Health

Bengaluru, Feb 14 : At least 40 students of a private nursing college in Bengaluru have tested positive for the coronavirus, health officials said.The officials on Saturday said that that most of these students are from Kerala and the mass testing wi…

New Delhi, Feb 13 : India is being lavishly praised in the international media for its vaccine diplomacy and helping other countries in time of need.”India has emerged the surprise leader of the global vaccine diplomacy race.It has exported three tim…

New Delhi, Feb 13 : The Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare informed on Saturday that 7,688 beneficiaries of the first dose of Covid vaccine turned up to receive their second shot, which comes to just 4 per cent of the beneficiaries who recei…

Thiruvananthapuram, Feb 13 : For the first time in recent weeks, Kerala’s daily Covid test positivity rate (TPR) on Saturday came down below 7 per cent with 5,471 people testing positive out of 85,969 samples tested in the past 24 hours.In a statemen…

New Delhi, Feb 13 : Mathematical calculations indicate that Covaxin may provide immunity against Covid-19 for 9 to 12 months, and there may be a booster shot after this period elapses, Y.K.Gupta, the President of AIIMS Bhopal and Jammu, told IANS.Str…

Amaravati, Feb 13 : Andhra Pradesh on Saturday began administering the second dose of coronavirus vaccine to frontline workers.Healthcare and Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS) workers are taking the second vaccine shot at the same place th…

Amaravati, Feb 13 : Andhra Pradesh on Saturday began administering the second dose of coronavirus vaccine to frontline workers.Healthcare and Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS) workers are taking the second vaccine shot at the same place th…

New Delhi, Feb 13 : : The air quality of the national capital mounted to ‘very poor’ category, with the hourly average air quality index at 332 micrograms per cubic meter on Saturday due to low wind speed.According to Ministry of Earth Sciences’s …

New Delhi, Feb 13 : : The air quality of the national capital mounted to ‘very poor’ category, with the hourly average air quality index at 332 micrograms per cubic meter on Saturday due to low wind speed.According to Ministry of Earth Sciences’s …

New Delhi, Feb 13 : Despite testimonies and experience from peers, the vaccine hesitancy among healthcare workers has continued.The reason for the hesitancy is absence of “medical ritual” for adult vaccination in the country.”Barring a few exceptions…