Health

New Delhi, July 8 : India recorded 45,892 new Covid-19 cases in the past 24 hours and 817 deaths, said the Union Health and Family Welfare Ministry on Thursday.Thursday is the 30th consecutive day when India reported less than one lakh new coronaviru…

Lucknow, July 8 : The Ganga River has been declared Covid free. The finding bears significance in the backdrop of the fact that BSIP scientists had earlier found traces of the SARS-CoV2 virus in the water of Gomti river in Lucknow.After a two-month r…

New Delhi, July 8 : The Ministry of AYUSH has rejected a study published in the Journal of Clinical and Experimental Hepatology, a peer reviewed journal of the Indian National Association for the Study of the Liver.This study mentions that use of the…

Chennai, July 8 : The Tamil Nadu government on Wednesday informed the Madras High Court that the three suggestions of the Central government on temporary arrangements for admission to the 150 MBBS seats at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences …

Amaravati, July 7 : Andhra Pradesh on Wednesday registered 3,166 new Covid cases, pushing the state’s overall tally beyond 19.1 lakh, even as its active caseload dropped to 32,356.As many as 4,019 more people recovered from the disease in the past 2…

New Delhi, July 7 : Senior BJP leader Mansukh Mandaviya was on Wednesday given charge of the key Health and Family Welfare Ministry, amid the Covid pandemic, as well as the Chemicals and Fertilisers Ministry.Mandaviya was previously the Minister of S…

Srinagar, July 7 : Recoveries continued to stay ahead of new cases in J (and) K on Wednesday as 419 patients recovered while 280 new cases and 4 deaths were reported in last 24 hours.Officials said that 197 recoveries, 131 cases, and three deaths wer…

Chennai, July 7 : A four-year-old Russian boy who was on ventilator for the past three years at MGM Healthcare is now doing fine after a bilateral lung transplant, said doctors here.The Russian boy was diagnosed with fibrosing alveolitis when he was …

New Delhi, July 7 : Union Home Secretary Ajay Kumar Bhalla on Wednesday directed all northeastern states to ensure strict containment measures as per extant guidelines while noting that out of 73 districts in the country with Case Positivity Rate (CP…

New Delhi, July 7 : The Delta variant of Covid-19 can possibly shatter the vaccine cover, as SARS CoV-2 — the virus which causes the disease — has the potential to acquire deadly mutations, health experts said on Wednesday.As new variants are form…