Corona Virus

Faced with the lack of oxygen supply and hospital beds due to the onslaught of the second surge of Covid-19 pandemic, many public and private sector undertakings, and not for profit and non-governmental organisations have come forward to…

 In the highest figure so far, a record 58,395 patients recovered from Covid in a day across Karnataka, including 31,795 in Bengaluru, while 525 died of the infection, the state health bulletin on Tuesday said."With 58,395 patients…

Giving a clarion call to people to join hands for saving the rural areas from the scourge of the Covid-19 pandemic, Deputy Commissioner Varinder Kumar Sharma on Wednesday led the administration and personally sensitized the rural folks…

A 150-bed Covid care centre with oxygen supply was opened at the Bengaluru airport on the city's northern outskirts to treat asymptomatic patients with mild hypoxia, said the operator on Wednesday."Karnataka Chief Minister B.S. Yediyurappa…

Covid-19 vaccination programmes across Africa and much of the developing world will suffer big delays after India, the worlds biggest vaccine producer, said that it would not be exporting the Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine until the end of the…

In order to tackle the COVID crisis by way of providing timely treatment and further ramping up the bed capacity in the state, the government of Punjab through the Department of Health has initiated the process of granting approval for…

Chandigarh Advisor Manoj Parida on Wednesday inaugurated the Project Q Mini Covid Centre, set up by the Rotary Satellite Club of the Union Territory in association with the local administration. Parida expressed his gratitude to Rotarians…

Telangana Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao on Tuesday decided to extend the lockdown in the state up to May 30.He took the decision after speaking to ministers over the phone and eliciting their opinion, according to a statement from…

Maharashtra's Covid-19 new infections remained below the 30,000 level and in Mumbai, fell below in the 1,000 mark, but fatalities increased taking the state death toll across the 83,000 mark, health officials said on Tuesday.Compared with…

An Institute of National Importance under the Ministry of Science and Technology has developed a new RT-PCR kit with novel gene which targets facilitating detection of Covid-19 across various mutant strains.In a statement, the Ministry of…