Health

Lucknow, May 19 : With the Covid condition in the state improving by the day, the recovery rate in the state has gone up to 91.40 per cent.Uttar Pradesh has recorded a decline by 60 per cent in the number of active Covid cases since its peak on April…

Amaravati, May 19 : With the Covid pandemic putting pressure on manpower resources, Andhra Pradesh has turned its attention to improvement of medical and health training capabilities.Chief minister YS Jagan Mohan Reddy said that 16 teaching hospital…

New Delhi, May 19 : The Union Health Ministry on Wednesday announced that Covid vaccination should be deferred by three months after recovery from the illness and if infected after the first dose, the second dose should be deferred by three months af…

Chennai, May 19 : Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M.K. Stalin on Wednesday told industrialists that they can pay directly to the vendors from whom state government organisations source Covid-19 related items.Addressing industrialists here Stalin also reque…

Chennai, May 19 : Attendants of Covid-19 patients carried out a protest outside the Rajiv Gandhi general hospital here on Wednesday.The protest continued for two hours.The hospital had permitted one attendant each for a Covid-19 patient but around 10…

Bhopal, May 19 : A dedicated task force will be set up in Madhya Pradesh to oversee arrangements for the treatment of black fungus or ‘mucormycosis’.Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan has issued instructions in this regard.Chouhan in a video confer…

New Delhi, May 19 : Indias second Covid wave is a humanitarian rather than an economic crisis, according to Japanese brokerage, Nomura.”India’s second wave has likely peaked, but in its wake, it has unleashed a devastating human cost.A more virulent …

New Delhi, May 19 : India has set another landmark by conducting highest ever — 20 lakh tests in a single day — a global record, Union Health Ministry said on Wednesday.The achievement was registered at a time when the daily Covid recoveries outnu…

Jaipur, May 19 : Rajasthan BJP MLA Gautamlal Meena, from Dhariwad assembly in Pratapgarh, died of Covid-19 on Wednesday morning.On May 16, Meena was admitted to hospital in Udaipur on the initiative taken by former CM Vasundhara Raje.He was put on a …

Chennai, May 19 : With the government hospitals in Tamil Nadu insisting on attendants with Covid-19 patients in wards and ICU’s the possibility of these attendants getting exposed to the pandemic is rising.Not just getting themselves exposed to the v…