Health

Lucknow, May 16 : The Yogi Adityanath government’s UP Oxygen Production Promotion Policy, 2021, is designed to augment production of medical and industrial oxygen, and generate jobs as well.The policy blueprint, which was hammered out by the infrastr…

Bengaluru, May 16 : With the pandemic wave continuing to swarm the state, 41,664 cases were registered in a day across Karnataka including 13,402 cases in Bengaluru, while 349 succumbing to this deadly virus, said the health bulletin on Saturday.”Wit…

Guwahati, May 15 : To check the alarming rise in the number of Covid cases, the Assam government on Saturday advanced the curfew timings across the state from 2 pm to 12 noon besides imposing various other restrictions, including limited movement of …

Bengaluru, May 15 : The second and third Oxygen Express trains, carrying 120 MT liquid medical oxygen (LMO) each from Odisha and Jharkhand, respectively, chugged into the Whitefield railway station in the city’s eastern suburb on Saturday, an officia…

Bengaluru, May 15 : Karnataka on Saturday decided to utilise the District Mineral Foundation’s (DMF) fund to purchase 10 each oxygen tankers, 1,000 oxygen concentrators, pulse-oximeters, emergency medical needs and set up oxygen plants to tide over t…

Thiruvananthapuram, May 15 : A week after the enforcement of lockdown in Kerala, there seems to be little respite when it comes to fresh Covid cases in the southern state, as Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan on Saturday said that 32,680 people turned …

New Delhi, May 15 : Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan on Saturday said that India will have 51.6 crore Covid-19 vaccine doses by July end including the 18 crore doses already administered.Vardhan reviewed the public health response to Covid-19 and …

Mumbai, May 15 : Although the number of new Covid cases dropped in Maharashtra on Saturday, the states fatalities zoomed past the 80,000-level, with a corresponding rise in the recovery rate, health officials said here.Compared to 695 deaths on Frida…

Srinagar, May 15 : The coronavirus-induced curfew across Jammu and Kashmir has been extended by a week in the wake of a spike in Covid cases.An official statement said that the lockdown will be strictly imposed, however, few essential services are ex…

Srinagar, May 15 : J (and) K has reported 3,677 new Covid cases and 63 deaths in the past 24 hours, health officials said on Saturday.Meanwhile, the authorities have extended the coronavirus-induced curfew till May 24.Of the 3,677 fresh infections, 1…