Fifty-nine cases of HMPV and two deaths due to co-morbidities have been reported in India between January 6-29. The virus particularly affe...

The Union health secretary reviewed the situation of respiratory illnesses in the country, and the status of public health measures for the...

Epidemiologist Dr Raman R Gangakhedkar said between 2016-2018 the National Institute of Virology (NIV) enrolled about 16,000 patients of wh...

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...

Respiratory viruses such as the novel human influenza virus (swine flu), H3N2, Victoria group, and respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) are ca...

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 an expert, even though the symptom is not specific to COVID-19 as one may suffer from loss of smell and taste when they have f...

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

The Karnataka health department has identified about 13,341 persons with coronavirus, ILI and SARI symptoms during the door-to-door health ...

Besides an urgent drive to check migrant workers for flu and fevers, all symptomatic frontline workers involved in containment and mitigati...

Besides, asymptomatic direct and high-risk contacts of a confirmed case are to be tested once between day five and day 10 of coming in cont...

The state government has asked chemists to track all who buy drugs used for common cold such as cough syrups and paracetamol. The same meas...

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.