Canada announced its approval of administering the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine to children ages 12 to 15 on Wednesday.
Day: May 6, 2021
The overall global Covid-19 caseload has topped 154.7 million, while the deaths have surged to more than 3.23 million, according to the Johns Hopkins University.
When Secretary of State Antony Blinken travels to Ukraine this week he’ll be carrying a tough anti-graft message and strong US backing for the country’s response to Russian aggression. He’ll also be bringing along a familiar face in the Washington-Moscow tug-of-war over the former Soviet republic: Victoria Nuland.
The severity of Coronavirus is so high that the country recorded its daily high with 4,12,262 fresh cases abd 3,980 fatalities in the last 24 hours.
While stressing the need to strengthen surveillance as well as upgrade vaccines against new variants even as people maintain mask discipline and physical distancing norm, Principal Scientific Adviser to the Centre, Prof K Vijay Raghavan, has said a third wave of the Covid-19 pandemic is inevitable.
World Health Organisation (WHO) has admitted that there is a possibility of airborne transmission of the coronavirus.
MMA, formerly known as the Mobile Marketing Association, a not-for-profit trade body with heightened focus on modern marketing, has announced its annual flagship event, MMA Impact India 2021, being hosted virtually on 20 and 21 May.
The European Patent Office (EPO) has announced that the Indian-American chemist Sumita Mitra has been nominated as a finalist in the ‘Non-EPO countries’ category of the European Inventor Award 2021.
The Election Commission has decided to defer proposed bypolls to three Lok Sabha and eight Assembly seats in view of the prevailing coronavirus situation in the country.