Health

New Delhi, June 4 : To help fight Covid-19 with better equipment and resources, Samsung India on Friday announced new Smart Healthcare centres at government hospitals across the country as part of its citizenship initiative.Samsung Smart Healthcare c…

Bhopal, June 4 : Scores of junior doctors have resigned after the division bench of Madhya Pradesh High Court had declared their state-wide strike as “illegal” and ordered them to resume work within 24 hours.The Junior Doctors’ Association (JUDA) hav…

Lucknow, June 4 : The Yogi Adityanath government in Uttar Pradesh has decided that students planning to study abroad will get vaccinated in school campuses.President and Managing Director of the City Montessori School, Geeta Gandhi Kingdon said, “We …

Chennai, June 4 : Even though providing protection against liability claims to the vaccine manufacturers as contemplated by the central government seems unconstitutional, if at all it is given then it should be prospective and not retrospective, said…

Lucknow, June 4 : Uttar Pradesh has clocked an all-time low case positivity rate of 0.3 per cent on Thursday. The positivity rate has been hovering around 0.5 per cent for the past few days.”UP has been on the forefront of Covid testing.Case positivi…

Chennai, June 4 : Tamil Nadu’s public health department has been planning to set up a genome sequencing laboratory in the state and the draft proposal regarding the same was already formulated at the public health laboratory.The officials are expecti…

Chennai, June 3 : The Central government said on Thursday that Tamil Nadu has been supplied with one crore Covid-19 vaccine doses till June 2, of which 7.24 lakh doses are currently available with the state.Refuting some media reports on vaccine shor…

New Delhi, June 3 : The Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) has approved two home-based Rapid Antigen Test kits, to be used only in symptomatic individuals and immediate contacts of laboratory confirmed positive cases.Accordingly, the ICMR has …

Bengaluru, June 4 : Karnataka conducted over 3-crore Covid tests since the pandemic broke out across the southern state a year ago, Health Minister K.Sudhakar said on Thursday.”Karnataka has cumulatively conducted 3,01,49,275 Covid tests till Wednesd…

Bengaluru, June 4 : In a record of sets, 514 Covid deaths were reported in a single day across Karnataka, taking the state’s death toll to 30,531, said the health bulletin on Thursday.”The infection claimed 514 lives, including 347 in Bengaluru duri…