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The Union Health Secretary Rajesh Bhushan has written to chief secretaries of Madhya Pradesh, Kerala and Maharashtra, asking them to take up immediate containment measures...

A private agency, which was awarded the contract for Covid testing in key areas of the Kumbh mela in Haridwar and is now under scanner...

(This story originally appeared in on May 31, 2021) PUNE: Recovered Covid patients opting for non-urgent or elective surgeries are being asked by surgeons to...

The government on Monday revised the clinical guidance for COVID-19 treatment, dropping the off-label use of convalescent plasma as it was found not beneficial in...

Of the many ways India can ramp up vaccine production, widely sharing output responsibilities of Covaxin can be one of the most effective. Legal experts...

NEW DELHI: Over 400 scientists from research and teaching institutes across the country have made an open appeal to the Prime Minister asking that detailed...

Some painkillers like Ibuprofen are found to worsen COVID-19, known to be harmful to heart failure patients and may increase risk of kidney damage, the...

BENGALURU: Aimed at meeting the increasing demand for Covid-19 diagnosis, a new initiative has enabled mass-scale availability of indigenously developed, ICMR/DCGI-approved diagnostic kits for government...

NEW DELHI: Union home secretary Ajay Kumar Bhalla, who reviewed the Covid situation in Union territories (UT) along with health secretary Rajesh Bhushan on Tuesday,...

AHMEDABAD: Gujarat chief minister Vijay Rupani on Sunday denied Covid deaths were being under-counted and “assured people every death is being investigated and recorded by...

NEW DELHI: Amid concerns about a fresh rise in Covid-19 cases in many states, home minister Amit Shah on Monday reviewed the situation across the...

CHENNAI | NEW DELHI: India’s drugs regulator on Saturday recommended for emergency use a locally developed coronavirus vaccine called COVAXIN, which is expected to be...

Nearly seven per cent of India‘s population aged ten and above was exposed to SARS-CoV-2, amounting to an estimated 74.3 million infections by August, with...

As many as 45 doctors and 160 paramedics of the paramilitary forces have arrived in Delhi for deployment on COVID-19 duties while the Railways will...

NEW DELHI: The Country’s top medical research body–India Council of Medical Research (ICMR) on Wednesday said that indiscriminate use of Convalescent Plasma Therapy (CPT) should...

NEW DELHI: The Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) has issued an advisory for the use of indigenously developed Feluda paper strip test, which is...

New Delhi: India’s coronavirus tally galloped past 60 lakh on Monday with 82,170 new cases, while the number of recoveries surged to 50.17 lakh after...

New Delhi: India had an estimated 6.4 million coronavirus cases in early May, according to a survey conducted by the Indian Council of Medical Research...

New Delhi: The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has put on hold an emergency authorisation for blood plasma arguing that emerging data on the...

BENGALURU: As India is lifting lockdowns in various parts of the country in a phased manner, it is expected to see a further upsurge in...

NEW DELHI: Less than 1% — 0.73% to be precise — of the population has been found exposed to Covid-19 infection in the results of...

New Delhi: The All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) is set to study how long coronavirus can remain in the body and whether dead...

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The Indian Council for Medical Research (ICMR) on Saturday lauded the containment strategy and the robust public healthcare system of Kerala and said it...

By Kiran Mazumdar Shaw To ensure that the medical crisis due to the Covid-19 pandemic does not snowball into a devastating economic crisis, GoI will...

NEW DELHI: Amid concerns raised in India about the quality of rapid test kits recently purchased from China, the Chinese embassy said it will keep...