Health

Chennai, Aug 18 : The Tamil Nadu government would take a ‘final’ decision to reopen schools for classes nine to 12 by August 20.The state School Education Minister, Anbil Mahesh Poyyamozhi had held a meeting with the Chief Educational Officers and ot…

Mysuru, Aug 17 : The Karnataka government has announced that due to Covid, Dasara celebrations will remain a low-key affair, and authorities have decided to allow only those jumbos that test negative for Covid infection in the festivities.The negativ…

New Delhi, Aug 17 : The national capital recorded 38 fresh Covid cases in the last 24 hours, while four persons succumbed to the disease in the same time span, taking its overall Covid death toll to 25,073, as per the daily health bulletin released b…

Bengaluru, Aug 18 : Karnataka logged 1,298 new Covid cases, 1,833 discharges, and 32 deaths in the last 24 hours, the bulletin issued by the Health Department said on Tuesday. The positivity rate for the day stood at 1.01 per cent, while the case fat…

Mysuru, Aug 17 : Karnataka Minister S.T. Somashekar on Tuesday urged parents to send their children to schools without any fear.”The government is with you.All precautions have been taken to ensure the safety of children. The classes are beginning on…

Guwahati, Aug 17 : Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya on Tuesday said that the Centre has allocated around Rs 1,353 crore to northeast states under the emergency Covid response package-II.Chairing a review meeting on the public health response t…

Srinagar, Aug 17 : Recoveries outnumbered new Covid cases in J (and) K on Tuesday with 153 recoveries, 83 new cases, and one death reported during the last 24 hours.Officials said that 58 recoveries, 38 cases, and one death was reported from the Jamm…

Amaravati, Aug 17 : Andhra Pradesh on Tuesday registered 1,063 new Covid cases, taking the state’s overall tally beyond 19.9 lakh, even as its active cases dropped to 16,341.As many as 1,929 more persons recovered from the disease in the past 24 hour…

Thiruvananthapuram, Aug 17 : Even as festivities for the hugely popular Onam were set to begin, the Covid test positivity rate in Kerala stayed high, reaching 15.48 per cent on Tuesday.A statement issued here by Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan said 2…

Bengaluru, Aug 17 : Karnataka Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai on Tuesday issued a warning that strict action will be initiated against those who are selling fake RT-PCR negative test results in Bengaluru.”It has come to our notice that some people ar…