Ensure availability of oxygen, functional ventilators: Centre to states

With some countries witnessing a surge in Covid cases, the Centre on Saturday urged states and union territories to ensure the availability of Liquid Medical Oxygen, adequate inventory of cylinders......

9.99 lakh healthcare workers got Covid jab till Thursday: Centre

The number of healthcare workers who have received COVID-19 vaccine jabs in the country till the evening of the sixth day of the nationwide immunisation drive has reached 9,99,065 as per......

Centre asks states to start vaccinating frontline workers

The Union health ministry on Friday asked all states and union territories to initiate vaccination of frontline workers against COVID-19 from the first week of February.   IMAGE: A medic......

Mask mandate to continue in India amid new variant threat

Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya on Tuesday reviewed the Covid situation amid detection of cases of a new sub-variant of Omicron from parts of the country.   The meeting concluded that......