Health

Chennai, Sep 20 : The diarrhoea control drive by the Tamil Nadu Health department among children aged under five years will end on September 30.While the drive was started on September 16, in the initial phase the focus was to create awareness among …

New Delhi, Sep 20 : The Supreme Court on Monday sought Centre’s response on a PIL seeking door-to-door vaccination of persons with disability.A bench headed by Justice D.Y.Chandrachud issued notice to the Union of India while hearing a plea by Evara …

New Delhi, Sep 20 : The Supreme Court on Monday declined to entertain a plea by a Class 12 student from Delhi seeking directions to Centre and States to take a time-bound decision in connection with the physical re-opening of schools and conduct of …

Lucknow, Sep 20 : The number of fully vaccinated persons in Uttar Pradesh has reached the 11 per cent-mark, which implies that one in every ten persons in the state is now fully vaccinated.According to official sources, the total number of fully vacc…

Chennai, Sep 20 : The Tamil Nadu health department has administered 16,43,879 lakh doses of vaccine in the second mega vaccination camp organised by it.The state public health department in a statement on Sunday said that this has taken the total vac…

New Delhi, Sep 19 : The National Green Tribunal’s (NGT) southern, eastern, and central benches have asked the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) and states from the respective regions to submit, by October 10, the status of State Action Plans (SA…

New Delhi, Sep 19 : Delhi reported 28 new Covid positive cases in the last 24 hours, taking the total coronavirus infection tally so far to 14,38,497 since early 2020.There was no death registered due to Covid in the same time span.There was one deat…

Chennai, Sep 19 : Tamil Nadu Health Minister Ma Subramanian on Sunday said that the Coimbatore district topped the state in vaccinating the highest percentage of the eligible population against Covid-19.Addressing reporters after inaugurating the sec…

Srinagar, Sep 19 : New Covid cases continued to surge in J (and) K on Sunday with 168 new cases and 154 recoveries reported during the last 24 hours.Officials said the new cases included 15 from the Jammu division and 153 from the Kashmir division wh…

Lucknow, Sep 19 : The Yogi Adityanath government in Uttar Pradesh has now issued fresh guidelines, extending the number of guests at weddings and other functions to 100.According to an order by Additional Chief Secretary, Home, Avanish Awasthi, the m…