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
GE Healthcare today announced the graduation of its first batch of startups who were part of Cohort-1 of ‘Edison[X] - Startups powered by GE Healthcare’, its startup collaboration program based out of India. The Demo Day featured five impressive health tech startups, each solving some
The Centre on Thursday warned states that hospitals and institutions not releasing salaries of healthcare workers engaged in COVID-19 duty timely could get penalised under the Disaster Management Act. Union Health Secretary Preeti Sudan, in a letter written to all the state chief secretaries, said
