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Indian Council of Medical Research has written to states asking them to renegotiate COVID19 testing prices with private laboratories
Indian Council of Medical Research has asked states to renegotiate price of the Novel Coronavirus Disease (COVID19) tests in light of...
India reports 6977 new COVID19 cases in a day; government says concerns about PPEs unfounded
India recorded a daily high in cases of Novel Coronavirus Disease (COVID19) cases yet again on Monday when 6977 taking the total to 138845. This...
Widespread blood clotting and new vessel growth differentiates lungs of Covid-19 from Influenza A (H1N1)
In a new study, senior author Steven J. Mentzer, MD, thoracic surgeon at Brigham and Women's Hospital, and a team of international researchers examined seven...
Health secretary Preeti Sudan reviews situation in 11 municipalities with 70% COVID19 cases
Health Secretary Preeti Sudan held a high level review meeting (through video conference) with the principal Health Secretaries, Urban Development Secretaries, Municipal Commissioners, Mission Directors (NHM) and other officials from...
Study in The Lancet find no benefit of hydroxychloroquine or chloroquine in COVID19, calls for urgent randomised control trials
A large observational study suggests that treatment with the antimalarial drug chloroquine or its analogue hydroxychloroquine (taken with or without the...
India has taken over as the chairman of the WHO executive board for three years; the election happened before COVID19
In less than an hour, Dr Harsh Vardhan, the health minister of India is all set to take over as...
An accompanying study suggests COVID-19 infection protects against re-exposure
New candidate DNA vaccines offer protection against SARS-CoV-2 in rhesus macaques and another companion study suggests COVID-19 infection protects against re-exposure. Both studies were published today in the journal Science.
The global...
India’s population is comparable to the top 15 countries with COVID19 cases but the former have 34 times more cases as compared to India and 83 times more deaths
Though number of Coronavirus Disease (COVID19) cases in India are rising,...
Past one lakh cases but deaths per lakh population is low in India, say ministry of health data
Even as the number of Novel Coronavirus Disease Cases (COVID19) in the country crossed a lakh on Tuesday, an analysis of the...
There were 4970 COVID19 cases and 134 deaths in the last 24 hours; total is now 101139
India races past the one lakh mark in Novel Coronavirus Disease (COVID19) cases with 4970 fresh cases taking the total to 101139 cases,...
