The Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) has approved ₹7.5 crore to cover the cost of tests carried out by private laboratories, standing committee chairman, Hemant Rasane, said. The move will help increase the daily COVID-19 testing capacity in Pune by 500, he added. PMC is currently

The Advertising Standards Council of India (ASCI) has said it found 50 campaigns by Ayurveda and homoeopathic drug makers offering cure for COVID-19 in April alone. ASCI added that it alerted the government about them as they violated AYUSH Ministry's order on misleading advertisements. The

All African countries have now developed laboratory capacity to test for COVID-19, WHO's Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on Wednesday. Head of the Africa Centres for Disease Control John Nkengasong urged African countries to secure sufficient vaccine supplies to avoid Africa being left out. Africa reported

Pune Divisional Commissioner Deepak Mhaisekar issued a warning against those flouting rules by not wearing masks amid coronavirus. "State government has directed strict implementation of mandatory mask rule

Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) on Tuesday validated the 1,000th COVID-19 testing laboratory in order to intensify testing across India. Out of these 1,000 laboratories, 730 are in government setups and 270 are in the private sector. "Our goal was to establish a lab

Mumbai-based drugmaker Cipla on Tuesday said it will price 'Cipremi', its generic version of Gilead's remdesivir for use in Covid-19 patients, at less than ₹5,000 per 100mg vial. Hyderabad's Hetero Labs, which also gained approval to sell a generic version of remdesivir in India, had

In the US, Robert Redfield, Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) told Congress that coronavirus has "brought this nation to its knees". "We have all done the best that we can do to tackle this virus," he said. "We are probably

Chief Economic Adviser Krishnamurthy Subramanian has said India's economy could see a V-shaped recovery this year if the "uncertainty from the health side is taken care of" and a COVID-19 vaccine is found. In the absence of a vaccine, the recovery will have to wait

The government today said it has taken cognizance of the news about ayurvedic medicines developed for treatment of COVID-19 by Patanjali. It added facts of the claim and details of the scientific study are not known to it. It further asked Patanjali for details about

South Africa has reported over 1.01 lakh COVID-19 cases, nearly a third of Africa's total number of cases at over 3.12 lakh, the WHO's Regional Office for Africa said. Over 1.49 lakh have recovered from coronavirus in Africa, 53,444 of them are in South Africa,