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Nagpur becomes countrys 2nd largest human testing centre for COVAXIN

August 3, 2020, 3:13 PM

Radhika Dhawad | Nagpur

COVAXIN

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Nagpur became India’s second largest centre of human testing for COVID-19 vaccine ? COVAXIN after Post Graduate Institute (PGI) of Medical Sciences, Rohtak. Citys Gillurkar Multispecialty Hospital and Research Centre is one of the 12 centres in the country to perform human trials.

Gillurkar Hospital in Nagpur performed trials on 55 people and sent their blood samples to a laboratory in New Delhi. Dr Ashish Tajne, Research Head at Gillurkar Multispeciality Hospital told Nation Next, All the 55 people are absolutely fine post trials. We’ve been following up their health status on a daily basis. No side effect could be seen so far. The test is satisfactory.

Speaking further, Dr Tajne said, Out of 750 people, trials on 375 people across 12 centres have been performed. We’re right now in phase one. If the overall results are satisfactory, we?ll proceed to phase two soon.

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Active COVID cases near 30,000 mark in Nagpur

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4 years ago

January 25, 2022

Radhika Dhawad | Nagpur

Nagpur’s COVID-19 tally, on Tuesday, January 25, reached 5,43,064 (till 5 pm) as 4028 (972 from rural and 2956 from city) new cases were recorded in a single day.

Also, active COVID cases, as on Tuesday, could be seen inching closer to 30,000 mark in the district.

Six people lost their lives (one from rural and five from city) on Tuesday. Till now, 10,183 people have lost their lives due to COVID-19 in the district. Total tests taken were 11,377.

While patients who recovered on Tuesday were 2519, the total number of recovered patients stood at 503729.

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Nagpur reports 90 COVID cases in past 24 hours

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4 years ago

January 2, 2022

Radhika Dhawad | Nagpur

Nagpur’s COVID-19 tally on Sunday, January 2 reached 4,94,193 (till 5 pm) as 90 (73 city, nine rural) more people tested positive for the virus.

Also, five patients recovered on Sunday taking the number of recoveries to 4,83,664.

Till now, 10123 people have lost their lives due to COVID in the district. As of now, there are 406 active COVID patients in the district.

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ALARMING! Nagpur reports 88 COVID cases in past 24 hours

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4 years ago

December 31, 2021

Radhika Dhawad | Nagpur

Nagpur registered 88 (81 from city) new COVID-19 positive cases on Friday, December 31. Nagpur previously had recorded as minimum as six cases on December 24.