One of the first things I did as soon as I started showing symptoms was to quarantine myself in a room, avoiding all contact with family. F...

Test samples collected by people who swabbed their own nasal passages yielded more accurate results.

As capacity scales up, India may soon begin to export corona test swabs to other nations.

Until last month, polyester swabs were not manufactured in India and were imported from the US or China. With global demand for this produc...

India will now start rapid antibody based blood tests in clusters or evacuee centres.

As per the guidelines of the Centre for Disease Control and Prevention, polymer swab is used for collection of a sample from the upper resp...

Here we try to collate the relevant info on how it is being tested and found out if one has caught coronavirus that has already killed in t...

The new molecular test could be used to process 16 samples at a time -- or up to 384 samples if using a lab-based detection machine. The ki...

The woman, who is currently on ventilator support at Bharti Hospital, tested positive for the infection after her throat swabs were sent to...

The novel coronavirus originated in the central Chinese city of Wuhan, the capital of Hubei province. The coronavirus is a large family of ...

Already, three persons were undergoing treatment in the hospital after their admission in the last couple of days.

Three more persons, including one in worst-hit Pune, succumbed to the swine flu today, pushing the country-wide fatalities from the HINI pa...

With the death of four people — two in Bangalore and one each in Aurangabad and Pune, the swine flu toll in the country mounted to 33.

A 35-year-old woman suspected to be suffering from swine flu died at the Ram Manohar Lohia hospital here, doctors said on Thursday.

Two women, both aged 27, have succumbed to swine flu in this IT hub, raising the toll here due to the virus to five and across the country ...

A trigger-happy admn wrongly ascribed 3 deaths in Pune on Wednesday & Thursday to the virus without waiting for test results. Pics: Swine f...

As swine flu cases across the country rose, an ayurvedic doctor and a chemist infected with the H1N1 virus were battling for their lives on...