India's single-day Covid tally at 5-month high of 4,435India's Covid tally on Wednesday stood at 4,435, registering the biggest single-day jump in 163 days (five months and 13 days), while the n...
05 Apr, 2023, 04.15 PM IST
Govt asks states to ensure preparedness as Covid cases surgeIn a high level meeting, the health secretary cautioned states and Union Territories (UTs) against any complacency and advised them to foll...
28 Mar, 2023, 12.45 AM IST
Amid Covid rise, no clustering and unusual pattern a relief for IndiaActive cases have continued to rise in India for 33 days to the highest since November last year. India saw a single-day rise of more than ...
20 Mar, 2023, 08.15 AM IST
Govt may not procure Bharat Biotech's intranasal Covid vaccine iNNOVACCBharat Biotech has made its intranasal Covid-19 vaccine iNNOVACC available on CoWin, priced at ₹800 per dose for private markets and ₹325 f...
17 Jan, 2023, 12.01 AM IST
India now has the BF.7 Omicron variant. Will masking, home isolation, and WFH make a comeback?India has reported four cases of the Omicron sub-variant BF.7, which is causing the huge Covid surge in China. The BF.7 is a descendant of ...
22 Dec, 2022, 04.46 PM IST
Ministry asks states to ramp up coverage of booster dosesData as on Tuesday showed states such as Andhra Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Odisha, UP, Gujarat, Himachal Pradesh, Telangana have a better cover...
31 Aug, 2022, 12.21 AM IST
PM Modi urges people to take Covid vaccine booster doseHe made the appeal after he had inaugurated a variety of projects of the Shrimad Rajchandra Mission, remotely. The project includes a 250-b...
04 Aug, 2022, 10.56 PM IST
Surge in Covid cases: States, UTs asked to submit 'larger number' of samples for whole genome sequencingThirty-two districts in India including 11 from Kerala and five from Maharashtra are reporting a weekly Covid positivity rate of more than ...
18 Jun, 2022, 05.03 PM IST
Covid not over yet; need to be alert with cases rising in some states: Mansukh MandaviyaThe minister held a meeting with health ministers and senior officials of states and union territories via video conference to review the p...
13 Jun, 2022, 05.00 PM IST
Early signs of Covid cases plateauing reported but need to be observed, says govtAddressing a press conference here, Lav Agarwal, the joint secretary in the Health Ministry said, "A clear trend in terms of fewer Covid ca...
27 Jan, 2022, 05.40 PM IST
Don't treat Omicron as common cold, weekly case positivity in 300 districts over 5%: GovtAt a press conference, Joint Secretary in the Union Health Ministry Lav Agarwal said Maharashtra, West Bengal, Delhi, Tamil Nadu, Karnataka...
12 Jan, 2022, 10.11 PM IST
Gujarat begins administering precaution dose of COVID-19 vaccine; aims to cover 9 lakh eligible peopleApproximately nine lakh eligible people will be administered the precaution doses at around 3,500 vaccination centres where more than 17,00...
10 Jan, 2022, 12.47 PM IST
Omicron variant: Delhi readies health infra as R-value exceeds 2.5About 99.66 MT LMO capacity through Pressure Swing Adsorption (PSA) Plants has been created and 116 MT is targeted by next month. Of the 98...
01 Jan, 2022, 08.56 AM IST
Gujarat government to set up COVID-19 vaccination camps at schoolsChildren aged between 15 to 18 years can register online on CoWin from January 1 or can register onsite at the vaccination centres to recei...
28 Dec, 2021, 05.54 PM IST
After 3-day gap, BMC to resume vaccination from TuesdayAs a precaution after the Tauktae alert, the civic body of Mumbai had suspended the inoculation drive for three days - Saturday, Sunday and...
17 May, 2021, 10.16 PM IST
Third wave of coronavirus may not happen if strong measures are taken: PSA VijayRaghavan"The guidance about precautions, about surveillance, about containment, about treatment and about tests. This insidious asymptomatic transm...
07 May, 2021, 09.41 PM IST
Chhattisgarh, Punjab, Kerala shed Covaxin hesitancyCongress-ruled Chhattisgarh would deploy the vaccine in government medical colleges and government hospitals from Monday.
13 Mar, 2021, 08.12 AM IST