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Centre says no case of COVID-19 Delta Plus variant in Tripura
Updated : 4 years, 8 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], July 11 (ANI): No case of Delta Plus variant of COVID-19 has been reported from sample sequencing in Tripura, said the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare on Sunday.
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Kerala denies fudging of Covid death data
Updated : 4 years, 8 months ago IST
Thiruvananthapuram (Kerala) [India], July 10 (ANI): Kerala health minister Veena George on Saturday categorically denied fudging in COVID death data after the first wave of coronavirus struck the state.
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Kerala reports first positive case of Zika virus, 13 suspected cases
Updated : 4 years, 8 months ago IST
Thiruvananthapuram (Kerala) [India], July 9 (ANI): Kerala Minister for Health and Family Welfare, Veena George on Thursday said the first case of Zika virus has been reported in the state and the samples have been sent to the National Institute of Virology (NIV) in Pune for final confirmatio
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India achieves milestone of 40 cr COVID-19 sample testing
Updated : 4 years, 8 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], June 26 (ANI): With average testing of more than 18 lakh COVID samples per day in June, India has tested over 40 crore samples across the country till Friday, informed the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR).
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Need to monitor any vaccine-escaping COVID-19 variants, says ICMR study in
Updated : 4 years, 8 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], June 24 (ANI): The result of a preliminary study conducted by the Indian Council for Medical Research (ICMR) scientists on 274 samples of breakthrough infections in Odisha has highlighted the need to monitor the emergence of any vaccine-escaping variants.
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Indonesia detects 211 more contagious variants of concern
Updated : 4 years, 8 months ago IST
Jakarta [Indonesia], June 23 (ANI/Xinhua): As many as 211 or 9.41 per cent of the total 2,242 samples of COVID-19 cases tested with the whole genome sequencing method in Indonesia are more contagious variants of concern, the Health Ministry said on Wednesday.
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Janani launches India's first at-home semen sample collection
Updated : 4 years, 8 months ago IST
Bengaluru (Karnataka) [India], June 23 (ANI/NewsVoir): Janani, an end-to-end reproductive health and sexual wellness solutions platform, has launched a first-of-its-kind at-home advanced DIY semen testing kits.
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Global Etiquette Olympiad launches Etiquette Studies to empower children b
Updated : 4 years, 8 months ago IST
Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], June 22 (ANI/Heylin Spark): The Global Etiquette Olympiad (GEO) is an initiative started by the International Centre for Etiquette Research to inculcate good etiquette from a tender age.
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Four lions at Chennai's Arignar Anna Zoological Park found infected with d
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
Chennai (Tamil Nadu) [India], June 19 (ANI): The Genome sequencing analysis of four samples taken from lions at the Arignar Anna Zoological Park in Vandalur revealed that they were all affected by the delta (B.1.617.2) variant of COVID-19.
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WHO-AIIMS seroprevalence survey outcome 'positive'; larger nationwide samp
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], June 18(ANI): AIIMS Delhi Director Dr Randeep Guleria on Friday said that the outcome of the joint survey by the World Health Organization-AIIMS, which found out that COVID-19 seroprevalence was 55.7 per cent and 63.5 per cent in the age group below 18 and above respect
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Delhi: Fire at 9th floor of AIIMS brought under control, no casualty repor
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], June 17 (ANI): The fire that broke out here at the ninth floor of the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) hospital has been brought under control and no casualties have been reported yet, said the Fire Department on Thursday.
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Saliva can be more effective than nasopharyngeal swabs for COVID-19 testin
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
Washington [US], June 14 (ANI): According to a new study, the addition of a simple processing step to saliva samples before testing may improve the COVID-19 detection rate, eliminate the challenges of nasopharyngeal testing, and facilitate mass surveillance.
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