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The Union Health Ministry has appealed to all the states and Union Territories (UTs) to declare mucormycosis or black fungus as a notifiable disease under the Epidemic Disease Act 1897.The Ministry has also advised that all government and…

Technicians of the Army's Chinar Corps in Srinagar have assisted in the repair of an oxygen generation plant at Rangreth, officials said on Thursday.The Army said the oxygen plant of Enn Dee Gases located at Rangreth with a capacity of…

 Health-tech startup Qure.ai on Thursday collaborated with the international NGO PATH to accelerate and intensify Covid-19 screening by making advanced Artificial Intelligence-based diagnostic technology available to physicians across India…

After recording over 4,000 deaths in the last four days, India on Thursday witnessed a decline in number of fatalities due to Covid-19. The country reported 3,874 deaths due to the virus infection, according to the Union Health and Family…

The Delhi government has decided to set up a special task force to protect children from a possible third wave of Covid-19. A meeting chaired by Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal in this regard was held at the Delhi Secretariat on…

Shoolini University in Himachal Pradesh on Wednesday announced an initiative with a target of funding relief of Rs 1 crore for Covid patients in coordination with the state Health Department.The relief includes provisions for about 100…

Telangana Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao on Wednesday visited government-run Gandhi Hospital here and interacted with Covid-19 patients undergoing treatment there.During his first visit to any Covid facility since the pandemic broke…

An international team of scientists, from Australia and the US, has developed an experimental direct-acting antiviral therapy that can reduce viral load by 99.9 per cent and may be a new treatment against Covid-19.Traditional antivirals,…

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…