States Are Using More Antigen Testing. Here's What This Means
Delhi: India has begun to use the technology of antigen testing for COVID-19. This is faster and cheaper, than the “gold ...
Latest Surveillance Testing Guidance To Prioritise Health Staff, Prisoners
The Indian government has updated its testing strategy for COVID-19 and included a section on testing for...
Study That Claimed HCQ Was Harmful To COVID-19 Patients Retracted
The authors of a study that had claimed the drug hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) had shown harmful effects and no benefits...
UN urges member states to close compulsory drug detention & rehab centres amid COVID-19 threat
A joint statement from various United Nations entities has called upon member states to “permanently close compulsory...
Govt says lockdown averted 78,000 deaths, but cases have surged in 5 states since lifting of curbs
After drawing flak for an earlier modelling estimate that showed India’s new cases would plummet to zero by May 16,...
In a UP village, Muslims find no work
Ibrahim Baba, a 50-year-old Muslim man in Kanpur’s Shiv Ganj village, says he is unable to get work because a...
More than half of India’s districts have at least one COVID-19 case
As many as 408 of India’s 736 districts, spread out in 32 states and union territories, have now reported at least one...
47 districts in 23 states have not reported a new case in 14 days
No new cases were reported in 47 districts across 23 states in the last 14 days, the health ministry said today. Mahe in ...