Health

Panaji, May 21 : The Goa cabinet on Friday resolved to extend the ongoing curfew in the state to May 31, Chief Minister Pramod Sawant said after a meeting of the state cabinet.”We are extending state curfew to May 31.Norms will continue as they were,…

New Delhi, May 21 : On average, 1 in 7 Covid (14 per cent) patients were hospitalised in India, during the second wave, higher than the western world where cumulatively 5 to 10 per cent of Covid positive patients have been hospitalised. According to …

New Delhi, May 21 : Delhi Health Minister Satyendar Jain said on Friday said that there were close to 200 cases of ‘black fungus’ reported so far in the Capital and advised people to report such cases immediately to doctors and not take medicines on …

New Delhi, May 21 : Siemens India has announced a slew of relief measures amid the pandemic and enhanced its contribution of Rs 40 crore towards Covid-relief.In April 2020, Siemens pledged a contribution of Rs 20 crore towards its efforts against COV…

Chennai, May 21 : With the Tamil Nadu government sounding an alert of surging mucormycosis or black fungus cases, the authorities have ordered 5,000 vials of Amphotericin from a private pharmaceutical company in Hosur.The medicine is effective in tre…

Nellore (Andhra Pradesh), May 21 : With arrangements in place for distribution of an ayurvedic cure for Covid, large number of people have descended upon Krishnapatnam town in Nellore district, since Friday early morning.However, with no clearance f…

New Delhi, May 21 : Proponents of lab escape can explain all the available facts about SARS2 considerably more easily than can those who favour natural emergence, said Nicholas Wade, a science writer.Writing in the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, Wade…

Panaji, May 21 : The Goa government has dedicated a special ward comprising 20 beds to treat patients with ‘black fungus’ Health Minister Vishwajit Rane said on Friday.”In view of the cases related to black fungus, we are dedicating a separate ward o…

Jammu, May 21 : The first case of ‘Black Fungus’ (Mucormycosis) was reported on Friday in Jammu and Kashmir from government medical college hospital in Jammu.Shashi Sodan, head of the microbiology department and presently also functioning as the prin…

Panaji, May 21 : Victory in the long drawn rape trial, came with heartbreak for former editor-in-chief of Tehelka Tarun Tejpal, who rued the death of his lead defence lawyer Rajeev Gomes, who succumbed to Covid-19 on May 13 this year.Tejpal was clear…