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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...

New Delhi: Swamped by Covid-19 cure proposals, the ministry of AYUSH notified guidelines for researchers of Indian traditional medicine. The ministry asked researches to follow...

Mumbai: Each Covid-19 test costs roughly Rs 2,500, taking the total amount spent on them in India so far to a little over Rs 100...

NEW DELHI: As the world grapples with the coronavirus pandemic, researchers have found the presence of a different kind of coronavirus — bat coronavirus (BtCoV)...

New Delhi: In a bid to scale up Covid-19 testing, the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) on Wednesday invited applications from government and private...

India will partially lift the ban on exports of Hydrochloroquine, the anti-malaria drug being thought of as effective for healthcare workers treating Covid-19 patients. Meanwhile,...

Mumbai’s Wockhardt Hospital has been declared a containment zone after several staff tested positive. Wockhardt’s Chairman said the infection spread from the non-Covid section of...

New Delhi: The rate of doubling of COVID-19 cases in India is 4.1 days presently but if the cases linked to the Tablighi Jamaat congregation...

The Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) on Saturday issued an advisory to start rapid antibody based blood tests for COVID-19 in areas reporting clusters...