Health

Chandigarh, April 24 : Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh on Saturday ordered the shutdown of operations in the state’s iron and steel industries to divert oxygen for medical use, along with immediate establishment of its control rooms at the stat…

Hyderabad, April 24 : Telangana Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao on Saturday announced free Covid vaccination for all the eligible beneficiaries in the state.”It will cost Rs 2,500 crore to vaccinate everybody and money is not that important when …

Chennai, April 24 : It is going to be a total lockdown in Tamil Nadu on Sunday, with some exceptions, to curtail the rapid spread of coronavirus in the state.According to the police, the violators of the lockdown measures will be penalised.The state …

Gandhinagar, April 24 : Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Saturday said that the central government has sanctioned 11 new PSA oxygen plants to be set up in Gujarat and they will be operational shortly.Shah was speaking in Gandhinagar while inauguratin…

New Delhi, April 24 : As the crisis in treatment of Covid affected people is increasing and hospitals running out of oxygen, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh held a review meeting on Saturday on the ministry’s preparedness to deal with the current situ…

New Delhi, April 24 : Insufficient supply of oxygen in the national capital is not helping the hospitals.Several hospital administrations said that every few hours they have an oxygen crisis and the whole administration is only busy in making frantic…

Panaji, April 24 : Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s ‘Diya Jalao’ call to mark the fight against Covid-19, a year back, has culminated with burning pyres across the country, Goa Congress president Girish Chodankar said on Saturday.”There are disturbing …

Bengaluru, April 24 : A 61-year-old Covid patient has committed suicide at a hospital here, the police said on Saturday.According to the police, the deceased is identified as Ramanna, a resident of Anjana Nagar, Sunkadakatte of Bengaluru.The police s…

Amaravati, April 24 : Andhra Pradesh Health Minister Alla Kali Krishna Srinivas said the state government is expected to spend Rs 1,600 crore on free vaccination for all people in the age group of 18 to 45 years.Chief Minister Y.S.Jagan Mohan Reddy t…

Chennai, April 24 : City based pharma company Apex Laboratories will take the doctor’s prescription route for its oral antiviral CleVira tablet that got the Central government’s approval as a supporting measure for mild to moderate condition of Covid…