The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) suggests a wait for 90 days from the day one tests positive for #COVID19 if he/she has not received the vaccine.
Leading vaccine scientist Dr #GagandeepKang said data from the UK shows there is 80% protection following a natural infection with the #SARSCoV2 virus. It is fine to even wait up to six months, she said.
The second dose can be given eight weeks after the person tests positive for #COVID19 infection, according to Dr V Ravi, nodal officer for genetic confirmation of #SARSCoV2, Karnataka. The body starts producing antibodies after the infection and it is akin to getting a #vaccine.
Scientists are still learning about natural and vaccine-induced #immunity. According to the CDC, it typically takes two weeks for the body to build protection after #vaccination, and hence it is possible to get infected.
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There is no need to panic if the second dose is delayed, but do not defer it indefinitely, said Dr Shashank Joshi, member of the Maharashtra #COVID19 task force. For #Covaxin, the gap can be extended up to 45 days & for #Covishield, the second dose can be taken three months.
In a revised set of guidelines, the #HealthMinistry recommended that a #COVID19 patient can discontinue home isolation “after at least 10 days have passed from the onset of symptoms or from the date of sampling of asymptomatic cases” and there is “no fever for three days”.
The Health Ministry also said that one need not undergo a #COVID19 test after the home isolation period is over. However, it is recommended that the patient consults a doctor to ensure he or she follows home isolation correctly.
“Aaj phone nahi kiya sab theek-thak hai beta (You didn’t call today… is everything okay?)”.
A sense of dread gripped Satbir Brella, a driver who lives in New Delhi’s Palam colony, as his WhatsApp text to his London-based daughter Harshita Brella, 24, at the crack of dawn on November 13 remained unread for hours.
It was extremely unlike his younger daughter, nicknamed Sweety, who spoke to her family daily since moving to London on April 30, after her marriage to Pankaj Lamba, 23.
After a 40-minute video call on November 10 — while she was making pakoras, palak puri and aloo sabzi at her London house — Harshita seemed to have gone missing.
Every day, 200 men and their horses spend hours training to be the fittest and the finest. For the President’s Bodyguard, the most senior regiment of the Army tasked with escorting the country’s first citizen, there is zero scope for error.
Divya A visits the President’s Estate where the men and their steed match their steps.
Speaking to #TheIndianExpress, the younger woman, one of two women that were paraded naked and sexually assaulted in #Manipur, said: “The police were there with the mob which was attacking our village. The police picked us up from near home, and took us a little away from the… https://t.co/D3BdnhNT6otwitter.com/i/web/status/1…
A day after a video of two women from the Kuki-Zomi community being paraded naked and sexually assaulted in #Manipur surfaced, one of the victims told The Indian Express that they had been “left to the mob by the police”.
Last week, the Delhi government reopened its schools for all grades after almost two years of closure. On Friday, The Indian Express followed Class II student Mohammed Zaid on his first day back — to understand the challenges a long hiatus in learning could pose. #schoolsreopen
When 7-year-old Mohammed Zaid left home for his first day of school, he said he could not remember the friends he had in kindergarten before pandemic struck. He only had a memory of a friend named Ayush Kumar, but he had not spoken to him for the almost two years of no school.
Across Delhi, schools reopened for primary and middle school children on February 14 after an almost two-year closure, punctuated by fits and starts of unsuccessful reopening attempts in November 2021. #schoolsreopen#COVID19
MLA @ShelarAshish, head of BJP’s election management committee for BMC polls, speaks about the prospects of his party in the elections, his apprehensions about the likely consolidation of Muslim votes behind the Sena and his party’s plans on property tax waiver for house owners.
He ( @AUThackeray ) takes up issues which are a disconnect with Mumbaikars. There is a rift between Yuva Sena and Shiv Sena: Ashish Shelar
Or else what explains #ShivSena MLAs speaking against deputy CM #AjitPawar, or NCP’S minister Jitendra Awadh speaking against Shiv Sena minister Eknath Shinde: Ashish Shelar
#ExpressExclusive: Slamming a set of what he called “self-appointed custodians of the world,” External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar said,“India is not looking for their approval, is not willing to play the game they want to play.”
On the ground, things were a little different.
And in a move that raises questions of Constitutional propriety, it also sent these to the Lok Sabha Secretariat which is an independent office that functions under the advice of the Lok Sabha Speaker.
In its response to the RTI request by The Indian Express, the MEA shared emails but did not share the two attachments citing Section 8(c) of the #RTI Act, which relates to breach of privilege of Parliament.