Health

Brinagar, May 6 : Breaking its own record of a day before, J (and) K on Thursday registered the highest number of 4,926 new Covid cases and 52 deaths.Officials said that of the new cases, 1,685 were from the Jammu division and 3,241 from the Kashmir …

New Delhi, May 6 : The Centre on Thursday issued enabling guidelines to facilitate the vaccination of the civil aviation community.The development comes after the Civil Aviation Secretary in a letter requested all the state governments to consider th…

Agra, May 6 : The Covid-19 recovery rate has improved in Uttar Pradesh’s Agra city up to 86.74 per cent, even as 234 fresh infections have been detected in the last 24 hours, health officials said on Thursday.For the past three consecutive days, the …

Mumbai, May 6 : Maharashtra currently has around 82,098 Covid-19 patients who are serious and under treatment in various hospitals across the state, according to official data released here on Thursday.Of these 82,098, the maximum, 25,265 are in inte…

Thiruvananthapuram, May 6 : After bringing succour to thousands of students in Kerala last year with the launch of online classes, the state government’s KITE Victers channel will now offer a live phone-in-cum-broadcast for Covid prevention as the st…

New Delhi, May 6 : SpiceJet’s air cargo arm SpiceXpress on Thursday airlifted 1,100 oxygen concentrators and other Covid-related medical equipment from Nanjing, China, to New Delhi.The airline used its A330 wide-body aircraft to airlift the concentra…

Gurugram, May 6 : To streamline the liquid medical oxygen distribution and curb black marketing, the Municipal Corporation of Gurugram (MCG) and the district administration have started the token system for Covid patients.Under this initiative, three…

New Delhi, May 6 : Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday chaired a comprehensive review meeting of the Covid-19 situation in the country, during which he was informed about the 12 states which have more than one lakh active cases.The Prime Ministe…

Chandigarh, May 6 : Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar has been adopting proactive strategies to effectively contain the spread of coronavirus in the state by increasing testing with focus on rural areas where the cases have been spiking.As p…

Panaji, May 6 : The Bombay High Court bench in Goa on Thursday directed the state government to make Covid-19 negative certificates issued prior (to 72 hours of entry) mandatory for travellers entering Goa from May 10, while also stating that governm…