The vaccine is easy to store between 2 and 8 degrees Celsius. It is also expected to cost less than $10.
Wearing two masks nearly doubles their effectiveness and helps keep the virus at bay.
Much of the misinformation travels on WhatsApp, which has more than 400 million users in India.
The same panel has also said the gap between two doses of Covishield should be increased to 12 to 16 weeks.
In the study, participants were able to identify familiar faces in masks with around 90 percent accuracy.
Private companies are prepared to take more risks than government programs because they don’t have to justify their spending to the public.
The Health Ministry and CDSCO sought from both the firms their vaccine production plan for June, July, August and September.
The trial will take place in 525 subjects at various sites, including AIIMS, Delhi, AIIMS Patna and Meditrina Institute of Medical Sciences, Nagpur.
More than 400 large cities are at "high" or "extreme" risk due to a mix of pollution, dwindling water supplies, heat waves, natural disasters and climate change.
The IPPPR insisted that rich countries should provide one billion vaccines to the world's poorest nations by 1 September.
Launched 44 years ago by NASA, Voyager 1 is part of the Voyager program to study the outer Solar System.
The book will tell the story of how the drugmaker managed to develop an effective vaccine against COVID-19 in a remarkably short period of time — months instead of years.
Earth's skin is stretched across 510 million km2, 361 million km2 is water, about 15 million km2 is covered by ice with 134 million km2 is ice-free land.
Antimicrobial resistance has been predicted to cause 10 million deaths annually by 2050.
Scientists from 44 countries will use the telescope to look at alien worlds and penetrate supermassive black holes at the centre of galaxies.
Global average annual losses from disasters in cities were estimated to $314 billion in 2015 and will increase to $415 billion by 2030.
The cubic satellite, weighing 40 kilograms, will be launched in the first quarter of 2022 on SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket.
Outside of India, it said that Britain had reported the largest number of Covid cases caused by the variant.
The $85 million tech demo was supposed to end a few days ago, but NASA extended the mission by at least a month to get more flying time.
Hua Chunying said Beijing was being treated unfairly, the American media romanticises their launches and space debris free falls.
A trillion dollars a year spread across these seven economies would translate to about two percent of their pre-pandemic GDPs, the report calculated.
The probe will journey around 2.3 billion kilometres through space and land in the Utah desert on 24 September 24, 2023.
The mission dubbed Ax-1 is to last around 10 days, said Axiom Space president and CEO Michael Suffredini.
As health systems near their limit in places like India and Nepal, a resetting of global priorities towards disaster anticipation rather than merely disaster management is required.
In 2016, Beijing changed family planning rules allowing families to have two kids amid fears of fast-ageing population and shrinking workforce
NASA and some experts said China had behaved irresponsibly, as an uncontrolled re-entry of such a large object risked damage and casualties.
Regular physical activity increases CD4+ T cells, which are responsible for alerting the immune system of an attack and regulate its response.
If intellectual property protection is waived in the face of public emergency, even as a one-off, will firms invest next time there is a similar emergency?
Within the last few thousand years, farmers brought about more land transformations, but the legacy of human impacts was in place a long time ago.
Global methane emissions were fairly level about 15 to 20 years ago, but started creeping up over the past five years or so.