Health

New Delhi, Aug 19 : India on Thursday registered a spike in single day caseload and and reported a total of 36,401 fresh cases in the past 24 hrs.A total of 530 deaths were also reported in the same time span, pushing the death toll due to Covid-19 t…

Chennai, Aug 19 : Tamil Nadu Health Minister Ma Subramanian on Thursday said the state’s first genome sequencing analysis laboratory to detect Coronavirus variants like Delta will soon be opened in the state.In a statement, the Minister said that the…

New Delhi, Aug 19 : A consortium of doctors and researchers from India, Brazil, Russia, and South Africa have partnered to conduct a study on the epidemiological impact and intersection of the Covid-19 and Tuberculosis (TB) pandemics in these countri…

New Delhi, Aug 18 : The Union Cabinet, chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, on Wednesday was apprised of the MoUs between the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) and the GARDP Foundation on Antimicrobial Resistance Research and Innovation, …

Gurugram, Aug 18 : The ongoing political unrest in Afghanistan and the Covid-19 pandemic have had a huge economical impact on Gurugram’s medical tourism.Prominent hospitals in Gurugram have claimed that a huge dip in admission of foreign nationals ha…

Amaravati, Aug 18 : Andhra Pradesh on Tuesday registered 1,433 new Covid cases, taking its overall tally beyond 19.9 lakh, even as its active cases dropped to 15,944.As many as 1,815 more persons recovered from the disease in the past 24 hours, incre…

Bengaluru, Aug 18 : Karnataka logged 1,365 new Covid cases against 1,558 discharges, while 22 fresh deaths were reported in the last 24 hours, a statement said on WednesdayThe positivity rate for the day stood at 0.76 per cent and the case fatality r…

Srinagar, Aug 18 : Recoveries continued to remain ahead of new Covid cases in J (and) K on Wednesday with 132 recovering while 100 new cases and one death were reported during the last 24 hours.Officials said 32 discharges from hospitals, 26 cases, a…

Hyderabad, Aug 18 : Covid-19’s second wave has come to an end in Telangana and this is the time to reopen educational institutions in the state, a senior health official said on Wednesday.Director, Public Health and Family Welfare, Dr.G. Srinivasa Ra…

Thiruvananthapuram, Aug 18 : There appears to be no respite from Covid in Kerala as on Wednesday, another 21,427 turned positive after 1,38,225 samples were tested in the past 24 hours and the daily test positivity rate reached 15.50 per cent, a stat…