Day: August 21, 2020

Millions of music-lovers across three globe besides me members of film fraternity organised mass prayers for speedy recovery of playback singer S P Balasubrahmanyam.

Inspiration of Chennai awards were presented to Dr Sunita Jayaraman, a surgeon, for her service rendered at the Kannagi Nagar Public Health Centre and Dr Issa Fathima Jasmine M for her service project ‘Ayyamittu Unn’,an initiative that works to eliminate hunger and food wastage from the community.

“The study is designed to evaluate the safety, reactogenicity, tolerability and immunogenicity of healthy volunteers who receive two intramuscular doses of BBV152 vaccine formulations,” said Dr Satyajit Mohapatra, professor, department of pharmacology in SRM Medical College and principal investigator of Covaxin study.

As coronavirus cases continue to surge in India, restricting several economic activities, the World Bank may project a steeper contraction of the Indian economy for the current financial year, revised from the previous estimate of 3.2 per cent.

With the daily Covid-19 cases mark nearing 6,000 once again, Chief Minister Edappadi K Palaniswami has said that the recent spike in coronavirus cases was due to returnees from other States, districts and countries.