Health

Chennai, Oct 15 : Play schools and Kindergarten will reopen in Tamil Nadu from November 1 onwards. Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu M.K. Stalin announced this on Thursday.The state government has also allowed temples in the states to open on all days, wh…

New Delhi, Oct 15 : In the last 24 hours, India reported total 16,862 fresh Covid-19 cases and 379 deaths, the Union Health Ministry said on Friday.The new fatalities increased the overall death toll to 4,51,814, according to the data shared by the M…

New Delhi, Oct 14 : India has recently sent crores of Covid vaccine shots to four nations in its neighborhood under the “Vaccine Maitri” programme, it was announced on Thursday.Ministry of External Affairs spokesperson Arindam Bagchi said that India …

New Delhi, Oct 14 : The national capital on Thursday reported 28 fresh Covid cases, taking its tally to 14,39,311, as per the Delhi Health Department bulletin.However, no fatality has been reported in the city for the fourth day now.The city’s death …

New Delhi, Oct 14 : The National Commission for Protection of Child Rights on Thursday issued notice to the Delhi government on a complaint about a promotional video that features minor school students.The apex child rights panel said that the video,…

Thiruvananthapuram, Oct 14 : Kerala’s daily Covid tally has, of late, seen a fluctuating trend with 9,246 people turning positive on Thursday after 88,733 samples were send for testing in the past 24 hours, while the test positivity rate stood at 10….

New Delhi, Oct 14 : While Covid-19 established the importance of handwashing in preventing disease, it also pointed at the glaring lack of hand hygiene that exists across the world.As the world slowly recovers from the pandemic, the importance of han…

New Delhi, Oct 14 : The Centre has launched a ‘One Health’ project under the Department of Biotechnology (DBT) that envisages carrying out surveillance of important bacterial, viral, and parasitic infections of zoonotic as well as transboundary patho…

Chennai, Oct 14 : The Tamil Nadu health department would not be carrying out the sixth mega vaccination drive on October 17, Sunday due to the Ayudha Pooja holidays.The state has been conducting mega vaccine drives since September 12 and a huge turno…

New Delhi, Oct 14 : More and more young people are using e-cigarettes, which are marketed as a safer option than traditional smoking.This can be however, grossly misleading as vaping aerosols contain nearly 2,000 chemicals, the vast majority of which…