Tag: Health Ministry

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. […]

New Delhi: The health ministry on Tuesday appreciated Odisha for its anti-COVID measures, saying active use of IT, empowering local sarpanchs, and building skilled healthcare force through community participation have led to reduced disease burden with low mortality rates. Some of the key initiatives include support to co-morbid and senior citizens via Sachetak app. Bhubaneswar […]

New Delhi: The Union Health Ministry Saturday said that eight states, which include Maharashtra, Delhi and Tamil Nadu, contributed 85.5 per cent of active Covid-19 cases and also accounted for 87 per cent deaths due to the viral infection. “It was mentioned that presently eight states – Maharashtra, Delhi, Gujarat, Tamil Nadu, Telangana, Uttar Pradesh, […]

New Delhi: The Union Health Ministry has asked all states and UTs to hand over bodies of suspected COVID-19 cases to their relatives without waiting for laboratory confirmation of the infection but said the mortal remains should be disposed of as per government guidelines. A letter on the matter was sent to all states and […]

New Delhi: With a large number of people showing no symptoms testing positive for COVID-19, the Union Health ministry has revised home isolation guidelines to include asymptomatic positive patients in the list of mild or pre-symptomatic Coronavirus infection cases. However, immune compromised patients (included HIV, transplant recipients, cancer therapy) are not eligible for home isolation, […]

New Delhi: Twenty-one states and UTs, including Delhi, Gujarat and Uttar Pradesh, have a COVID-19 recovery rate higher than the national average of 60.77 per cent, the Union Health Ministry said on Sunday as India’s case count mounted to 6.73 lakh and the death toll rose to 19,268. Collective and focused efforts for containment and […]

New Delhi: India recorded its highest single-day spike of 27,114 new coronavirus cases and 519 deaths in the last 24 hours, pushing the total tally to over eight lakh with a total of 22,123 deaths, Health Ministry’s data stated on Saturday. Alarmingly, the country added one lakh cases in merely four days. On Tuesday, the […]

New Delhi: The Union Health Ministry Thursday notified new sets of specified health warnings with enhanced pictorial images to be printed on all tobacco products. The Cigarettes and other Tobacco Products (Packaging and Labelling) Third Amendment Rules, 2020 will come into effect from December 1. It amends the Cigarettes and other Tobacco Products (Packaging and […]

New Delhi: Smokers are likely to be more vulnerable to COVID-19 as smoking increases possibility of transmission of virus from hand to mouth, the Union Health Ministry has said, warning that use of tobacco products can increase severity of respiratory infections and make people susceptible to coronavirus. In its document ‘COVID-19 Pandemic and Tobacco Use […]

Bhubaneswar: Even though there has been a sharp increase in positive cases since July 1, the COVID-19 case fatality rate (CFR) in Odisha is the third lowest in the country. As per the Health Ministry, India’s case fatality rate has been falling and from 3.33% in June it has now dipped to 2.21%. 24 States […]

New Delhi: The Union Health Ministry on Thursday said that herd immunity cannot be a strategic option in a nation the size of India and this can only be achieved through immunisation in the future. Addressing a press conference, Health Secretary Rajesh Bhushan said: “Herd immunity is an indirect protection from a disease. In a […]