Over 21 students fell ill and seven other students were hospitalised after allegedly drinking contaminated water at Government Engineering College in Uttar Pradesh's Mainpuri, a health official said on Friday.
As many as 68 people who consumed food from a hotel at Paravur in the Ernakulam district of Kerala sought treatment after suffering from diarrhoea and vomiting.
The phone call came on the same day as China announced that nearly 60,000 Covid-19 deaths were reported since the country lifted its strict "Zero Covid Policy" on December 7, last year, state media outlet Global Times reported.
A top European health official on Thursday welcomed the bloc's agreement on a coordinated response to the Covid-19 situation in China and called on Beijing to provide transparent data on its epidemiological situation.
Tamil Nadu Chief Minister MK Stalin is holding a meeting with State Health Minister Ma Subramanian, Health Secretary and health officials at the secretariat regarding Covid protocols and preventive measures to be taken.
On Monday, China's top health official said that country is facing the 'most complicated and severest anti-epidemic situation' since the emergence of coronavirus.
Sources with the Union Health Ministry confirmed the development and said that a decision on the same was taken after a high-level meeting held in Union Health Ministry with senior health officials on Thursday. "The notification regarding the National Exit test (NExT) is expected soon," they
A 27-year-old pharmacist drowned as a boat in which he was travelling overturned in Indravati river on the border of Bijapur and Dantewada district. The team of Bijapur health workers was returning after a health camp organised in the Kosalnar locality.
The CM directed nodal officers to make field visits and ensure time-bound implementation of measures to contain the spread of the vector-borne disease.