Hi, NewsWrap for July 03, 2020

Covid-19 Latest News, Coronavirus vaccine, ICMR, PPE kits

3 July 2020

  • ICMR note says Covid vaccine for public use by August 15 

    Amid the corona crisis, the Indian Council of Medical Research has promised to “launch” a Coronavirus vaccine which is still to undergo clinical trials, “for public health use latest by August 15”. But however, few medical experts called the deadline to be “totally unrealistic if not entirely impossible”. 

    The ICMR director general Balram Bhargava has said that “in view of public health emergency” and the “urgency to launch the vaccine”, all the stakeholders are being “strictly advised to fast track all approvals related to the initiation of the clinical trial, and ensure that the subject enrolment is initiated no later than July 7, 2020”. 

  • India Coronavirus Update: Over 2 cr masks, 1.18 cr PPE kits, supplied to states, says Centre 

    The Centre has distributed more than 2.02 crore N95 masks and over 1.18 crore PPE kits Since April 1 among the states, Union territories, and central institutions for free, the Union health ministry said on Friday. 

  • Eight UP policemen killed as raiding party comes under fire in Kanpur; Injured Many 

    Eight Uttar Pradesh cops, including a deputy superintendent and three sub-inspectors, were killed after a group of assailants opened fire on a police team which was trying to arrest a criminal in Kanpur late on Thursday night, police said on Friday. Two criminals were killed during combing operations by the cops later. 

  • India Covid-19 Update: Top 10 states report highest single-day Covid-19 figure 

     

    STATE 

    TOTAL POSITIVE 

    NEW CASES 

    TOTAL RECOVERIES 

    DEATHS 

      

    Maharashtra 

    186,626 

    6,328 

    101,172 

    8,178 

    Tamil Nadu 

    98,392 

    4,343 

    56,021 

    1,321 

    Delhi 

    92,175 

    2,373 

    63,007 

    2,864 

    Gujarat 

    33,899 

    681 

    24,601 

    1,888 

    Uttar Pradesh 

    24,825 

    769 

    17,221 

    735 

     

     

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