Month: February 2021

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If COVID-19 Hacked Your Sense of Smell, Smell Training Could Help Get It Back

Julie Walsh-Messinger 02/02/2021

Smell training is essentially smelling the same odours over...

FILE PHOTO: Outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in Widnes

Oxford Kept COVID-19 Vaccine Trial Volunteers in Dark About Dosing Error, Letter Shows

Steve Stecklow and Andrew MacAskill 02/02/2021

There is no suggestion there was any risk to...

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Five Children in Maharashtra Administered Sanitiser Drops Instead of Polio Vaccine

The affected children, aged below 5, were admitted to...

FILE PHOTO: A woman walks past a painting of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi a day before the inauguration of the COVID-19 vaccination drive on a street in Mumbai

Why 137% Increase in Budget Outlay for ‘Health and Wellbeing’ Is Misleading

The Wire Staff 01/02/2021

This figure is the result of clubbing the allocations...

India's Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman (C) and Krishnamurthy Subramanian (R), chief economic adviser pose during a photo opportunity outside their office before the presentation of the federal budget in the parliament in New Delhi

Explained: Despite Govt Claims, India’s Health Budget Only Around 0.34% of GDP

Dipa Sinha 01/02/2021

If a globally debilitating pandemic could not prompt the...

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Budget 2021: Sitharaman Cuts Education Allocation by Rs 6,088 Crore

The Wire Staff 01/02/2021

The Union government has allocated only Rs 54873.66 crore...

India's Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman stands next to Minister of State for Finance and Corporate Affairs Anurag Thakur as she leaves her office to present the federal budget in the parliament in New Delhi

Budget 2021: Sitharaman Allocates 70K Cr for Health, Plus 35K Cr for Vaccines

The Wire Staff 01/02/2021

The government has announced a new healthcare scheme with...