Thousands of Covid-19 affected patients face severe damage as they have symptoms of the deadly virus but are testing Covid-19 negative for the RT-PCR tests conducted but have subsequently shown Covid-19 lung manifestations when subjected to CT-scans. Dr C N Manjunath, a committee member from Covid task Force stated that improperly collected swabs, premature testing,…
With the developed allies in West Asia and South-East Asia, the Indian Navy is anticipated to collect nearly 600 Metric tonnes (MT) of liquid medical oxygen from Qatar, 400 MTs from the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and 1000 MTs from Kuwait in the upcoming 30 days. From May 12, landing ship tank (LST) INS Shardul…
A plea has been lodged in the Supreme Court which wants to urge the Centre to Union Government, Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) along with the Council of Indian School Certificate Examination (CISCE) to take the call of cancelling the CBSE and ICSE examinations for class XII. With a letter issued on April 14,…
Karnataka government will conduct random scheduled reality checks at the hospitals based in Bengaluru to review the admission of the affected and discharge of the recovered Covid-19 patients, as per the statement by Forest Minister Arvind Limbavali, who has also taken charge as the nodal minister for Covid War Rooms and Helplines. The minister said…
The Karnataka High issued an order on Wednesday for the state government to assure that the investigating team working on the probe of the hospital bed scam should also involve cyber experts. A division bench led by Chief Justice ABhay Shreeniwas Oka was hearing the matters which are associated to Covid-19 pandemic. The bench scrutinized…
With the worsening situation of the ongoing second wave in the country, Italy had sent a consignment having 30 oxygen concentrators and two ventilators which arrived in India on Thursday as a part of the medical assistance initiated by Italy for India.’ Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) spokesperson Arindam Bagchi thanked Italy for the support…
The Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MoHFW) declared on Thursday that Russian vaccine developed by Russia’s Gamaleya National Center, Sputnik V, to combat the Covid-19 pandemic will be launched in the Indian market early next week. The announcement was made amid a press briefing of the health ministry over Covid-19, by Dr VK…
India on Thursday evening received a consignment of 10,000 rapid testing kits from the Republic of Korea with the extended cooperation amid both the countries, revealed the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) spokesperson Arindam Bagchi. Bagchi tweeted, “Our continuing cooperation with the Republic of Korea. Welcome the shipment of 10000 rapid testing kits from the…
Prime Minister Narendra Modi will be conducting two meetings with the District Magistrates (DMs) of several districts across 19 states of the country having a high caseload for assessing the present situation of Covid-19 and several measures were taken to deal with it, revealed the official sources on Thursday. According to the information given by…
Bengaluru based Indian Institute of Science (IISC) is presently working on developing a novel vaccine against Covid-19 which could be stored at room temperature, and will therefore be a major invention for the healthcare infrastructure of the country amid the rising cases of Covid-19 in the ongoing second wave. The information was revealed by Health…
