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Covid-19 a wake-up call, says Ratan Tata in outreach to slum dwellers

Tata said while slums are blamed as the cause of current problem, slum-dwellers are not being properly taken care of

Centre forms a high-level task force on coronavirus vaccine, drug testing

The task force would also form clinical cohorts, which would focus on long-term follow up of the disease and its management

Using telemedicine to get critical medical advice in times of the lockdown

All you need is a smart phone to start consulting health specialists over video call, phone call, whatsapp, and other applications. And it does not burn a hole in your pocket

Covid-19: Govt unlikely to exempt GST on masks, ventilators, and PPEs

GST exemption on such items would jeopardise the interest of the industry and would not result in any significant gains to consumer

Genes2Me to deliver 3 mn rapid test kits in coming weeks: CEO Neeraj Gupta

The first phase of our collaboration with Livzon revolves around bringing these kits to India and delivering them to the government within the shortest span of time, he said

States start imposing price caps on Covid-19 tests done by private labs

Industry feels it is time to discuss the cost of the tests with Indian Council of Medical Research so that quality isn't compromised

Govt lifts curbs on exports of formulations made from Paracetamol

The government on March 3 had put export restrictions on 26 pharma ingredients and medicines, including paracetamol

Covid-19: India receives 500,000 antibody testing kits from China

Government has received two types of kits from Guangzhou Wondfo and Zhuhai Livzon to see antibodies in Covid patients

Early lockdowns in India may flatten Covid-19 curve: Nimhans virologist

In a Q&A, V Ravi says at some later stage two-thirds of the population will have gotten Covid-19 but that stage many would have recovered without even knowing they had been infected

650,000 medical kits to fight Covid-19 dispatched from China: Indian envoy

Two major consignments of the medical kits were reported to have been sent to India from China earlier as part of the efforts to step up testing especially in hotspots during the ongoing lockdown in t

Experts say up to 15% Covid-19 patients may also suffer kidney damage

Continuous Renal Replacement Therapy (CRRT) a term used for a collection of acute dialysis techniques can support these patients for 24 hours in a day

Plea to nationalise healthcare sector during coronavirus 'misconceived': SC

A bench of Justices Ashok Bhushan and S Ravindra Bhat, which heard the matter through video-conference, said such a direction cannot be passed by the court

Coronavirus: J&K cases cross 200-mark with 23 fresh detections

There are 197 active cases at present in the union territory

IIT Kanpur develops low cost personal protection kit to fight Covid-19

These low-cost kits are made of non-porous material and even a small or medium scale factory can manufacture it

Lockdown should continue, prediction for coronavirus frightening: Punjab CM

Addressing a press conference through video conference, Singh said Punjab will allow district-wise relief from lockdown only to let farmers harvest Rabi crop

Health Ministry urges rational use of PPEs, says India has sufficient stock

Joint Secretary of Health Ministry also said that the Centre is augmenting the supply of PPE to states and that the states should use such gears rationally

ESIC reserves 2152 hospital beds for coronavirus patients' treatment

This constitutes for around 10 per cent of the total 21,931 hospital beds which ESIC had till March 2018 (latest publicly available data).

10 new coronavirus cases reported in Karnataka, tally climbs to 191

This includes 6 deaths and 28 discharges

Centre okays Rs 15,000 cr fully funded emergency health package for states

The project named 'India COVID-19 Emergency Response and Health System Preparedness Package' will be implemented in three phases

Plea in SC to nationalise health care facilities till Covid-19 is contained

The petition, filed by Delhi-based lawyer Amit Dwivedi claims that India does not have sufficient public healthcare infrastructure to combat the pandemic