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Japan plans to approve its first coronavirus antigen testing kits on Wednesday. (AFP Photo)

Japan to approve its first coronavirus antigen test kits

Antigen tests scan for proteins that can be found on or inside a virus

12 May 2020 8:12 AM

The draft New Drugs and Clinical Trials (Amendment) Rules stipulate manufacture and import of unapproved drugs based on a prescription by a hospital. (AP Photo)

Health ministry drafts rules to help coronavirus patients access new...

The draft New Drugs and Clinical Trials (Amendment) Rules stipulate manufacture of unapproved drugs based on a...

8 Jun 2020 7:07 AM

Indias death toll from the coronavirus hit 50,000 on Monday. (PTI Photo)

India's COVID-19 death toll crosses 50,000-mark

Many experts say the real numbers may be far higher due to low levels of testing and because deaths are often not...

17 Aug 2020 5:42 AM

Centre has written to all states and Union Territories stating that smartphones and tablet devices should be allowed for hospitalised COVID-19 patients. (Representative Image)

Centre asks states, UTs to allow COVID patients to use smartphones in...

Appropriate protocols for disinfecting devices and allotting time slots can be developed by the hospital, Dr Rajiv Garg...

3 Aug 2020 5:34 AM

PM Modi was speaking at the release of the eighth installment of financial benefits under the PM-Kisan scheme via video conferencing. (Photo: PTI)

COVID-19 spreading to rural India: PM Modi

The Centre, he said, was working on a war footing to check the second wave of infections

15 May 2021 3:03 AM

The major worry with the new UK variant is that it is 70 percent more transmissible than the existing strains.

Using term 'Indian variant' for B.1.617 strain has no basis: Health...

The WHO also said it does not identify viruses or variants with names of countries they are first reported from

12 May 2021 4:37 PM

A beneficiary receives a dose of Covid-19 vaccine at a vaccination centre in Jammu. (Photo: PTI)

India reports 40 cases of Covid Delta Plus variant, most cases from...

These 40 cases were reported mostly from four major states - Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh, Kerala, and Tamil Nadu

23 Jun 2021 6:29 AM

The guidelines have mentioned the use of Remedesivir. (Photo: PTI/File)

Health Ministry issues guidelines for rational use of medicines, tests...

The guidelines have stressed the use of wearing masks, physical distancing and hand hygiene

7 Jun 2021 9:36 AM

People get inoculated with the dose of the Covaxin Covid-19 coronavirus vaccine at a temporary vaccination camp inside a school in Mumbai. (Indranil MUKHERJEE / AFP)

'Number of people who got at least one dose of COVID jab in India...

Presently, about 60.7 per cent of the adult population in the country has received at least one dose of COVID-19...

15 Sept 2021 5:18 AM

Health workers inoculate beneficiaries against Covid-19, at a vaccination centre of Nair hospital in Mumbai, Monday, August 23, 2021. (PTI)

India worried about complacency over second dose of COVID-19 vaccine -...

India has administered more than 744 million vaccine doses, with 60% of its adults getting a first shot and 19% fully...

14 Sept 2021 5:34 AM

Dr. Guyauma Ngoyi Mwamba, centre, representative of the Democratic Republic of Congo on Expanded Program on Immunization, is administered with a vaccine during a vaccination campaign in Mbandaka, Congo Monday, May 21, 2018. Congos health minister says a nurse has died from Ebola in Bikoro, the rural northwestern town where the outbreak began, as the country begins a vaccination campaign. (Photo: AP)

WHO's Congo Ebola plan assumes 100-300 cases over three months

The plan also sets out targets for the disease response, including that 100 percent of new cases should come from known...

30 May 2018 3:52 AM

The breakthrough is another major step towards developing a commercially viable drug version. (Photo: Pixabay)

Saridon, 327 other combination drugs banned to avoid health risk

The ban follows recommendation of DTAB which said in a report that taking the 328 FDCs would be a health risk.

13 Sept 2018 9:31 AM