Coronavirus

Chandigarh, December 22 After a gap of 13 days, the city recorded one Covid positive case today. The new case has come a day after the UT Administration asked all hospitals to step up the RT-PCR testing of patients....

Sunit Dhawan Rohtak, December 22 Covid sampling facility in the waiting area of the Trauma Centre in Rohtak-PGIMS has not been operating for nearly a month. Also, there have been no written orders regarding the closing of the facility. No...

New Delhi, December 22 Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday said Covid was not yet over and directed heightened surveillance, especially at international airports, for the timely detection of transmissible virus variants, if any. Mask up, Speaker advises MPs...

Chandigarh, December 22 To rule out the presence of the latest Covid variant, the Health Department has asked all Civil Surgeons to conduct the genome sequencing of each and every positive sample. Director, Health Services, Dr Ranjit Singh Ghotra...

New Delhi, December 22 The Indian Medical Association on Thursday advised citizens to avoid public gatherings such as marriages, political or social meetings as well as international travel amid a rise in Covid cases in some countries. In an advisory,...

New Delhi, December 22 Union health secretary Rajesh Bhushan on Thursday wrote to his counterpart in the civil aviation ministry on the protocol to be followed for random testing of 2 per cent of the total passengers who arrive...

New Delhi, December 21 Random sample testing for coronavirus will be conducted at airports for international passengers arriving from China and other countries in view of the recent surge in cases in some parts of the world, official sources said...

IANS New Delhi, December 21 As India gears up to fight a potential resurgence of the Covid virus in the country, the BF.7 Omicron sub-variant once again hogged the headlines as it is currently on the move in countries like...

New Delhi, December 21 Three cases of Omicron subvariant BF.7, apparently the strain driving China’s current surge of covid cases, have been detected in India so far, official sources said on Wednesday. The first case of BF.7 in India was...

London, December 21 Smell loss is one of the most prevalent symptoms of long Covid, according to a new study. According to the research, it reveals that almost a third of long Covid patients suffer persistent smell loss, with almost...

Beijing/Singapore, Dec 20 Cities across China scrambled to install hospital beds and build fever screening clinics on Tuesday as the authorities reported five more deaths and international concern grew about Beijing’s surprise decision to let the virus run free. US...

New Delhi, December 21 The meeting by Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya to review India’s covid-19 situation began here on Wednesday. Pandemic persists India is witnessing 1,200 cases, while 35 lakh cases are being recorded the world over on a weekly...

Naina Mishra Chandigarh, December 20 A study published in Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on Covid-associated mucormycosis (CAM) from 25 hospitals in India, including the PGI here, has found that glucocorticoid use and zinc supplementation in the treatment...

Shimla, December 19 Even as Chief Minister Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu has tested positive for Covid-19, the health department says there is no need to worry as the situation was totally under control. “The positivity rate at the moment is...

ANI Beijing, December 20 After the easing of Covid-19 restrictions, China is experiencing a massive surge in coronavirus cases. Hospitals are completely overwhelmed in China, reported Eric Feigl-Ding, an epidemiologist and health economist. The epidemiologist estimates that more than 60...

Shimla, December 19 Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu today tested positive for Covid ahead of his scheduled meeting with Prime Minister Narendra Modi, resulting in postponement of all his programmes as well as the Vidhan Sabha session....

Beijing, December 18 Streets in major Chinese cities were eerily quiet on Sunday as people stayed home to protect themselves from a surge in Covid-19 cases that has hit urban centres from north to south. China is currently in...

Chicago, December 16 China’s abrupt lifting of stringent COVID-19 restrictions could result in an explosion of cases and over a million deaths through 2023, according to new projections from the US-based Institute of Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME). According to...

Beijing, December 7 After widespread protests, China on Wednesday rolled back major Covid restrictions, moving a step closer to scrapping its dreaded zero-Covid policy. The new measures limit the lockdown to individual apartment floors and buildings, rather than entire districts...

Ludhiana, December 3 According to the office of the Civil Surgeon, Ludhiana, none tested positive for Covid in the district on Saturday. Civil Surgeon Hitinder Kaur said 1,13,626 persons have tested positive and 3,018 patients have lost their lives to...

Washington, December 2 A new study suggested that pandemic-related stressors have physically aged brains of adolescents, according to a study. The new findings indicate that the neurological and mental health effects of the pandemic on adolescents may have been even...

Beijing, November 29 Chinese authorities have begun inquiries into some of the people who gathered at weekend protests against Covid-19 curbs, people who were at the Beijing demonstrations told the media, as police remained out in numbers on the city’s...

New Delhi, November 29 Noting that there’s no legal compulsion to get vaccinated, the Centre on Tuesday told the Supreme Court that governments can’t be held liable to compensate for deaths due to side-effects of Covid vaccination as vaccines were...

Beijing, November 29 China on Tuesday said it will take steps to “minimise” the impact of its draconian coronavirus lockdowns, amidst the unprecedented public protests against President Xi Jinping’s stringent zero-Covid policy that evoked strong support from the UN, the...

New Delhi, November 29 India logged 215 new coronavirus infections, the lowest since April 2020, taking the total tally of covid cases to 4,46,72,068, according to the Union Health Ministry data updated on Tuesday. The active cases further declined to...