States in India are intensifying health measures, focusing on surveillance and prevention to address Human Metapneumovirus (HMPV) cases. Ex...

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

With 29 new fatalities, the death toll due to the disease has increased to 5,31,064. The fatality rate stands at 1.19%, the health ministry...

The dengue symptoms, if any, can last for two-seven days.

A day after Union Home Minister Amit Shah stepped in to rev up the fight against the pandemic in the national capital, several meetings wer...

"Moreover, WHO has also not commented on its accuracy. The ICMR is reviewing the efficacy of the test and the kits in its own labs and shal...

In case the person has any such history in the last 14 days and is symptomatic as per case definition of COIVD-19, the person must be isola...

At present only government labs are permitted to do the test and the Centre is making arrangements to nearly double its capacity to test fo...

She said various precautionary measures have been undertaken in close coordination with the ministries concerned at the central level. "The...

Over 250 to 300 Indian students are reportedly stuck in Wuhan triggering concerns over their well-being.

Three persons-- all men aged between 24 and 48, have been kept under observation at an isolation ward of RML Hospital here for a possible e...

Union Health Secretary Preeti Sudan chaired a video-conference meeting with chief secretaries and police chiefs of the five states borderin...

The levels of particulate matter (PM) 10, air quality of a city and how it handles its solid waste may soon determine the kind of funding i...

Public health experts from different parts of the country have called on the Centre to include a mitigation and prevention strategy for the...

As the city’s air goes from bad to unbreathable, expats can talk about returning home, but for people heavily invested here—native-born Del...

With two more deaths due to swine flu in the last 24 hours and the toll mounting to 31, Bangalore inched closer to worst-hit Pune, where on...

Swine flu has claimed four more lives, including its first two victims in Delhi, taking the nationwide toll to 38.