Reinfection of Covid-19 has been confirmed using whole genome sequencing in four healthcare workers from Mumbai. All four have a more sever...

More than 87,000 healthcare workers have been infected with Covid-19, with just six states — Maharashtra, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Delhi, Wes...

An owner of a private diagnostic chain, who did not wish to be identified, said, “We have no clarity on the amount of money we can charge. ...

After Maharashtra, the Delhi government has asked all private diagnostic centres and laboratories associated with private hospitals to star...

The earlier May 15 advisory stated that high risk contacts should be quarantined for 14 days, tested as per ICMR testing protocol, actively...

Union health secretary Preeti Sudan in a letter asked chief secretaries of all states and UTs to ensure compliance of the order, “non-compl...

The apex health research body has so far approved three batches of 'COVID Kavach ELISA IgG kits' developed by Zydus Cadila Healthcare Ltd, ...

Drug marker Macleods Pharmaceuticals has decided to put its staff on prophylaxis treatment of hydroxychlroquine (HCQ), even as a debate rag...

A large proportion of both those tested and those positive were asymptomatic contacts, according to the study by the Indian Council of Medi...

According to the new guidelines — which come with caveats — recommended by the joint monitoring group and the national task force set up by...

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...

With some microbiologists opposing the use of HCQ for Covid-19, a debate is raging on among members of the task force over continuing with ...

The ministry of health and family welfare had on April 28 told state governments and private hospitals to follow the rulebook and not insis...

Apart from loss of taste and smell, hallucinations, headaches and dizziness could be Covid's warning signs.

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

This procedure has been okayed by Drug Controller General of India (DCGI) for "restricted use in emergency situations". The point to note h...