UNION HEALTH MINISTRY

Centre rushes high level teams to states witnessing surge in COVID-19 cases

The three member multidisciplinary teams are headed by joint secretary level officers in the health ministry, the Union Health Ministry sai...

COVID-19: India records 13,742 new cases, 104 fatalities

India's total tally of COVID-19 cases rose to 1,10,30,176. The number of people who have recuperated from the disease surged to 1,07,26,702...

Over 1.19 crore healthcare and frontline workers vaccinated against COVID-19: Govt

The beneficiaries include 64,71,047 healthcare workers (HCWs) who have taken the first dose, 13,21,635 HCWs who have taken the second dose ...

'States have started implementing IMI 3.0 for kids, pregnant woman not immunised in routine drive'

The campaign aims to accelerate the full immunisation of children and pregnant women in the country and the first phase has been rolled out...

Need to increase pace of COVID-19 vaccinations: Centre to states

The letter dated February 19 stated a large number of healthcare and frontline workers still remain to be covered and the progress is varia...

COVID-19: India records 14,264 new cases

Daily COVID-19 cases in India registered an increase for the fourth consecutive day with the country recording 14,264 new cases, taking the...

1.08 crore Covid-19 vaccine doses administered till Feb 20: Health Ministry

A total of 1.08 crore COVID-19 vaccine doses have been administered till now with 1.86 lakh jabs given on Saturday, the Union Health Minist...

COVID-19: India records 13,993 new cases, highest in 22 days

Daily COVID-19 cases in the country climbed to about 14,000 after nearly 22 days taking India's tally to 1,09,77,387, while the recoveries ...

India third on list of countries with highest cumulative vaccination numbers: Health ministry

A total of 94,22,228 vaccine doses have been given to beneficiaries through 1,99,305 sessions till 8 am on February 18, as per the provisio...

All central government employees to attend office on working days, says Personnel Ministry

However, all officers and staff residing in containment zones shall be exempted from coming to office till their containment zone is de-not...

COVID-19: Government issues fresh SOPs for offices

​Work can resume after disinfection has been completed as per laid down protocols, the standard operating procedures (SOPs), which were iss...

India's national recovery rate among highest in the world: Health ministry

"India's COVID-19 recovery rate of 97.31 per cent is amongst the highest in the world. The difference between the recovered and active case...

India's active COVID cases tally falls to 1.36 lakh, only 1 state reports over 1,000 cases: Govt

India's tally of active COVID-19 cases has fallen to 1.35 lakh comprising only 1.25 per cent of the total infections, while the distributio...

97 pc of 7.75L people surveyed after getting jabs satisfied with COVID vaccination process: Govt

The government is taking feedback from those vaccinated since January 17 through its mobile app CoWIN and has got responses from 7.75 lakh ...

52,90,474 beneficiaries vaccinated for COVID-19 till 6 pm today: Additional Secretary of Union Health Ministry

A total of 52,90,474 beneficiaries has been vaccinated for COVID-19 in the country, till 6 pm on February 05, informed Additional Secretary...

Centre to depute teams to Kerala, Maharashtra for coronavirus management support

As on Tuesday Maharashtra has 44,944 active cases while Kerala has 69,456 active cases, according to the health ministry data updated at 8 ...

COVID-19: India reports 8,635 new cases

The country's COVID-19 tally stands at 1,07,66,245 and the death toll increased to 1,54,486 with 94 new fatalities, the data updated at 8 a...