Health

Kolkata, May 11 : Geeta Kumar, a resident of Salt Lake in the satellite town of Kolkata, died of Covid-19 on Saturday evening, but her family members had to wait for nearly 29 hours before they could find a slot at a crematorium in Khardah, nearly 20…

Patna/Ghazipur (UP), May 11 : After Bihar’s Buxar, around two dozen bodies were found on the banks of the Ganga at adjoining Ghazipur district of Uttar Pradesh, an official said on Tuesday.A.K.Pandey, the SHO of Gahmar police station in Ghazipur, tol…

New Delhi, May 11 : Aimed to keep to at least those who received the first dose of vaccine safe from Covid, the Centre on Tuesday directed all the states to ensure a second dose for such beneficiaries, instructing them to reserve at least 70 per cen…

Thiruvananthapuram, May 11 : The number of new Covid cases in Kerala continued to surge, as 37,290 people were reported positive from 1,39,287 samples tested in the past 24 hours as on Tuesday.The state is under a complete lockdown from Saturday to t…

Chennai, May 11 : With lockdowns announced in neighbouring Kerala and Karnataka too, vehicular movement in Tamil Nadu’s border areas has come down.At the Tamil Nadu-Kerala border in Coimbatore district, revenue and police officials at the Walayar che…

New Delhi, May 11 : Witnessing a decline, the national capital reported 12,481 new Covid cases in the last 24 hours, the lowest since April 12 and the daily positivity rate dipping below 18 per cent for the first time since April 14.Drop in both numb…

Amaravati, May 11 : Andhra Pradesh continues to reel under the impact of covid, with the state reporting an all-time high death toll of 108 deaths on Tuesday.The covid tally also continues to hover above the 20,000 mark, with 20,345 new cases report…

New Delhi, May 11 : The BJP claimed on Tuesday that the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) government in Delhi did not increase the number of ICU beds, nor did it purchase new ventilators in the last one year.Addressing a press conference, BJP MP Meenakshi Lekhi …

Chennai, May 11 : The Greater Chennai Corporation has handed over 300 oxygen concentrators to the government hospitals in the city for the treatment of Covid-19 patients.A total of 50 concentrators were handed over to the Covid care centre at the Sta…

Chennai, May 11 : The Greater Chennai Corporation reeling under the spike in Covid-19 cases over the past few days is planning to rope in 2,000 more volunteers to the existing 2,000 who are monitoring the number of cases, discharge from hospitals and…