Health

New Delhi, March 17 : Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA), the aviation regulator, on Wednesday told the Delhi High Court that it is keeping a strict vigil on the non-compliance of Covid-19 protocols on flights.DGCA’s response came after th…

New Delhi, March 17 : India on Wednesday logged 28,903 new Covid-19 cases and 188 fatalities in the last 24 hours, with five states driving up the daily cases.Maharashtra alone accounts for 61.8 per cent of the daily new cases with 17,864 cases.It is…

New Delhi, March 17 : Adar Poonawalla, CEO, Serum Institute of India (SII) has said that vaccine nationalism in countries, including the US and India is likely to derail efforts to deliver 2 billion doses to poorer and middle-income nations.In an int…

Mumbai, March 17 : Mumbai’ Municipal Commissioner I. S. Chahal was conferred the ‘Lokmat Maharashtrian of the Year 2021 Award’ for his meritorious efforts to control the spread of the Covid-19 scourge in the city.Unon Finance Minister Nirmal Sitharam…

New Delhi, March 17 : A year after the Covid-19 outbreak and two months, which recorded a sharp decline in cases across the country, the pandemic is rearing its head again.Initially, it appeared that the infection was only picking up in Maharashtra a…

Lucknow, March 17 : Despite surge in the number of Covid-19 cases in the state, the Yogi Adityanath government has ruled out any night curfew and lockdown in any part of the state.UP Health Minister Jai Pratap Singh said that the government machinery…

New Delhi, March 17 : The vaccines being supplied to foreign nations are not being sent on the expense of Indian taxpayers and a healthy balance is being maintained in the utilisation of vaccine doses, following the criteria set by the World Health O…

Gurugram, March 17 : In Gurugram a rapid phase of the Covid-19 vaccination drive is being conducted in 89 hospitals.These include 37 government health centres and 52 private hospitals.So far, 1,13,683 doses of the vaccine have been given in the distr…

Bengaluru, March 17 : Continuing an upward trend, new Covid cases crossed the 1,000 mark in a day across Karnataka, with Bengaluru accounting for 710 of them, the state health bulletin said on Tuesday.”With 1,135 new cases registered on Monday, the s…

Gandhinagar, March 17 : Gujarat on Tuesday saw 954 new Covid cases, taking its tally to 2,80,051, while the death toll climbed to 4,427, with two patients succumbing.The state is again started seeing a rapid rise in the daily Covid tally, which has r…