Health

Bengaluru, Sep 22 : As many as 34 security personnel of the Border Security Force (BSF) who came from Shillong in Meghalaya have tested positive for Covid-19 at the Yelahanka BSF camp here in Karnataka, sources in the health department said on Wednes…

Chennai, Sep 22 : After two successful mega vaccination drives conducted on September 12 and 19, the inoculation drive in Tamil Nadu has been hit by the shortage of vaccines.The state did not conduct any vaccinations on Monday and Tuesday.Chief Minis…

New Delhi, Sep 21 : World Health Organization Chief Scientist Dr Soumya Swaminathan on Tuesday said that all countries are supposed to follow the WHO recommendations.Talking to IANS on the ongoing row over the new UK COVID travel rules that prescribe…

Panaji, Sep 21 : Goa Police have arrested three persons after a passenger bus from Maharashtra sped through the police check-post at the inter-state border at Patradevi, without halting for a customary Covid inspection.The three persons arrested incl…

Srinagar, Sep 21 : Recoveries outpaced new Covid cases in J (and) K on Tuesday with 154 recoveries, 145 new cases, and 2 deaths reported during the last 24 hours.Officials said that 30 recoveries and 24 cases were reported from the Jammu division and…

New Delhi, Sep 21 : India will reciprocate the same discriminatory protocols for the UK nationals if the British government fails to recognize the Indian Covid-19 vaccine Covishield, the sources said on Tuesday.The non-recognition of the Covishield v…

New Delhi, Sep 21 : Condemning the new UK travel policy that considers fully vaccinated Indians as unvaccinated and prescribes 10 days quarantine, Dr MC Mishra, Ex AIIMS director, said that people should boycott travelling to the UK as long as the ne…

New Delhi, Sep 21 : Prof (Dr) Rajinder K Dhamija, Head of Neurology Department, Lady Hardinge Medical College, on Tuesday said that national policies and programmes specifically targeting epilepsy, neuro infections, dementia and neuro-degenerative di…

Chennai, Sep 21 : Tamil Nadu Health Minister Ma Subramanian has called upon the union government to export vaccines to other countries only after making sure that the entire population of India is given at least one dose of the vaccine.He was speakin…

Thiruvananthapuram, Sep 21 : Kerala on Tuesday saw its Covid situation better than what it was in the past many weeks, with the daily Covid test positivity rate falling below the 15 per cent mark.A statement issued here by Chief Minister Pinarayi Vij…