HMPV in China seasonal in nature, nothing new: WHOThe WHO has assured that the spread of human metapneumovirus in China is not alarming. Current hospital utilization rates are lower than la...
09 Jan, 2025, 12.16 AM IST
HMPV: Health Ministry asks states to boost surveillanceThe Union health secretary reviewed the situation of respiratory illnesses in the country, and the status of public health measures for the...
07 Jan, 2025, 11.29 PM IST
Health Ministry urges states to strengthen surveillance amid HMPV casesThe health ministry has called on states to enhance surveillance and review measures for ILI and SARI after Human Metapneumovirus cases wer...
07 Jan, 2025, 05.54 PM IST
Air Pollution: Health Ministry issues advisory to statesThe health ministry has issued an advisory to states asking them to expand the network of sentinel hospitals for air pollution-related illn...
11 Nov, 2023, 01.52 AM IST
Health Secretary urges expanded hospitals network for air pollution surveillanceIn a letter to chief secretaries, Sudhansh Pant, health secretary has said that the health impacts of air pollution are challenging and the...
10 Nov, 2023, 10.59 AM IST
Another earthquake of 3.6 magnitude strikes NepalThe earthquake occurred at 04:38:20 (IST) at the depth of 10 km, 169 km NW of Kathmandu, the National Centre for Seismology informed.
05 Nov, 2023, 08.08 AM IST
Omicron sub-variant BF.7 found in several Covid-positive samples of int'l passengers: MandaviyaThe health ministry had, on January 9, said the sentinel-sequencing of 324 Covid-positive samples lifted from the community between Decembe...
11 Jan, 2023, 09.58 PM IST
All sub-variants of Omicron detected in India, no rise in mortality: Health ministryAccording to the ministry, sequencing of about 324 Covid-19-positive samples revealed the presence of Omicron variants like BA.2 and its su...
10 Jan, 2023, 03.17 PM IST
Scientific reasoning for booster vaccine doses under examination, giving both jabs priority: GovtOn contact tracing approach of individuals detected with Omicron in India, Dr Sujeet Kumar Singh, Director, National Centre for Disease Con...
02 Dec, 2021, 08.36 PM IST
Over 16,000 COVID-19 samples sent for whole genome sequencing in July, August: CentreGenomic surveillance of SARS-COV-2 is crucial to determine incidence and prevalence of the variants of concern. "It is clarified that the n...
06 Sep, 2021, 01.12 PM IST
Nearly 2 crore people in Karnataka were COVID-19 infected, says government surveySharing details of the findings, Karnataka Health Minister Dr K Sudhakar said the survey was carried out from September 3 to 16 across 30 d...
04 Nov, 2020, 05.34 PM IST
No third stage spread or community transmission in Kerala so far: Health ministerGiving the example of Singapore, Kerala health minister K K Shailaja said everything looked fine from January 23 to March 23 as they had on...
27 Apr, 2020, 04.07 PM IST
Air pollution drops by 40-50% in big Indian cities like Delhi, Mumbai after lockdown: EU sat data27 Apr, 2020, 06.18 AM IST
India setting up chain of high-tech viral diagnostic labs: Health Ministry officialIndia is setting up a network of high-tech viral diagnostic laboratories across the country to find out the real burden of dengue and simil...
08 Oct, 2015, 07.32 PM IST
30-fold rise in dengue cases worldwide in last 50 years, says MoS Health Shripad NaikIndia contributed to 19 per cent of the total dengue cases in the South East Asian Region (SEAR) in 2013, the government today said.
30 Jul, 2015, 07.47 PM IST
Assam CM Tarun Gogoi for steping up measures to tackle encephalitisAssam CM Tarun Gogoi directed the health authorities to step up preventive measures to check the spread of Japanese Encephalitis
01 Aug, 2014, 11.17 PM IST
Lie back! Future hospitals could be resortsA luxury healthcare centre in Florida provides a glimpse of what medical facilities might look like a few years from now
05 Jun, 2014, 04.00 PM IST