Health

New Delhi: Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Saturday announced that Delhi is halting COVID-19 vaccination for 18-44 age group from today as the existing vaccine doses have been exhausted.''As the stock of vaccine for this age group is over,...

New Delhi: At least 420 doctors, including 100 in Delhi, have succumbed to the coronavirus infection in the crippling second wave of the pandemic that has overwhelmed the hospitals and has kept the crematoriums blazing, said The Indian Medical...

New Delhi: Delhi Health Minister Satyendra Jain on Friday said 197 cases of black fungus have so far been recorded in Delhi, including some patients coming from outside of the national capital.Jain highlighted that black fungus or mucormycosis can...

Kolkata: Bharat Biotech a global leader in vaccine innovation, developing vaccines for infectious diseases, announced today, the quick ramp-up of additional manufacturing capacities for COVAXIN, India’s 1st Indigenous Covid 19 Vaccine at CHIRON BEHRING Vaccines, Ankleshwar Gujarat, a wholly-owned...

Bengaluru: The fifth Oxygen Express special train arrived at Whitefield, in the outskirts of the city, from Tatanagar, Jharkhand.A signal free 'Green Corridor' was created by the Railways to enable swift transport of Oxygen express.The train carried 8 Cryogenic...

New Delhi: The Union Health Ministry has urged states and union territories to make black fungus or mucormycosis a notifiable disease under the Epidemic Diseases Act, 1897, stating that the infection is leading to prolonged morbidity and mortality amongst...

Kolkata: The country is currently witnessing the consequences of ignoring the warnings of an imminent second wave from scientists, doctors, and public health experts.Warnings regarding the second wave were based on several factors. A nation-wide seroprevalence study towards the...

Singapore: Singapore will close schools from Wednesday as authorities warned new coronavirus strains like the one first detected in India were affecting more children in the city-state, news agency AFP reported.The government has been tightening restrictions following a recent...

Tokyo: Doctors mistakenly injected an elderly woman in Japan's Aichi prefecture with two shots of Pfizer coronavirus vaccine in one day, Kyodo news agency reported on Sunday.The incident happened on May 13 in a nursing home in the city...

Lucknow: While the entire country is grappling with COVID-19, the new fear of ‘black fungus’ is causing more worries in Uttar Pradesh now.A few cases of this rare and fatal disease have been found among recovered and recovering COVID-19...