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The health minister reiterated the government’s plan was to immunise 200 million to 250 million Indians by July.
While some doctors say they have not seen any benefits from the therapy, others think that shutting off the limited options available to them is counter-productive.
T. Jacob John, formerly with CMC, Vellore, says the government is placing too much faith in laboratories and PCR tests.
The coronavirus cases in India continue to escalate.
The body had come under criticism for rushing the process of developing a COVID-19 vaccine.
A police investigation into an alleged conspiracy in which a privately-owned diagnostic lab and a COVID-19 hospital in Amritsar stand accused of colluding to declare healthy people coronavirus-positive has cast an uncomfortable light on the vagaries of India’s testing infrastructure for the novel coronavirus.
A study spanning six continents, led by Dr. Mandeep Mehra, looked into the safety and benefit of using Hydroxychloroquine for COVID-19 patients
While the Delhi government touted the success of plasma therapy, the Centre was for exercising caution.
ICMR was put in charge of COVID-19 testing on February 3 2020. Two months later, the agency is still struggling to source enough tests, compromising India's fight against the novel coronavirus.