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account of the information products produced by India Science.
1. Weekly COVID-19 video bulletin: Produced in both Hindi and English on a weekly basis from 7 July 2020, COVID-19 bulletin apprises the audience about the latest developments happening in the S&T scenario in India that are helping in managing and overcoming the challenges thrown up by the pandemic. Vigyan Prasar produced a daily COVID-19 bulletin from 11 April to 6 July 2020. Thereafter, a weekly bulletin is being produced, which provides details about the most important S&T updates from the country related
to COVID-19. From January 2021 onwards the COVID-19 bulletin carried news about the vaccination drive initiated by the Government of India.
2. COVID-19 Explained: Short films to explain the important research findings related to COVID-19 and COVID-19 vaccination in layman’s language are produced on a weekly basis. The topics chosen for COVID-19 Explained cater to the curiosity of the common man towards COVID-19.
3. Facebook live sessions on interviews of various stakeholders on COVID-19 vaccination programme.
4. Facebook and India Science live
sessions on interviews with experts on COVID-19 vaccination.
5. Live phone in programme: A live phone in programme on COVID-19 vaccination is telecast from India Science on every Monday and Tuesday. Experts from the field give answers to the questions related to COVID-19 vaccination received from the audience.
6. India Science started ‘Corona Ko Harana Hai’ from April 2021. In this programme, India Science team conduct interviews on COVID-19-related different issues with top medical professionals of the country.
7. India Science makes infographics on COVID-19-related different issues regularly.
8. COVID-19 vaccine: Fact File also telecast every Saturday from India Science.
Contact info:
kapil@vigyanprasar.gov.in
Website link:
https://www.indiascience.in/
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