Health

New Delhi, Dec 30 : As India awaits the coronavirus vaccine rollout with bated breath, the national capital is gearing up for ensuing the vaccination drive and aims to inoculate all the healthcare workers in the city within five days, a member of Del…

New Delhi, Dec 30 : Hyderabad-based Bharat Biotech will make a presentation before the Subject Expert Committee of the Central Drug Standard Control Organisation (CDSCO) on Wednesday evening for approval of its vaccine – Covaxin, government sources t…

Patna, Dec 30 : Health services continued to be affected in Bihar as the junior doctors’ strike entered the eighth day on Wednesday.Around 1,500 junior doctors of the state’s prominent government medical colleges and hospitals went on a strike on Dec…

New Delhi, Dec 30 : Union Health Secretary Rajesh Bhushan has written to all the states and union territories asking them to curb crowding in the wake New Year celebration and keep a strict vigil on all events that could be a potential superspreader,…

Hyderabad, Dec 30 : Coronavirus cases in Telangana continued to decline as the state reported 474 new cases on Wednesday and deaths of only three more patients.While the state’s case tally went up to 2,85,939, the death toll increased to 1,538.The st…

Lucknow, Dec 30 : The Yogi Adityanath government in Uttar Pradesh has decided to revive the Arogya Mela that was suspended due to the outbreak of Covid pandemic in March.Sanjay Prasad, the principal secretary to the Chief Minister, said the state gov…

New Delhi, Dec 30 : With 20,550 new coronavirus infections and 286 deaths in the past 24 hours, India’s overall tally stood at 1,02,44,853 on Wednesday, while the death toll touched 1,48,439, the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare said.Till now, 9…

Bhubaneswar, Dec 30 : Legendary music director Shantanu Mohapatra passed away at a private hospital here on Tuesday night.He was 84.Mohapatra was suffering from acute pneumonia and other old-age related ailment, informed family sources.Mohapatra has …

Jaipur, Dec 30 : A total of 550 UK returnees have been traced in Rajasthan so far, health officials said here on Wednesday.Of these, the samples of 521 have been collected, 11 have been sent to Pune for further testing for the mutant virus and three …

New Delhi, Dec 30 : As the country awaits the UK’s approval to the AstraZeneca-Oxford vaccine before giving nod for Emergency Use Authorisation to its Indian counterpart developed by Pune-based Serum Institute of India (SII), a top European drug offi…