Health

Chennai, May 14 : The Greater Chennai Corporation will conduct a massive vaccination drive for the next three days beginning Friday.This drive will cover one lakh people aged above 45 years.The vaccination drive has special focus on North Chennai.Thi…

Lucknow, May 14 : In a clear indication that the Yogi Adityanath government in Uttar Pradesh is aggressively trying to check the spread of coronavirus in rural areas, Covid test teams have visited over 3 crore houses across the state in a week.A tota…

New Delhi, May 14 : Witnessing a decline, India on Friday reported 3,43,144 new Covid cases and 4,000 fatalities, the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare said.In the past 22 days India’s daily Covid tally has plateaued over the three-lakh-mar…

Chennai, May 14 : After facing acute shortage of medical oxygen with several hospitals in the state not being able to accommodate patients for want of oxygen beds, the Tamil Nadu state government has issued guidelines for optimal usage of oxygen.The…

Gurugram, May 14 : In collaboration with Park Plus and DLF City Centre Mall, the health department of Gurugram administration will organise a day-long ‘drive-in vaccination’ programme to administer the second dose of Covishield to the 45+ age group a…

Bengaluru, May 14 : Reversing over the month-long trend, new Covid cases in Karnataka declined to 35,297 in a day, while deaths due to the infection reduced to 344 during the day, said the state health bulletin on Thursday.”Against 39,998 positive c…

Srinagar, May 13 : As the Covid-related death rate continued to stay high, J (and) K on Thursday recorded 55 deaths and 4,356 new cases during the last 24 hours.Officials said of the new deaths, 35 were recorded in the Jammu division and 20 in the Ka…

Bengaluru, May 13 : The premier Bengaluru-based Indian Institute of Science (IISc) is developing a low-cost oxygen concentrator and anti-Covid vaccine, Karnataka Health Minister K.Sudhakar said on Thursday.”IISc researchers are designing a low-cost a…

Jaipur, May 13 : Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot on Thursday expressed concern on cases of mucormycosis of “black fungus” being reported amongst patients who have recovered from coronavirus and urged the Centre to carry a comprehensive research…

Hyderabad, May 13 : Telangana’s daily count of Covid-19 cases dropped further while the state also improved its recovery rate.The state logged 4,693 new cases and 33 deaths during the 24-hour period ending 5.30 p.m.on Thursday, the second day of the …