COVID19

Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, a prominent physician and health economist, has recently garnered attention with his appointment as the Director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) under the Trump administration.

NEW DELHI: Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal has appealed to the people to get their booster dose as soon as possible if they have completed their six months of the time period of administering the second dose. He also informed that the booster or precautionary dose is being given free of cost by the government. […]

NEW DELHI: Comorbid Women were relatively at a higher risk of mortality as compared to males having the same comorbid conditions, finds a study at Sir Ganga Ram Hospital. A total of 2586 COVID patients, who were admitted to the hospital from April 8, 2020, to October 4, 2020 (first Phase), were studied to observe […]

NEW DELHI: While Union health minister Dr Mansukh Mandaviya directed officials to focus on surveillance and Genome Sequencing and to monitor hospitalisation amid rising cases of COVID-19 in the country, health experts feel that the actual numbers may be much more as people are self-doctoring. Dr Mandaviya held a high-level review meeting following an escalation […]

NEW DELHI:  The first case of Omicron variant of COVID19 in Delhi and seven infections in Maharashtra on Sunday triggered a warning bell across India, taking the latest tally of the new strain to be at least 21 in the country. Seven cases of Omicron variant in Maharashtra include six in Pimpri-Chinchwad Municipal area and […]