Tag: Health Ministry

New Delhi: With the number of coronavirus cases in the country climbing to 56,342 on Friday, the Union Health Ministry said that “we have to learn to live with the virus” and that “it is a difficult battle, we need everyone’s cooperation”. Addressing mediapersons, Lav Agarwal, Joint Secretary at the Health Ministry, said, “We have […]

New Delhi: The testing capacity for COVID-19 has been scaled up to around 95,000 tests per day and a total of 15,25,631 tests have been conducted so far across 332 government and 121 private laboratories, Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan said on Saturday. The minister, who reviewed the status of COVID-19 in the northeastern states […]

New Delhi: This is one ‘Make in India’ project that will not only make you proud but save countless lives too. The National Institute of Virology in Pune has successfully developed the first indigenous anti-SARS-CoV-2A (Covid-19) human IgG ELISA test kit for antibody detection of the deadly virus, Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan announced on […]

New Delhi: India saw the highest spike of 4,213 new coronavirus cases in 24 hours taking the total tally up to 67,152, the Union Health Ministry said on Monday. At least 97 new fatalities were also reported in a day. Of the total cases, 44,029 are active and 2,206 are fatalities so far while at […]

New Delhi: With 3,525 new cases reported in the last 24 hours, the COVID-19 tally in India reached 74,281, the Union Health Ministry said on Wednesday. Of the total cases, 47480 are active and 2,415 are fatalities so far while at least 24,385 people have recovered from the disease. India #COVID19 Status (May 13, 8 […]

New Delhi: With 3,722 new cases reported in the last 24 hours, the COVID-19 tally in India reached 78,003, the Union Health Ministry stated on Thursday. Of the total cases, 49,219 are active and 2,549 are fatalities so far while at least 26,234 people have recovered from the disease. #CoronaVirusUpdates: #COVID19 India Tracker (As on […]

New Delhi: With a surge of 4,987 new cases and 120 new fatalities, the total tally of novel Coronavirus cases in India stood at 90,927 on Sunday, the Union Health Ministry said. The number of active COVID-19 cases stood at 53,946, while 34,108 people have recovered and one patient has migrated, the ministry said. “Thus, […]

New Delhi: As Lockdown4.0 brought in a slew of ease from restrictions across the country, India on Friday broke its own 24-hour record adding 6,088 cases in single day as the total number of the novel Coronavirus cases touched 1,18,447, the Union Health Ministry data said. On Thursday it reported 5,609 cases in 24-hours after […]

New Delhi: The Union Ministry for Health and Family Welfare has issued guidelines for international arrivals into India through air, sea and land routes. In the issued guidelines, the ministry has made 14-day quarantine and installation of Aarogya Setu App mandatory for every person entering India. As notified by the Union Ministry, before boarding, all […]

New Delhi: To augment hospital infrastructure for management of severe cases of coronavirus, the Union Health Ministry has advised all central ministries to ask hospitals under their control or PSUs…

New Delhi: With 8,392 new cases reported in the last 24 hours, the COVID-19 tally in India reached 1,90,535, the Union Health Ministry stated on Monday. Of the total cases, 93,322 are active and 5,394 are fatalities so far while at least 91,819 people have recovered from the disease. #COVID19 India Update: 8392 new #coronavirus […]

New Delhi: With the biggest-ever jump of 9,887 new cases and 298 deaths in past 24 hours, the Covid-19 tally in India reached 2,36,657 on Saturday, a Health Ministry data revealed. India’s death toll due to COVID-19 rose to 6,642 with a record increase of 294 deaths in the 24 hours till Saturday 8 AM. […]

New Delhi: The Health Ministry on Saturday said that the recovery rate from Covid-19 in the country stood at 48.20 per cent, from a total of 2,36,657 confirmed cases. Notably, India has now overtaken Italy, which has recorded 2,34,531 cases in total. “During the last 24 hours, a total of 4,611 COVID-19 patients have been cured. […]

New Delhi: Seeking to facilitate availability of experimental drugs for severely-ill COVID-19 patients, the Union Health Ministry has issued a draft notification for “compassionate use” of any unapproved drug that is in the phase-III clinical trial globally. The draft New Drugs and Clinical Trials (Amendment) Rules stipulate manufacture and import of unapproved drugs based on […]

New Delhi: Loss of smell or taste has been added to the list of COVID-19 symptoms, according to the revised clinical management protocols released by the Union Health Ministry on Saturday. The ministry listed muscle pain, diarrhea, congested nasal cavity, sputum production as COVID-19 symptoms, besides fever, cough, fatigue, sore throat and shortness of breath. […]