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The government had earlier decided that it would implement the revised MHA guidelines with effect from Thursday across the state.

CSIR DG, Dr Shekhar C Mande, said the synthesis process of Favipiravir has been completed and the Drug Controller General of India will now take a call on introducing it for testing as Covid-19 treatment.

As many as 70 areas in Palghar district of Maharashtra have been notified as containment zones in view of several coronavirus cases detected there.

"Periods don't stop for pandemics," says 12-year-old Shweta Kumari who is short of sanitary napkins because the distribution from her school has either stopped or delayed due to the ongoing lockdown to combat coronavirus.

Yediyurappa had on Tuesday directed the health department to conduct a health check-up of all journalists in this tech city to ensure they are not affected by the virus while covering its developments.

The nationwide lockdown in India which started about a month ago has impacted nearly 40 million internal migrants, the World Bank has said.

Eighteen COVID-19 patients died on Wednesday, taking the COVID-19 death toll in the state to 269, the officials said.

The two countries will work together to further strengthen our partnership in health, science and technology, to jointly address challenges of the post-COVID world.

Indore was crowned the cleanest city of the country a third time last year and has an efficient garbage collection system in which municipal vehicles pick up the waste from doorsteps. The civic body is now using these well-charted routes to survey and scr...

Right from the first days of testing, Kerala has insisted on a 28 day quarantine period and recent positive cases show that proceeding with caution was right.

There has been a significant number of incidents of violence on the health workers across the country, following which the doctors had called for a nationwide black day.

Addressing a press conference through video conferencing, Chhattisgarh Health Minister TS Singh Deo said he favoured bringing the Doctors' Protection Bill in view of repeated attacks on doctors across the country.

He also said the students brought from Rajasthan's Kota should be told to stay quarantined in their homes through the CM helpline 1076.

The Supreme Court on Wednesday dismissed a plea of Christian Michel James, an alleged middleman arrested in connection with the AgustaWestland VVIP chopper scam cases, seeking interim bail on the grounds of risk of contracting coronavirus in Tihar jail.

In India, cases have risen to 19,984, while the death toll stands at 640, according to the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare's latest update.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi called for working towards a cleaner, healthier and a more prosperous planet on the occasion of Earth Day.