Health

Chandigarh, Jan 2 : A dry run to check the best way to vaccinate people against Covid-19 and plug loopholes in logistics was conducted in Panchkula district on Saturday with an aim to vaccinate 67 lakh people in the first phase in Haryana.Additional …

Guwahati/Agartala/Imphal, Jan 2 : A drill for vaccination against coronavirus was conducted on Saturday in all eight north-eastern states, as part of the nationwide drill across the country, officials said.The first such drill was held on December 28…

Gandhinagar, Jan 2 : The four passengers who returned from the UK on December 22 and had tested positive at the Ahmedabad airport, have been found to be infected with the new strain of coronavirus which is considered to be more deadly than the curren…

Panaji, Jan 2 : Without taking names, Health Minister Vishwajit Rane on Saturday slammed Goa MLAs and Ministers for exerting pressure on health department officials and government doctors to prematurely discharge UK returnees from institutional isola…

New Delhi, Jan 2 : As India gears up to launch the world’s largest immunisation drive, almost all states and Union Territory (UT) governments, including the national capital, conducted a dry run on Saturday to assess their ability and readiness to ad…

Chennai, Jan 2 : A drill for Covid-19 vaccination was conducted smoothly on Saturday at the Rajiv Gandhi Government General Hospital and Madras Medical College, a top official said.”By afternoon, the drill was completed for 27 persons,” Therani Rajan…

New Delhi, Jan 2 : Passengers travelling from the United Kingdom to India from January 8 to 31 will now be subjected to mandatory self-paid RT-PCR test at the airport, the Health Ministry said on Saturday.Flight services between the two countries wer…

New Delhi, Jan 2 : The Delhi government on Saturday announced free Covid-19 vaccine doses to people in the capital city while and ensured the inoculation of one lakh people on a regular basis soon after it receives it from the Centre.Delhi Health Min…

New Delhi, Jan 2 : A committee of experts assessing the coronavirus vaccines has called Hyderabad-based Bharat Biotech for a meeting at 1.30 pm on Saturday, a day after the firm was asked to present more data on its ‘Covaxin’ to get the go-ahead, a t…

Bhubaneswar, Jan 2 : As India gears up for a Coronavirus vaccination process, the dry run for immunization activity goes underway at 31 places of Odisha as part of the nation-wide exercise, said an official on Saturday.The vaccination sites have been…