Over five lakh PPEs being manufactured per day in India, says Health Minister Dr Harsh VardhanThe Union Health Minister further said that India has conducted around 7 crore tests for COVID-19 and the recovery rate is improving.
27 Sep, 2020, 08.07 AM IST
Siddaramaiah demands judicial probe into alleged irregularities in COVID managementReleasing some documents to the media to substantiate his allegations, the former chief minister claimed that the health department spent R...
23 Jul, 2020, 03.48 PM IST
Govt allows export of 50 lakh PPE medical coveralls per month“Boosting Make in India exports, Personal Protection Equipment (PPE) medical coveralls for COVID-19 have been allowed with a monthly export...
29 Jun, 2020, 12.51 PM IST
Government mulls lifting ban on PPE export“There are demands from many markets and we have a disposable surplus of around 50 lakh PPEs that can be exported every month,” said an off...
26 Jun, 2020, 02.18 PM IST
Anti-covid products flying off GeM shelvesThe state governments of Uttar Pradesh and Delhi are on the forefront, making maximum such purchases from the portal worth ₹105 crore and ₹...
13 Jun, 2020, 08.30 AM IST
Cases surging, will require more make-shift hospitals: Centre to SC"The number of Covid-19 cases are constantly increasing and at some point of time in the near future, apart from existing hospitals, large ...
05 Jun, 2020, 06.51 AM IST
Covid-19 cases surging, will have to build make-shift hospitals: Centre tells SCThe government argued that the corona pandemic was “unprecedented’ and “novel” and there was no universal protocol to deal with it in absen...
04 Jun, 2020, 02.28 PM IST
Only 7% ICU beds needed for Covid patients: Govt groupProjection of hospital beds required for Covid-19 patients should reflect actual needs of each state and not assumed to be 20%, one of the ...
30 May, 2020, 08.34 AM IST
Manufacturing of PPEs, N95 masks ramped up; ensuring quality through stringent protocols: Health minister"There are some reports in a section of the media expressing concern about the quality of personal protective equipment (PPE) coveralls," t...
25 May, 2020, 01.20 PM IST
Health Ministry asks states to buy PPEs from the GeM portal alsoThe Union Health Ministry has asked states to also directly buy Personal Protective Equipment (PPEs) from the suppliers onboarded on the Go...
23 May, 2020, 09.39 AM IST
Domestic manufacturers reached production capacity of 2.5 lakh PPEs, 2 lakh N-95 masks, GoM informedRandom batch sampling for ensuring compliance and adherence to the quality standards laid down was also stressed upon by the GoM, a stateme...
05 May, 2020, 10.41 PM IST
Vedanta starts mass production of Personal Protective Equipment in Gurugram"The company has imported 23 PPE machines recently in collaboration with the Ministry of Textiles, and has teamed up with authorised appare...
30 Apr, 2020, 07.02 PM IST
COVID-19: Northeast Frontier Railway plans to produce 2,000 PPEs in AprilPrototypes of PPEs have been made at the New Bongaigaon and Dibrugarh workshops of the NFR with the help of presently available infrastruct...
16 Apr, 2020, 05.27 PM IST
Allow us to test plasma therapy, states tell CentreAccording to sources, Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu and Delhi sought permission to conduct plasma therapy.
11 Apr, 2020, 08.59 AM IST
Covid-19 outbreak: Lack of machines puts a spanner in India's PPE plansThe Chinese government has asked for 12 weeks to supply machines to stitch PPEs.
09 Apr, 2020, 08.16 AM IST
0 to 12,000/day: How India scaled up PPE productionWhile supplies are being augmented via imports, domestic production too has begun picking up with the textiles ministry getting Indian non-...
08 Apr, 2020, 11.09 AM IST
India receives 1.7 lakh PPEs donated by China"Supply lines from abroad opened up today with the receipt of 1.70 lakh Personal Protection Equipment (PPE) coveralls from China which have...
06 Apr, 2020, 09.04 PM IST