Health

New Delhi, July 3 (IANSlife) Bollywood actor Vidya Balan, who is currently being lauded for her role in Amit Masurkar’s ‘Sherni’ acknowledges that “the coronavirus pandemic put a tremendous amount of pressure and stress on our healthcare workers”.Despi…

Patna, July 3 (101Reporters/IANS) In Bihar, hit hard by the second wave of Covid-19 that has claimed more than 9,500 lives so far, a group of 74 volunteers of the Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya, including doctors, have pitched in to bring medical help for …

New Delhi, July 3 : India’s cumulative vaccination coverage crossed the 34 crore on Friday, including 43,99,298 vaccine doses administered in the last 24 hours, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MoHFW) said on Saturday.A total of 34,46,11,291 va…

New Delhi, July 3 : India on Saturday recorded 738 deaths, lowest since April 8 and added 44,111 new cases of Covid in past 24 hours, less than Friday, the Union Health and Family Welfare Ministry said.On April 8, India recorded 780 deaths due to Cov…

New Delhi, July 3 : Efficacy analysis demonstrates Covaxin to be 77.8 per cent effective against symptomatic COVID-19, through evaluation of 130 confirmed cases, with 24 observed in the vaccine group versus 106 in the placebo group.Bharat Biotech has…

Bhubaneswar, July 2 : Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik said on Friday that his government will pool all available resources to ensure proper healthcare for children.The Chief Minister said this while virtually launching a training programme for d…

Chennai, July 3 : The Tamil Nadu Public Health Department has planned a massive outreach programme involving volunteers, NGOs and other social organisations going door to door for pitch for Covid awareness and the necessity to wear masks, safe distan…

Bengaluru, July 3 : With the pandemic’s second wave on decline, new Covid cases dipped below 3,000 in Karnataka, while 88 succumbed to the infection in a day, said the state health bulletin on Friday.”Only 2,984 positive cases were registered on Thur…

New Delhi, July 2 : A day after Brazil decided to suspend the (Dollar) 320 million contract to procure 20 million doses of Bharat Biotech’s Covaxin to probe allegations of irregularities in the deal, including the price of (Dollar) 15 per dose, the…

Bengaluru, July 2 : Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Friday said that the Narendra Modi government has chosen a path of increasing allocation for infrastructure building, and concentrating on health infrastructure with the pandemic hittin…