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Coronavirus | India conducts the highest number of daily tests Updated: Updated: 14.95 lakh samples studied; 2.10 lakh fresh cases and 1,070 deaths reported. Share Article AAA A health worker collects swab sample form a woman at a testing centre in Bhubaneswar. File   | Photo Credit: Biswaranjan Rout 14.95 lakh samples studied; 2.10 lakh fresh cases and 1,070 deaths reported. As many as 14,95,397 samples were tested in India on Friday (results of which were made available on Saturday), the h...

The Sahus from Ganjam lost four bread winners to COVID in 2020. As a second wave of COVID sweeps through the country, a family in remote Angargaon in Odisha is haunted by the tragedy that the virus visited on them last year. The Sahu family in Ganjam district had little notice of the disease that was to wipe out an entire generation — four brothers who fell victim to the coronavirus, three within days of each other. In the months that followed the women forged bonds to help each other throug...

Updated: April 16, 2021 21:53 IST The team reviewed published research and identified 10 lines of evidence to support the predominance of the airborne route. Share Article AAA A health worker talking to people about coronavirus RT-PCR testing in New Delhi. File   | Photo Credit: Shiv Kumar Pushpakar The team reviewed published research and identified 10 lines of evidence to support the predominance of the airborne route. There is consistent, strong evidence to prove that the SARS-CoV-2 virus,...

A COVID-19 isolation centre, in Surat on April 16, 2021.   | Photo Credit: PTI Concealment will lead to panic among public, says division bench of Chief Justice Vikram Nath and Justice Bhargav Karia. A day after raising doubts about the actual number of COVID-19 cases and the numbers given by the State government during its hearing on the suo motu petition initiated by it, the Gujarat High Court on Friday asked the State to publish actual data on RT-PCR tests and people found positive for COV...

Coronavirus | PM Modi calls for increasing production of medical grade oxygen Updated: Updated: April 16, 2021 15:42 IST The PMO said that an overview of district-level situation in these States was presented to the Prime Minister. Share Article Prime Minister Narendra Modi. File   | Photo Credit: PTI The PMO said that an overview of district-level situation in these States was presented to the Prime Minister. Amid a steep rise in coronavirus cases, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday unde...

Updated: Home Secretary asks States not to restrict movement of medical oxygen Share Article AAA A paramedical staff checks the oxygen level of a person in New Delhi. Photo used for representation purpose only.   | Photo Credit: R.V. Moorthy Home Secretary asks States not to restrict movement of medical oxygen Union Health Secretary Rajesh Bhushan has informed Uttar Pradesh and Chhattisgarh that their demand for 10 litre and 45 litre jumbo oxygen cylinders and additional ventilators having ...

Home Secretary asks States not to restrict movement of medical oxygen

To work with State, district authorities to provide treatment. The Union Health Ministry has advised Central ministries and their PSUs to dedicate their hospital beds for COVID-19 management in States/ UTs and to ensure that details of such dedicated hospitals/blocks be provided to the public. In a release issued on Friday the Ministry said, “To substantially augment the hospital infrastructure for effective clinical management of severe COVID-19 patients across the country, the Health Minist...

Maharashtra leads with 63,729 infections, followed by U.P. and Delhi

Coronavirus | Former Union Law Minister writes to CJI on worsening pandemic Updated: Updated: April 16, 2021 21:49 IST Calling for curbs on ‘super spreader’ gatherings, Ashwani Kumar said, ‘The right to life stands at the pinnacle in the hierarchy of constitutional rights’ Share Article Congress leader and former Union Law Minister Ashwani Kumar. File   | Photo Credit: Sandeep Saxena Calling for curbs on ‘super spreader’ gatherings, Ashwani Kumar said, ‘The right to life stand...