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India's apex drugs regulator, the Drugs Controller General of India (DCGI), on Tuesday approved Pune-based Serum Institute's Covid vaccine Covovax for children aged 7 to 11 years, as per a source.

In a statement, the health agency provided an update on the confirmed cases, saying two were reported from British Columbia, four from Alberta, 45 from Ontario and 184 from Quebec, reports Xinhua news agency.

However, DGCI will review the recommendation before nodding for final approval. The expert panel in its last meeting in April had sought more information from Serum Institute over the application, as per the source.

India has been witnessing a spike in daily Covid cases for the past few days. After a decline on Tuesday, India again reported a rise on Wednesday with 12,249 fresh Covid infections.

The World Health Organization (WHO) is likely to declare monkeypox, which has so far affected 2,821 people in both endemic and non-endemic countries, a global health emergency, according to media reports.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) has emerged as a gamechanger in ophthalmology. Using computer-algorithms, it helps in analysing medical data to detect diabetic retinopathy, glaucoma, and others in the early stages.

An Indian origin patient was among those who had a "miracle" cure using a cancer medication that is being tried out by a research centre here achieving an unprecedented healing rate when all 14 patients in the trial had their cancers disappear.

The results, published in the Lancet Oncology journal, showed the breast cancer patients who were given Capivasertib, developed by AstraZeneca, survived almost twice as long than those given the standard treatment alone, BBC reported.

"Over 88 per cent of the adult population is now fully vaccinated against #COVID19. Congratulations India! Keep following COVID appropriate behaviour even after getting vaccinated", said Mandaviya in a tweet.

One confirmed case of the XE Covid variant has been detected in India, according to the latest bulletin of the Indian SARS-CoV2 Genomics Sequencing Consortium (INSACOG).

Ahead of the opening of the booster drive for all the 18 plus range, vaccine manufacturer Serum Institute of India has announced a considerable reduction in the price of its Covishield vaccine for private hospitals - from Rs 600 to Rs 225 per dose.

In yet another benchmark in rendering improvised health care facilities to the people of the state, the doctors of Agartala Government Medical College (AGMC) and GBP Hospital on February 24 conducted the first ever open-heart surgery to a 10 years old girl.

Indian pharma major Glenmark Pharmaceuticals Limited and Canadian pharmaceutical company SaNOtize Research & Development Corp, on Wednesday announced launch of nasal spray to treat adult Covid-19 patients.

The doctors of the ENT depart of the Agartala Government Medical College (AGMC) and GB Pant Hospital on Tuesday successfully operated out tamarind seeds from the lungs of a minor tribal girl.

ডাঃ অনিন্দ্য সুন্দর ত্রিবেদী তাঁর অ্যাঞ্জিওপ্লাস্টি করেন। সঙ্গে ছিলেন কনসালটেন্ট অ্যান্ড ইনচার্জ কার্ডিয়াক সার্জন ডাঃ কনক নারায়ণ ভট্টাচার্য, ডাঃ অরূপ দেব, ডাঃ সুরজিৎ পাল, ক্যাথ ল্যাব টেকনিশিয়ান সঞ্জয় ঘোষ, ক্যাথ ল্যাব নার্স প্রাণকৃষ্ণ দেব, দেবব্রত দেবনাথ, অন্ন বাহাদুর জমাতিয়া ও সুজন সাহু এবং অন্যান্য স্বাস্থ্যকর্মীগণ।

The surgery was performed by Dr. Anindya Sundar Trivedi along with Consultant and In-charge Cardiac surgeon Dr. Kanak Narayan Bhattacharjee, Dr. Arup Deb, Dr. Surajit Pal, Cath Lab Technician Sanjay Ghosh, 

প্রথম বাইপাস হার্ট সার্জারিতে সাফল্য এজিএমসি অ্যান্ড জিবিপি হাসপাতালে। হাসপাতালের কার্ডিও থোরাসিক অ্যান্ড ভাসকুলার সার্জারি অ্যান্ড ইন্টারভেনশনাল রেডিওলজি (সিটিভিএস অ্যান্ড আইআর) ডিপার্টমেন্টের কনসালটেন্ট অ্যান্ড ইনচার্জ কার্ডিয়াক সার্জন ডাক্তার কনক নারায়ণ ভট্টাচার্যের নেতৃত্বে চিকিৎসকদের একটি টিম গত ২৮ জানুয়ারি সিএবিজি (করোনারি আর্টারি বাইপাস গ্রাফটিং) সার্জারির ইতিহাস গড়লেন।

Within a week of its first of its Open Heart Surgery, the Agartala Government Medical College (AGMC) and GB Hospital has made yet another medical history in Tripura by conducting the first of its Bypass Heart Surgery.

ফের হূদযন্ত্র অপারেশনে সাফল্য জিবিপি হাসপাতালে। বিগত দিনে এ ধরনের অস্ত্রপাচার করা কষ্টকর ছিল। বর্তমান পরিকাঠামোর উন্নয়নে জিবিপি হাসপাতালের চিকিৎসকরা অস্ত্রপাচারে সাফল্য লাভ করে ।

The Covid-19 pandemic has made several healthcare and pharma players billionaires and the makers of Dolo-650 -- the most prescribed medicine during the pandemic having sold more than 350 crore pills since the Covid outbreak in March 2020 -- are raking in the moolah too.

According to Fauci, younger children will likely need three doses, because two shots did not induce an adequate immune response among kids between 2-4 yeas of age in Pfizer's clinical trials, CNBC reported.

The primary vaccination has to be done at 3 months of age and re-vaccination annually. The technology for the vaccine and its testing was obtained from Indian Council of Agriculture Research-Indian Veterinary Research Institute (ICAR- IVRI),

In a briefing on the present situation of Covid and new variant Omicron in the country, he said that it is very important to have low-intensity festivities and avoid non-essential travel and mass gatherings.

The Covid situation in the country, he said, is under control but measures are being taking to pervent it from spreading further. A total of 124 crore vaccination doses have been administered to the eligible population till date.

The infection is caused and spread through contaminated food and water. The person affected with the virus will develop symptoms of vomiting, loose motion, nausea, stomach ache, headache, body pain and fever, it said.