Health

Chennai, June 8 : Vaccination for Covid-19 has been temporarily suspended in Madurai district due to the shortage of doses.The Tamil Nadu Health Department has not received any information regarding the arrival of new stock of vaccines and the resump…

Agra, June 8 : Doctors at Sarojini Naidu Medical College (SNMC) in Agra have successfully operated on a newborn who had symptoms of black fungus or Mucormycosis.Akhilesh Pratap Singh, head of ENT Department, told reporters that the 14-day-old baby gi…

New Delhi, June 8 : India on Tuesday logged 86,498 new Covid infections in 24 hours, less than one lakh cases for the first time in past 66 days, the Union Health and Family Welfare Ministry said.It is also the lowest number of cases since April 2 wh…

Mysuru, June 8 : The University of Mysore (UoM) has jointly developed a self Covid detection kit in collaboration with Hyderabad-based Lorven Biologics Private Limited.Mysore University’s former Vice Chancellor and a member of the All India Institute…

Bengaluru, June 8 : In spite of the daily positive cases declining, Covid tally in Karnataka crossed the 27-lakh mark while 340 patients succumbed to the infection in the last 24 hours, said the state health bulletin on Monday.”With 11,958 new cases …

New Delhi, June 7 : The Congress on Monday contended that the Narendra Modi government’s decision to provide free vaccines to all above 18 years of age was taken after the Supreme Court pulled it up and questioned its vaccine policy.Addressing a pres…

New Delhi, June 7 : The Department of Women and Child Development (WCD) under the Delhi government will prepare a list of children who lost one or both their parents due to the Covid-19 pandemic, WCD Minister Rajendra Pal Gautam said on Monday.Review…

Bengaluru, June 7 : Karnataka Chief Minister B.S. Yediyurappa on Monday unveiled a 56-bed intensive care unit facility at the state-run Sir C.V. Raman Hospital in Bengaluru for treating Covid patients.Sponsored by Confederation of Indian Industry (CI…

New Delhi, June 7 : Following several requests for second dose of vaccines from people planning to travel abroad, the Centre on Monday issued guidelines to states and Union Territories to provide vaccines to such people who have completed 28 days of …

New Delhi, June 7 : NITI Aayog’s Member (Health) V.K. Paul on Monday expressed hope that the third wave of Covid-19 pandemic can be prevented by following appropriate behaviour instructed by the government.Paul’s remarks came while presenting a brief…