Health

Hyderabad, May 1 : Covid vaccine shortage has forced health authorities in Telangana to stop vaccination programme on Saturday and Sunday.On a day when phase 3 of Covid immunization for those between 18-44 years was scheduled for a roll out across th…

New Delhi, May 1 : India witnessed highest spike of 4,01,999 fresh cases of Covid-19 and 3,523 fatalities due to coronavirus infection in the last 24 hours, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MoHF) said on Saturday.It was the first time when Indi…

Jaipur, May 1 : The lockdown restrictions in Rajasthan have been extended till May 17 with new guidelines where number of guests in a marriage party has been reduced to 31.Announcing the guidelines late on Friday night, the home department termed it …

New Delhi, May 1 : Amid devastating second wave of Covid-19 in the country including the national capital, the patients are increasingly feeling helpless as hospitals are struggling to properly handle the influx of patients.In Delhi, many patients an…

Bengaluru, May 1 : Battered by the onslaught of the second of the Covid-19 pandemic, Karnataka reported an all-time high single-day spike of 48,296 Covid cases in the last 24 hours, including a staggering 26,756 infections in Bengaluru alone, the sta…

New Delhi, April 30 : Amid the raging second wave of the Covid-19 pandemic in India, the country will start receiving consignments of Russian Sputnik V vaccine doses from May 1 onwards.India is expected to receive 5 million doses of the vaccine by Ju…

Jaipur, April 30 : Hours after announcing that Rajasthan would curtail Phase 3 of the Covid vaccination drive to those aged 35-45 due to insufficient vaccine doses, state Health Minister Raghu Sharma on Friday said that inoculation of all aged 18-45 …

Chandigarh, April 30 : The Chandigarh Administration in Friday decided to impose weekend curfew in the city, along the lines of nearby townships Mohali and Panchkula.”There will be weekend corona curfew on Saturday and Sunday in Chandigarh too on sim…

New Delhi, April 30 : India on Friday allowed the import of oxygen concentrators under the ‘gift’ item category, thereby exempting the crucial medical device from customs duty.Concentrators are used to provide oxygen to ease difficulty in breathing, …

Amaravati, April 30 : Andhra Pradesh continued to reel under the Covid onslaught on Friday, with the state registering yet another all-time high single-day spike of 17,354 coronavirus cases. The state’s previous highest daily tally of 14,792 cases wa…