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#It’s a deal: The World Trade Organization concluded deals Friday on tackling food insecurity, curbing harmful fishing subsidies and temporarily waiving Covid-19 vaccine patents after days of round-the-clock talks.
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The ministerial conference also agreed on deals on e-commerce, responding to pandemics and reforming the organisation itself#Covaxin in kids: Bharat Biotech has said that Covaxin, its whole-virion inactivated Covid-19 vaccine candidate, has proven to be safe, well-tolerated, and highly immunogenic in paediatric subjects in phase II/III study.
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The vaccine maker has five crore doses of Covaxin ready#Friday review: India’s Covid genome sequencing facility, the Indian SARS-CoV-2 Genomics Consortium (Insacog), will review data to look into reasons for “breakthrough” Covid infections and also check on possibility of virus sub-lineages or new variants. The review meeting is scheduled on Friday, sources in the Health Ministry told BusinessLine.
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To look into reasons for breakthrough infections; meeting scheduled on Friday#Daily tally: India reported 12,847 new cases in the last 24 hours, and 14 deaths.
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Covid-19 vaccination: India has administered over 195.8 crore total doses so far
15,27,365 total doses of the vaccine have been administered in the last 24 hours#Kerala surge: Kerala has continued to lead the rest of the States both in the number of daily new Covid-19 cases and the test positivity rate (TPR) as a runaway spiral in infection, kicking off from just around the time of school reopening, has shown no signs of relent.
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Covid spiral in Kerala unrelenting as test positivity zooms to new high
Chilling reminder of peak transmission last year, say public health activists#TN crosses 500: New Covid cases in Tamil Nadu on Thursday crossed the 500-mark to 552 taking the total number to 34,58,997. No Covid deaths were reported.
#Under pressure: The fiscal conditions among States in India are showing warning signs of stress, with a Reserve Bank of India article identifying Bihar, Kerala, Punjab, Rajasthan, and West Bengal as highly distressed States among 10 States with the highest debt burden, going by the debt/GSDP ratio. Stretched State government finances exacerbated by Covid-19, is one of the reasons the article mentions.
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Fiscal conditions among States showing warning signs of building stress: RBI Bulletin
Slowdown in tax revenue, a high share of committed expenditure and rising subsidy burden have stretched State government finances#Chips are down: The Russia-Ukraine war has crippled the supply chain of semiconductors and pushed up gas prices, while the resurgence of Covid-19 has led to lockdowns in Chinese cities, all of which could impact business, warned Tata Motors in its latest annual report.
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The carmaker says it may be forced to stop production in some or all of its plants#Turn to spices: A Covid-influenced trend for the industry to capitalise on is to stress medical properties and potential health benefits that spices such as turmeric, ginger and cinnamon offer.
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Spices trade should focus on Brand India, Covid influenced trends: Drip Capital
According to the report, development of complex spices would better cater to global markets
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