standardized system for analyzing and…
India’s Cumulative COVID-19 Vaccination Coverage crosses the landmark of 80 Cr
New Delhi: With the administration of 85,42,732 vaccine doses in the last 24 hours, India’s COVID-19 vaccination coverage surpassed the landmark figure of 80 Cr (80,43,72,331) as per provisional reports till 7 am today. This has been…
India’s cumulative vaccination coverage crosses 76 crore landmark milestone
New Delhi: India’s COVID-19 vaccination coverage has crossed 76 Crore landmark milestone(76,49,36,158) today. More than 57 lakh (57,10,380) Vaccine Doses have been administered till 7 pm today. The daily vaccination tally is expected to…