NEW DELHI: India reported the first six cases of the mutant strain of Coronavirus, as six returnees from the UK tested positive, the Health Ministry said Tuesday. He said the mutated UK strain was detected in samples at NIMHANS, Bengaluru, at CCMB, Hyderabad and one at NIV, Pune. All of …
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NEW DELHI: With three anti-Covid vaccines under regulatory review for emergency use, the government is preparing 28,947 cold chain points with 85,643 pieces of equipment across the country that are capable of storing the vaccines needed for the first set than 3 crore of health and frontline workers. The Center …
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NEW YORK: Indian-origin global health expert Anil Soni has been appointed as the first executive director of the newly launched The WHO Foundation, which works alongside the World Health Organization to address the most pressing health challenges in all the world. Soni will assume his role as inaugural executive director …
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NEW DELHI: The number of active Covid-19 cases in India has dropped to 4.80,719, recording a four-day streak of less than five lakh of active cases, the Health Ministry said on Saturday. In a statement, the ministry said the share of active cases in total positive cases has further decreased …
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NEW DELHI: There has never been an oxygen shortage in the country in the last 10 months and there has been no shortage today, the Health Ministry said Tuesday. At a press conference, the Union Health Secretary Rajesh Bhushan said that daily production capacity increased to 6,862 metric tons in …
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NEW DELHI: A total of 11,72,179 samples were collected for Covid-19 testing on Wednesday, bringing the total number of samples tested for coronavirus in the country to 4,55,09,380, the Indian Research Council reported. Medical (ICMR). “India is witnessing an unprecedented increase in testing. More than 11.70,000 tests performed in the …
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NEW DELHI: India has been reporting one of the lowest Covid-19 death rates in the world, and the figure has declined further to 1.76 percent compared to a global average of 3.3 percent, said the Wednesday the Union Ministry of Health. He also said that Covid-19 deaths per million people …
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