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# New therapies like monoclonal antibodies, for example, are not covered by health insurance . Though it’s a one-dose therapy, it costs about ₹60,000. And there are other such drugs, that don’t get covered because they don’t feature in the treatment guidelines. Here’s why insurers shy away from them.
# Delhi HC warns people thronging markets, malls and the hills of breach of Covid-19 protocol and hastening of the third wave . This, even as Mumbai’s experts warn of the next surge by the year end.
# CSIR-Tata MD (of Govt’s Feluda CRISPER test-fame) expand testing capacity in rural areas , preparing for the next surge.
# While States and organisations have made arrangements to make it easier for the vaccination of the differently-abled , challenges remain.
# A group of researchers found fragments of the genes of SARS-COV-2 virus (novel Coronavirus) in water samples collected from the Sabarmati river. But there’s no need to panic, they add.
# The risk of hospitalisation comes down by 75-80 per cent in people who have completed vaccination, according to a recent study.
# And another study from AIIMS allays fears that the third wave of the Covid-19 pandemic would affect children between 2-18 years.
# The PM launches a crash course to train frontline workers .
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