Health

New Delhi, May 20 : In wake of growing cases of mucormycosis or ‘black fungus’, the Delhi government has decided to open dedicated centres at three city hospitals for the treatment of the disease in Covid-19 recovered patients.These centres will be o…

Mumbai, May 20 : With deaths rising up again on Thursday, Maharashtra’s Covid-19 death toll crossed the 85,000 mark, while as new infections declined, the state achieved a record five million plus getting cured of the scourge, health officials said.A…

Chandigarh, May 20 : A day after the Punjab government notified black fungus as a disease under the Epidemic Diseases Act, Chief Minister Amarinder Singh on Thursday directed the Health Department to ensure that the necessary medicines for treating i…

Chennai, May 20 : The Tamil Nadu government should take over the HLL Biotech Ltd’s integrated vaccine complex at Chengalpattu by bidding successfully and ask Bharat Biotech Ltd to fill and pack its Covaxin vaccine for Covid-19, suggests group of note…

Srinagar, May 20 : Covid crisis continued in J (and) K on Wednesday as 67 deaths and 4,169 new cases were reported during the last 24 hours.Officials said 1,518 new cases and 41 deaths were reported in the Jammu division and 2,651 cases and 26 deaths…

New Delhi, May 20 : Delhi on Thursday reported 3,231 new Covid-19 cases, the lowest single-day spike since April 2, when the city had registered 3,594 new infections, said the daily health bulletin issued by the Delhi government.The national capital’…

Lucknow, May 20 : UP chief minister Yogi Adityanath has said that compensation for families of government employees who have died in the pandemic would be ensured. “Every death is sad and the state government’s condolences to each employee of state g…

New Delhi, May 20 : Nabila Sadiq, an assistant professor at the Sarojini Naidu Centre for Womens Studies, Jamia Millia Islamia, had sent an SOS on May 4 for an ICU bed through Twitter.While she managed to get a bed at the Fortis Hospital in Faridabad…

New Delhi, May 20 : Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Thursday provided financial assistance of Rs 1 crore to the family of corona warrior late Sheoji Mishra, a Trained Graduate Teacher (TGT) in English at a Rajkiya Sarvodaya Bal Vidyalaya (RS…

Chandigarh, May 20 : Amid projections and concerns of a possible third wave of Covid-19 and its impact on children, Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh on Thursday ordered the Health Department to go into mission mode with preparation, which will …