Health

Bengaluru, April 18 : Alarmed by the rapid surge in new cases, Karnataka Governor Vajubhai Vala on Sunday directed the state government to bring the Covid situation under control soon.”Take all necessary steps to bring the Covid situation under cont…

Bengaluru, April 18 : Amid the pandemic’s rising second wave, a record 19,067 new Covid cases were registered across Karnataka in a day, including 12,793 in Bengaluru, while 81 patients succumbed to the infection, said the state health department’s b…

New Delhi, April 18 : Amid the weekend curfew imposed in the national capital since 10 p.m. on Friday, in addition to the night curfew, as an attempt to break the chain of coronavirus, Delhi continued to see a surge in daily Covid-19 cases.Delhi reg…

Gurugram, April 18 : The Covid surge in Gurugram continued on Sunday as 2,401 new cases were reported taking the total tally to 81,725 while with two more deaths the toll reached 378, health officials said.Out of the total cases, 69,151 have recupera…

Jammu, April 18 : With J (and) K logging 1,526 new Covid cases on Sunday, authorities ordered closure of all universities, colleges and schools in the Union Territory till May 15.An order issued by the Disaster Management, Relief and Rehabilitation D…

Chennai, April 18 : In view of the surge in Covid cases, the Tamil Nadu government on Sunday decided to postpone the Class 12 board examinations.More than 8 lakh students were to appear for the examinations scheduled to be held between May 5 to 31.Ho…

New Delhi, April 18 : Production lines in India, making at least 160 million doses of Covid vaccine a month, will come to a halt in the coming weeks unless America supplies 37 critical items, The Economist reported.A report in The Economist said last…

Thiruvananthapuram, April 18 : Amid Covid surge in the state, the universities in Kerala have postponed all offline exams scheduled from Monday onwards following a communique from the Kerala Governor Arif Mohammed Khan.Calicut University, MG Universi…

Chennai, April 18 : The Tamil Nadu public health department is taking blood samples and plasma randomly in 888 clusters for the state’s second sero survey.The survey will continue till April-end as some districts have commenced the survey after the e…

Lucknow, April 18 : Uttar Pradesh witnessed a complete lockdown on Sunday and the state government undertook a massive sanitization drive in all major cities.The lockdown was near total and a few medicine shops and outlets selling essential items rem…