Health

Hyderabad, May 23 : Bharat Biotech may commence paediatric trials of its Covid-19 vaccine Covaxin from June, a senior company official said.The vaccine maker has already received permission to carry out trials on children aged 2-18 years.Bharat Biote…

Lucknow, May 23 : Uttar Pradesh has so far reported 506 cases of black fungus and 19 deaths.According to a status report prepared by the state Health Department, the infection has been recorded across 66 health centres of the state.The state governme…

New Delhi, May 23 : Indian Railways has delivered more than 15,284 Metric Tonnes (MT) of Liquid Medical Oxygen (LMO) in more than 936 tankers to various states across the country.About 234 Oxygen Expresses have completed their journey so far and brou…

Chennai, May 23 : Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M.K. Stalin on Sunday inaugurated a 130 oxygen bed facility at Chennai’s Saidapet.Health Minister Ma Subramaniam was also present.The facility has been arranged as part of the CREDAI’s CSR initiative and th…

Gurugram, May 23 : In two weeks’ time, Covid-19 positivity rate in Gurugram district has come down to 12.13 per cent from 24 per cent.Similarly, the recovery rate has also increased to 95.65 per cent, according to an official statement of the distric…

Hyderabad, May 23 : A baby, who had tested positive for Covid-19 a week after birth last month, has returned home after recovering at a private hospital here.Described as one of the youngest Covid survivors, the baby was discharged last week, doctors…

Chennai, May 23 : With the state enforcing strict lockdown from Monday, May 24, the vegetable prices have touched a new high with people scrambling to stock essentials in Tamil Nadu.Most of the vegetables are sold for double or triple rates on Sunday…

Chennai, May 23 : The Tamil Nadu government has prioritised some segments of the population for the vaccination in the age group of 18-44.A government order said that newspaper boys, auto rickshaw and taxi drivers, bus drivers and conductors and con…

New Delhi, May 23 : Although the Covid positivity rate in the national capital has declined to 2.5 per cent and the single-day cases also reduced to around 1,600, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Sunday announced that the ongoing lockdown has …

New Delhi, May 23 : Necessity is the mother of invention. For the student innovator Nihaal Singh Adarsh from Mumbai, his doctor mother’s necessity became the source of inspiration for his invention of a ‘Cool’ PPE kit.Named ‘Cov-Tech’, the compact an…