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,

The Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) has decided to tie up with private labs for coronavirus testing, saying that collected samples remain pending at times due to low testing capacity. In the initial phase, the civic body plans to send at least 500 samples per day

The government is supplying 50,000 'Made in India' ventilators to state-run COVID-19 hospitals and has allocated ₹2,000 crore for this from PM-CARES fund, according to a statement from the PM's Office. At least 2,923 ventilators have already been manufactured, of which 1,340 ventilators have been

The total number of coronavirus cases in India has increased to 4,56,183 from Tuesday's 4,40,215 cases. This marks the biggest one-day jump with 15,968 cases in 24 hours. Meanwhile, the coronavirus death toll in the country has reached 14,476, with 28 states and Union Territories

WHO chief Tedros Ghebreyesus has called for rapid increase in production of dexamethasone, after British clinical trials found the steroid had life-saving potential for critically-ill coronavirus patients. He stated that dexamethasone demand has already surged. However, Ghebreyesus said there is no evidence it works for

The outpatient department (OPD) services at AIIMS, Delhi are set to resume from June 25, after being shut for almost three months due to COVID-19 pandemic. "The OPD services will start for all the follow-up cases after providing the teleconsultation," said an AIIMS doctor. Notably,

Abbott's SARS-CoV-2 IgG test can be used for highly-reliable, large-scale antibody testing, in line with the ICMR recommendation for the use of IgG CLIA (Chemiluminescence immunoassay) tests Abbott's antibody test is being deployed by many hospitals and labs across the country to understand the extent of

The School of Pharmaceutical Sciences at Apeejay Stya University (ASU) has announced admissions for the year 2020-21 in Diploma in Pharmacy (D. Pharm), Bachelor of Pharmacy (B. Pharm).All the programmes at the School of Pharmaceutical Sciences (ASU) have been approved by the Pharmacy Council of

Many countries that have been successful in tackling COVID-19 are seeing an increase in cases, World Health Organization's COVID-19 Technical Lead Maria Van Kerkhove has said. She added that cases are increasing due to religious or leisure gatherings or in closed quarters like nightclubs and

BMC Municipal commissioner IS Chahal said that BMC will increase bed capacity in Mumbai from the current 84,000 to 1 lakh by June-end for treatment of COVID-19 patients. He added that the number of ICU beds would be increased by 300 by June 25. "We're