Tag: covid

The UK could be the first country in the world to carry out Covid 'challenge trials', where healthy volunteers would be deliberately infected with coronavirus to test possible vaccines, a report said. ....

Deputy Chief Minister of Delhi, Manish Sisodia, already receiving treatment for Covid-19 disease, was on Thursday diagnosed with Dengue. ....

On the occasion of 65th foundation of All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), the Union Health Minister Dr Harsh Vardhan inaugurated an e-exhibition themed 'AIIMS in the times of COVID-19' highlighting the contribution of the premier institute to deal with the COVID-19 led public health emergency, on Friday. ....

Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan on Sunday cautioned that the ICMR's Sero survey report should not create a sense of complacency in people, as the Indian population is not even close to achieving herd immunity. ....

US President Donald Trump has said that India does not give a "straight count" on the Covid-19 deaths and is dirtying the environment.....

The states are now free to decide on reopening of schools after October 15 given the current Covid-19 pandemic. In view of this, the Ministry of Education has prepared Standard Operating Procedures for the reopening of schools. ....

Roughly 10 per cent of the world's population may have been infected with the Coronavirus, leaving the vast majority vulnerable to the Covid-19 disease, the World Health Organization has said. ....

With a fresh spike of 78,524 coronavirus cases and 971 deaths in 24 hours, India's tally on Thursday went past the 68-lakh-mark with a total of 68,35,655 cases. ....

Veteran Bengali actor Soumitra Chatterjee was shifted to Intensive Care Unit in a private hospital late Friday night after the 85-year-old's health deteriorated, hospital sources said on Saturday. ....

After corporation-run Hindu Rao Hospital doctors decided to withdraw from corona duties to protest non-payment of dues, the Delhi government decided to shift COVID patients to state-run hospitals, Health Minister Satyendar Jain said on Saturday. ....