While extending vaccination for all above 45 years of age, the health ministry had said that this age group accounted for 88 per cent of Covid-19 deaths in the country
Ordinance is designed to ensure quicker, cost-effective and value maximising outcomes for all stakeholders in a manner that least disrupts their businesses and preserves jobs too
Its seven-day rolling average number of daily cases has risen 39.6 per cent over the last week
Modi: Central teams to be sent to Punjab, Maharashtra, Chhattisgarh; follow 5-pronged strategy to fight pandemic
To push the vaccination drive, the government decided that both public and private sector centres would vaccinate on all days in April, including gazetted holidays
Civic corporations in Maharashtra are ramping up hospital beds even as health minister Rajesh Tope said there was no bed shortage
Health ministry asks 47 districts across country to increase RT-PCR testing for faster identification of affected cases and effective tracking and tracing
CCI said that with no fear of erosion of its userbase, Facebook-owned WhatsApp was in a position to compromise quality in terms of protection of individualised data
The health ministry has asked states like Punjab to ramp up vaccination facilities
The double mutant strain is a combination of two variants - E484Q and L452R - both of which have been present in India for the past few months separately
Maharashtra recently recorded its highest single-day increase in fresh cases
So far, only those above 45 who had certain co-morbidities were allowed to take the vaccine after producing a letter from a registered doctor
The CIRP, which was suspended in light of the Covid-related stress, covers a one-year period ending March 24, 2021
Protection enhanced if the second dose of Covishield is administered between 6-8 weeks, says Health Ministry
India recorded the highest single-day spike since late November of over 43,000 Covid cases on Sunday
Till now, there was no provision in the Companies Act that allowed a remuneration for the non-executive director if the company was in loss or had inadequate profits
The centre will issue warning if it detects suspicious practices
Its shares were locked in the 5 per cent lower circuit on the BSE on Thursday at Rs 80.20 following reports of the probe
Going forward, people would be allowed to book slots online depending upon capacity of hospitals
In the age group of 45-60 years of age around 18,850 got the first dose and more than 128,000 beneficiaries over 60 years of age got the shot on Monday