Health

Chandigarh, May 7 : Haryana Home Minister Anil Vij on Friday said the work of administration and arrangement of oxygen plants should be handed over to the military and the paramilitary for their safe and smooth functioning.Vij said this step should b…

Panaji, May 7 : Goa will impose a “strict, state-level” curfew, from May 9 to May 23, to counter rising Covid-19 cases, Chief Minister Pramod Sawant said on Friday.Stores selling essential items, and grocery stores will be open from 7 a.m.to 1 p.m. M…

Amaravati, May 7 : The Andhra Pradesh Police tracked a missing oxygen tanker and ensured its delivery on time, thus saving the lives of nearly 400 patients on Friday.A Vijayawada-bound tanker carrying 18 tonnes oxygen from Odisha went missing late Th…

New Delhi, May 7 : The Centre has provided more than 17.35 crore vaccine doses to the states and the union territories free of cost, and more than 90 lakh doses are still available with them, the Health Ministry said, adding over 10 lakh doses will b…

Mumbai, May 7 : Accusing the BrihanMumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) of ‘betrayal’, hundreds of resident doctors have launched a protest ‘on-duty’ demanding payment of arrears of their increased stipend announced last year, here on Friday.The frontl…

New Delhi, May 7 : Union Minister for Chemicals and Fertilisers D. V. Sadananda Gowda on Friday said that the allocation of Remdesivir vials across the country has been made up to May 16, so that no patient faces any difficulty amid the pandemic.Cons…

Gurugram, May 7 : Gurugram Deputy Commissioner Yash Garg has asked all the hospitals with more than 50 beds capacity to manage their own liquid oxygen requirements.For this, they can either set up a liquid oxygen plant or arrange a Pressure Swing Ads…

Panaji, May 7 : Travel and tourism stakeholders in Goa have urged Chief Minister Pramod Sawant to impose an immediate lockdown for 21 days in the state due to the “ferocity” of the Covid-19 pandemic, in order to avert further loss of life.In a letter…

Bengaluru, May 7 : More than two-thirds of people may now have hand dermatitis due to stringent hand washing and using alcohol-based rubs during the Covid-19 pandemic, indicating the emergence of a skin-disease epidemic, according to a study led by I…

New Delhi, May 7 : Congress leader P. Chidambaram on Friday criticised Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Health Minister Harsh Vardhan for “not owing responsibility”, saying the Covid-19 pandemic in the country has turned to worse from bad.”The pandem…