India HMPV cases: The Directorate of Medical Health and Family Welfare issues an advisory for preventing and controlling respiratory diseas...

The advisory issued on Tuesday asked district medical authorities to monitor influenza-like illness (ILI) and severe acute respiratory illn...

Union health secretary Sudhansh Pant advised the states and UTs to “immediately” review public health and hospital preparedness measures, i...

The states and Union Territories have been asked to monitor the proportion of SARI cases and refer sufficient number of samples for testing...

Karnataka H3N2 virus: The victim was admitted to hospital on February 24 and suffered from fever, cough, sore throat and had symptoms of in...

According to the data given by ICMR, Pan respiratory virus surveillance has been established by ICMR/DHR across 30 VRDLs. The surveillance ...

According to data from Karnataka's Covid war room, 284 beds with ventilator support are reserved in Bengaluru to treat Covid-19 patients, i...

The trend has raised concerns as authorities believe late reporting by the families of the affected could be a reason behind these district...

The health department has identified them as vulnerable groups, and those above 50 years of age and with co-morbid conditions will be teste...

Last week, the health department decided to exempt asymptomatic interstate travellers from Covid-19 test. Since this has eased the load on ...

Before any procedure, private hospitals are now conducting RT-PCR confirmatory test for Covid-19. Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR)...

Fifty thousand-plus booth-level officers will be deployed to identify patients with existing conditions such as non-communicable diseases, ...

Since the six weeks that the first coronavirus case was reported in Karnataka, the total count of confirmed cases so far is 390. Barring Ke...

Karnataka on Tuesday reported four deaths due to coronavirus, taking the state's death toll from the coronavirus infection to 10.

Of the 30 districts in the state, 11 that have not reported any Covid-19 cases accounted for only 13% of the total testing done in the stat...

In tests conducted on 5,911 Severe Acute Respiratory Illness (SARI) patients, 104 (1.8%) tested positive for Covid-19. Of these, 40 did not...

India has allowed private diagnostic laboratories to conduct Covid-19 tests and has expanded the testing criteria to include asymptomatic d...