The World Health Organisation reported a record increase in global coronavirus cases on Sunday, with the total rising by 183,020 in 24-hour period. The biggest increase was from North and South America with over 116,000 new cases, the WHO said. Total global cases are over

Drug firm Glenmark Pharmaceuticals on Saturday said that it has launched antiviral drug Favipiravir, under the brand name FabiFlu, for the treatment of patients with mild to moderate coronavirus symptoms at a price of around ₹103 per tablet. FabiFlu is India's first oral antiviral drug

Maharashtra government has allocated ₹12.44 crore to increase COVID-19 testing capacity of Pune's Sassoon General Hospital. "A fund of ₹8.90 crore

As many as 14,516 coronavirus cases were reported in India in last 24 hours, taking the total number of cases in the country to 3,95,048. This is the first time that over 14,000 coronavirus cases have been reported in a single day in India. Meanwhile,

WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus today said, "The world is in a new and dangerous phase". He added, "More than 1.5 lakh coronavirus cases were reported to WHO yesterday, the most in a single day." He further said, "Almost half of those cases were reported

Glenmark Pharmaceuticals has received manufacturing and marketing approval from India's drug regulator to launch the oral antiviral drug favipiravir for the treatment of mild to moderate COVID-19 patients in India, the company said in a statement on Friday. "It is for restricted emergency use in

Delhi Lieutenant Governor Anil Baijal has passed an order making five-day institutional quarantine mandatory for all those who test COVID-19 positive. The patients will be sent for home isolation after five days except in cases where symptoms require hospitalisation, the order said. The District surveillance

Conceived and developed at lightning speed and manufactured and assembled in 8 days at Transasia's Vizag manufacturing facility Named iLAB, it was officially flagged off by Dr. Harsh Vardhan, WHO Executive Board Chairman and Minister of Health and Family Welfare, GoI, in New Delhi Fully equipped to

Manipal Hospitals New Delhi gives a new lease of life to a Sudanese patient, COVID-19 and lockdown delays return of patient Osama Ali to Sudan by two months It is an ordeal for Sudan citizen 45-years –old Osama Ali who first faced life-threatening liver failure and

The mobile lab, also called I-Lab or Infectious Diseases Diagnostics Lab, can run 50 RT-PCR and about 200 ELISA tests in a day. NEW DELHI: Union Science and Technology Minister Harsh Vardhan on Thursday launched a mobile laboratory for coronavirus testing which can be deployed in rural areas and help in promoting