Maharashtra, with a population of more than 114 million, is one of the country's most populous states, and has reported 50 cases of the new...

A paediatric serosurvey conducted by the Mumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has shown that 51.18 per cent of children between 1 and 18 year...

The Bombay High Court directed the Maharashtra government on Thursday to give wide publicity to its advisory on preventing COVID-19 infecti...

Kejriwal announced the setting up of a paediatric task force and two genome sequencing labs as well as a plan to ramp up oxygen capacity to...

“It is not a question of whether but when. The US, UK, Italy and Japan had four waves. The virus will also replicate like that in India. Bu...

“We have come up with some data on the vulnerable population including children that are at higher risk during the third wave and we will p...

Sachin Solat, a member of the district paediatric task force, said the figures were not at all alarming as far as children and teenagers ge...

Talking about the efforts, the sarpanch Ruturaj Deshmukh said he and his team framed a five-point programme involving tracing, testing, tre...

The Task Force will look into the logistics like hospital facilities, oxygen masks for children, medicines and other issues and make necess...

Most states are either adding or earmarking beds for paediatric Covid care, including paediatric intensive care units (PICU), neonatal inte...

Anticipating a third wave of the pandemic, which is likely to affect children in more numbers, Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray had instruct...

A week after conducting an online session with family physicians, chief minister Uddhav Thackeray on Sunday interacted with around 6,300 pa...

While the influenza shot that contains two subtypes of influenza A and two lineages of influenza B is widely available in market, it is not...

As of Saturday, Maharashtra's COVID-19 tally stood at 55,53,225 while the number of fatalities stood at 87,300, as per the state health dep...

Mumbai is building four mammoth centres across the city with units for children infected with COVID-19 and it is working closely with a spe...

According to one of India’s best virologists, Dr Ravi from Nimhans Bengaluru, the third wave is likely to attack children, since most adult...

Last year, these forces recruited close to 250 doctors, against the double number of vacancies they had advertised.