With 1 million COVID-19 shots in just 6 days, India’s vaccination drive becomes the world’s fastest The Indian government has vaccinated nearly 16 lakh people against COVID-19 since the launch of its mass inoculation drive on January 16. According to the Health Ministry, authorities have administered approximately 10 lakh vaccine shots in just six days, ...

Dry run evaluation: On Thursday, a day before nationwide dry run was carried out for Covid-19 vaccination in 736 districts across India, Union Health Minister Dr. Harsh Vardhan had an interaction with state health ministers. The agenda of meeting was to review logistics and preparedness in place for dry run.  The key suggestions that were ...

New COVID-19 strain: More than 22 passengers flying from the United Kingdom to India have tested positive for Coronavirus Amid the alarming concerns over a new COVID-19 strain, at least 22 people who came to India from the United Kingdom over the past few days have tested positive for the disease.  As per media reports, ...

India to get first AYUSH-approved ayurvedic COVID-19 drug: YUSH Ministry has approved the manufacture of an ayurvedic drug for treatment of COVID-19 disease Dalmia Healthcare is all set to launch a polyherbal combination of 15 herbs called Astha-15 for the treatment of COVID-19 disease. Its research centre, Dalmia Centre for Research and Development (DCRD), has ...

 India has been grappling to contain the Covid-19 infection spread for almost seven months now. On Friday, the country recorded Covid-19 caseload reduced below the 6 lakh mark after 85 days. The active positive cases tally was 5.94 lakh on Friday, less than the 5.96 lakh mark on August 6. The Union Health Ministry issued ...

Amid the ongoing efforts to combat the novel Coronavirus pandemic in the country, the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) on Tuesday said that a person can get reinfected with COVID-19 if antibodies against the virus reduce in their body within five months after recovering from the disease. In line with this development, ICMR Director-General ...

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Sunday condemned the Union Government’s handling of the COVID-19 crisis in India. Taking to Twitter, he shared a BBC video showing how India responded to the pandemic crisis. The video briefed about various aspects of India’s response to COVID-19 ranging from the plight of migrant workers after a nationwide lockdown ...

After recording the highest number of Coronavirus infections around September 17 with more than 98,000 cases in a single day, India’s daily tally of new COVID-19 cases has steadily declined in the past three weeks. With this developments, experts have suggested that the first COVID-19 wave in India appears to be receding for the first ...

The union health ministry launched a website that will provide continually updated information on the status of vaccine development and trials in India. Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan announced the launch of the ‘vaccine web portal’ and the ‘national clinical registry for COVID-19’, developed for the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR). The portal will ...

With the last phase (Unlock 4) of post-pandemic reopening of the economy coming to an end on September 30, Prime Minister Narendra Modi held a meeting with the chief ministers of seven states that are worst affected by COVID-19. On Wednesday, chief ministers of Delhi, Maharashtra, Karnataka, Uttar Pradesh, Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu and Punjab ...