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The Indo-U.S. Vaccine Action Program (VAP), is a 33-year collaboration between the U.S. National Institutes of Health, the Indian Department of Biotechnology (DBT) and the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) along with other partners.VAP is being implemented to promote focused and applied research on new and improved vaccines and immuno-diagnostics by bringing together leading Indian and US scientists.

The Ministry of Tourism (MoT) launched a dedicated web portal - "Stranded in India”, to provide foreigners stuck in India, due to covid19 with necessary information on reaching the appropriate authorities.

Nagaland is the first state to levy imposed a Covid-19 cess of Rs 5 per litre on diesel and Rs 6 per litre on petrol.

GAVI is an international organization that helps vaccinate children across the globe against deadly infectious diseases.India has pledged to contribute USD 15 million to the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunizations (GAVI), during the virtual Global Vaccine Summit held in June 2020.

COVID India Seva (@CovidIndiaSeva), was launched by Govt of India, on Twitter to establish a direct channel of communication with millions of Indians amid the pandemic.This initiative is aimed at enabling transparent e-governance delivery in real-time and answering citizen queries swiftly, at scale, especially in crisis situations like the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.

Aarogya Setu app uses the smartphone`s bluetooth technology to scan for similar users of the app and assess the risk status of that specific individual, if he/ she had been infected or not.

The prime minister,Narendra Modi announced a ‘Janata Curfew’ from 7 am to 9 pm on Sunday, 22 March, to check the spread of coronavirus.He also made it clear that the ‘Janta Curfew’ is the beginning of a long battle against coronavirus outbreak.

On 11 March 2020, the Cabinet Secretary of India instructed all states and Union territories to invoke provisions of Section 2 of the Epidemic Diseases Act, 1897 following the spread of COVID-19 pandemic in the country.

Contact tracing is the process of identifying, assessing, and managing people who have been exposed to a disease to prevent onward transmission.

The Government of India and the Asian Development Bank (ADB) signed a $1.5 billion loan agreement for the COVID-19 Active Response and Expenditure Support Programme (CARES Programme) that will support the government’s response to theCOVID-19 pandemic.

COVID-19 Technology Access Pool (C-TAP) is an initiative of World Health Organization (WHO) aimed at making vaccines, tests, treatments and other health technologies to fight COVID-19 accessible to all.It will provide a one-stop shop for scientific knowledge, data and intellectual property to be shared equitably by the global community.

Aarogya Setu Mitr - was launched by the government of India as a public-private initiative for people to get free doctor tele-consultations, book medicines and lab tests.

India manufactures 70 per cent of the world’s supply of hydroxychloroquine, according to Indian Pharmaceutical Alliance (IPA).

Indian Air Force (IAF) launched an 18-hour operation - 'Operation Sanjeevani' at the time of coronavirus pandemic and airlifted 6.2 tonnes of essential medicines and hospital consumables with its C-130 transport aircraft and delivered it to the Maldives.

National Institute of Virology, Pune, has successfully developed the 1st indigenous ELISA (enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay) antibody test kit - COVID KAVACH ELISA for antibody detection of COVID-19. It will be helpful to detect antibodies in the blood to find out if an individual was infected with COVID-19 infection or not.

A Rs.20 lakh crore relief package was announced, as part of the Atmanirbhar Bharat plan to revive the Indian economy affected by covid19 pandemic.

The King George Medical University in Uttar Pradesh is the first government hospital in the country to successfully launch the plasma therapy treatment for COVID-19 patients.First dose of the plasma therapy was given yesterday to a 58-year old patient.

The Union Health Ministry has classified the health facilities into three categories: COVID Care Centre, Dedicated COVID Health Centre and Dedicated COVID Hospital.

GARUD stands for ‘Government Authorisation for Relief Using Drones’.The GARUD portal was launched by Ministry of Civil Aviation (MoCA) and Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) for providing fast track conditional exemptions to government agencies for COVID-19 related RPAS (Remotely Piloted Aircraft System)/ drone operations.

A new high-pressure ventilator was developed by at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California to treat coronavirus (COVID-19) patients.

The education ministry has launched 'VidyaDaan 2.0' - an initiative to curate content for the CBSE curriculum from individuals and organizations across the country.It is conceptualized as a common national program for individuals & organizations across the country to donate/contribute e-learning content for school education to ensure continuity of quality learning.

Goa is the 1st state to integrate allopathy and Ayurveda to treat COVID-19 patients.The state government was integrating allopathy and Ayurveda to treat COVID-19 patients and those quarantined at different facilities in the state."Although Ayurveda cannot cure COVID-19, it will certainly boost patients' immunity", Goa CM had said.

COVAXIN, India's indigenous COVID-19 vaccine by Bharat Biotech is developed in collaboration with the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) - National Institute of Virology (NIV).

Mission Sagar was India’s initiative to deliver Covid-19 related assistance to the countries in the Indian Ocean region. As part of this Mission, INS Kesari successively visited Maldives, Mauritius, Madagascar, Comoros and Seychelles to deliver assistance

Operation Warp Speed (OWS) aims to deliver 300 million doses of a safe, effective vaccine for COVID-19 by January 2021, as part of a broader strategy to accelerate the development, manufacturing, and distribution of COVID-19 vaccines, therapeutics, and diagnostics.OWS is a partnership among components of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), including the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the National Institutes of Health (NIH), and the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA), and the Department of Defense (DoD).

The Indian army chief general Manoj Mukund Naravane launched the initiative ''Operation Namaste'' to fight against the coronavirus infection and extend all possible assistance to the government in containing the pandemic.

Indian Railways introduced the services of Artificial Intelligence based chatbot 'ASKDISHA' to resolve the queries of railway passengers over the internet pertaining to various services offered on IRCTC platform.

Indian Navy has launched Operation “Samudra Setu” - meaning “Sea Bridge”, as a part of national effort to repatriate Indian citizens stranded overseas due to covid19 pandemic.

Electronic Vaccine Intelligence Network (eVIN) is an innovative technological solution aimed at strengthening immunization supply chain systems across the country. It aims to provide real-time information on vaccine stocks and flows, and storage temperatures across all cold chain points in the country.This is being implemented under National Health Mission by Ministry of Health and Family Welfare.

R0 or R-naught is the reproductive number and is an indicator of how contagious a disease is, or how easily it spreads from person to person in a community.

India's first dedicated COVID-19 hospital was setup at Seven Hills Hospital, Mumbai.Sir H.N. Reliance Foundation Hospital in collaboration with the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC), have come up with the first-of-its-kind in India.The initiative is fully funded by Reliance Foundation.

"Vande Bharat Mission was launched by Govt of India aims at  bringing  home stranded Indians in many countries  due to Covid-19 pandemic.As part of the efforts, Air India will operate special flights to evacuate Indian citizens from various parts of the world and bring them back to our home land."

Hydroxychloroquine is a medicine used to prevent and treat malaria.It is also used in the treatment of lupus and rheumatoid arthritis.

Serum Institute of India (SII) has tied up with pharma firm AstraZeneca, which is developing a covid19 vaccine in partnership with Oxford University.

Dr.APJ Abdul Kalam served as the 1st Principal Scientific Advisor to the Government of India, in the rank of Cabinet Minister, from November 1999 to November 2001.

Herd immunity is a term used to denote the stage when a major section of the population achieves natural immunity to the disease by getting infected or through vaccination, making the spread of the disease from person to person unlikely.

YUKTI (Young India Combating COVID with Knowledge, Technology and Innovation) is a unique portal and dashboard  that aims to cover the various initiatives and efforts of the institutions in academics, research especially related to CoVID, social initiatives by institutions and the measures taken for the betterment of the total well-being of the students.

Ayush Sanjivani is an app developed by the Ministry of Ayurveda, Yoga & Naturopathy, Unani, Siddha, and Homoeopathy (AYUSH) and Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MEITY).It aims to collect data on acceptance and usage of AYUSH tips and measures, among the population and its impact in prevention of Covid-19.

A2a is the most dominant coronavirus clade in India. Out of the virus samples found in india, 62 per cent of them were A2a and 41 % were of A3i, according to the Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology of the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR-CCMB).

IFAD has launched a multi-donor COVID-19 Rural Poor Stimulus Facility (RPSF) aims to improve the food security and resilience of poor rural people by supporting production, market access and employment due during the covid19 period.