A central team led by Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya arrived in Kerala on Monday to review the COVID-19 situation in the state which is presently accounting for more than half of the nation’s daily fresh infection caseload. Kerala on Sunday reported 18,582 new COVID-19
Sri Lanka will import 100 metric tonnes of medical grade oxygen from India next week to meet the shortage of supply in hospitals, the Health-Minister said on Saturday as WHO experts warned that the number of COVID-19 cases and deaths in the country would go
India has done better than any country in the world as regards to affordability and the reach to the people of COVID-19 vaccines, Bharat Biotech Chairman and Managing Director Krishna Ella said on Sunday. Highlighting the enormity of the task of vaccination, Ella said, “When you
Per hour, HMD is producing over 4.2 lacs assorted syringes of which 1.4 lacs are A D Syringes Over 440 million syringes will be supplied by HMD for India’s massive vaccination drive by September of which 365 million were timely supplied till July this year Hindustan Syringes
India reported 38,353 fresh coronavirus infections taking the total tally of COVID-19 cases to 3,20,36,511, while the active cases have declined to 3,86,351, the lowest in 140 days, according to the Union Health Ministry data updated on Wednesday. The volume of deaths has shot up to
Through a blended financing facility, this partnership will support innovators and entrepreneurs in their efforts to further improve healthcare delivery in India Recognising the role of innovations to strengthen India’s response to the COVID-19 crisis and preparedness for emerging healthcare needs, National Health Authority (NHA) has signed a Memorandum
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The most recent wave of Covid-19 cases in the South Asian subcontinent are trickier to negotiate because of an increase in dengue, a mosquito-transmitted virus. The spike in dengue cases is worsening the load of hospitals that are already over-burdened. For instance Sri Lanka reported
A recent study in the Lancet Journal proposes that the risk of heart-attack and stroke is three-times more probable in the two-weeks following a Covid infection. A control group of 348,481 patients were studied in Sweden and the occurrence of myocardial infraction or heart-attack, and
The journal Nature Communications published a study on Friday that claims the level of IgG antibodies against SARS-CoV-2 stays stable, or even increases, as long as seven months into infection. Researchers also say that antibodies against the common-cold can also protect from COVID-19. The objective
