Health

Mumbai, June 10 : Maharashtra’s Covid-19 death toll catapulted by a whopping 1,915 – a new high – while new infections shot above the 11,000 mark after five days, health officials said on Thursday.Against 461 deaths declared on Wednesday, the state h…

Amaravati, June 10 : The active Covid-19 caseload in Andhra Pradesh dropped below the 1 lakh-mark to 99,057 on Thursday, amid the abating second wave of the pandemic.The state reported 8,110 new Covid-19 cases on Thursday, increasing its overall tall…

Srinagar, June 10 : A total of 1,117 new Covid cases and 25 deaths came to light on Thursday in J (and) K while 2,363 patients were discharged from hospitals after recovery.Officials said 332 cases and 13 deaths were reported from the Jammu division,…

Mumbai, June 10 : The IIT Bombay has set up the ‘Koita Centre for Digital Health’ – India’s first to focus on driving academics, research and industry collaboration in digital health – in collaboration with the Koita Foundation (KF), a statement said…

New Delhi, June 10 : The Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) on Thursday granted approval to global medtech company Meril Diagnostics for its self-use rapid antigen test for Covid-19 that can provide accurate results in just 15 minutes.CoviFind…

Thiruvananthapuram, June 10 : Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan said Thursday that another 14,424 people tested Covid positive out of the 1,07,250 samples sent for testing in the past 24 hours.But while the test positivity rate (TPR) came down f…

Guwahati, June 10 : The DRDO supported first ever 300-bed Covid hospital in northeast India was inaugurated in Guwahati on Thursday by Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma.The modern Covid Care Hospital was set up by converting a portion of the S…

New Delhi, June 10 : As per a study, Gurugram is a more suitable city to live in from a Covid perspective as compared to Mumbai and Bengaluru.”We believe that considering factors such as population density, open area ratio and hospital infrastructure…

Chennai, June 10 : The Tamil Nadu government might extend the lockdown, which is in force in the state by one more week, with Chief Minister M.K.Stalin likely to make an announcement on this either later on Thursday or Friday morning.Stalin had condu…

Patna, June 10 : Facing criticism over revised Covid-19 deaths in Bihar, state’s health minister Mangal Pandey on Thursday said that the delay in reporting deaths at village and district level is the main reason for spike in number in Bihar.He said, …