Singapore: Singapore will close schools from Wednesday as authorities warned new coronavirus strains like the one first detected in India were affecting more children in the city-state. The government has been tightening restrictions…

Over the past two decades, India has achieved impressive gains in reducing maternal deaths. India’s maternal mortality rate (maternal deaths/100,000 live births) has decreased from 407 in 2000 to 113 in 2016-18, according to the Sample…

New Delhi: Last week, Megastar Amitabh Bachchan received his second dose of the COVID-19 vaccine. On May 16 (Sunday) Big B took to social media to share the news. The 78-year-old actor posted a picture of himself from the vaccination…

By William Petri, Professor of Medicine, University of Virginia Charlottesville (US) When COVID-19 first began spreading, public health and medical experts began talking about the need for the US to reach herd immunity to stop the…

New Delhi: The first batch of anti-COVID oral drug 2-DG, developed by the DRDO, was released on Monday by Defence Minister Rajnath Singh and Health Minister Harsh Vardhan. The Drugs Controller General of India (DGCI) approved the…

New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday (May 14) said the coronavirus pandemic is rapidly spreading in rural areas, as he urged citizens to take precautions, wear masks and maintain social distance to check spread disease that has…

Mumbai: Megastar Amitabh Bachchan on Friday shared the “arduous” process of procuring oxygen concentrators and ventilators for donation as he said every individual effort goes a long way in the fight against the coronavirus pandemic. Giving…

New Delhi: Mucormycosis, a fungal infection, being found in COVID-19 patients with compromised immunity is resulting in disfiguration and in some cases, it is proving to be fatal. Mucormycosis is a fungal infection that mainly affects…

New Delhi: According to the World Health Organisation, India continues to account for 95 per cent of COVID-19 cases and 93 per cent of deaths in the South-East Asia region, as well as 50 per cent of global cases and 30 per cent of global…

New Delhi: Russia’s Gam-COVID-Vac combined vector vaccine, popularly called Sputnik-V vaccine has been launched in the country on Friday (May 14) by Hyderabad-based pharmaceutical company Dr Reddy’s Laboratories Limited (DRL). The company…

New Delhi: Oxygen concentrators – something which is on everybody’s mind right now as India gasp for the basic necessity in this deadly second wave of coronavirus. At a time like this, when India fresh COVID-19 cases is increasing on a…

New Delhi: As the COVID-19 wave gradually shifts to rural areas, several states are gearing up to check its spread through self-proclaimed lockdowns by Panchayati Raj institutions, creating a database of migrants and providing free online…

Chandigarh: Amid rising COVID-19 related fatalities, the Indian Institute of Technology, Ropar has come up with an eco-friendly cremation cart, fitted with stainless steel insulation for ensuring no heat loss and less wood consumption. The…

Geneva: The world had ignored warnings which resulted in the outbreak of COVID-19, and the international system could have prevented it from escalating in to the devastating pandemic, an independent global panel concluded on Wednesday (May…

London: Mixing the doses of different types of two-dose coronavirus vaccines has been found to be safe but increased the frequency of mild to moderate symptoms, a new UK study has found. The COM-COV study, led by the University of Oxford,…

New Delhi: Union Health Minister Dr Harsh Vardhan on Wednesday (May 12) expressed concern over the rapid surge in COVID-19 cases in eight states and Union Territories, and said the pace of surge is worrisome. As per the Ministry of Health…