New Delhi, May 27 (By Jyoti Singh): The Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology (CCMB) has established stable cultures of coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) from patients’ samples. Virologists at CCMB have isolated infectious viruses from several isolates….
New Delhi, May 02 (By isw ): The Indian Institute of Chemical Technology (CSIR-IICT) has taken up the challenge of making an affordable RT-PCR (reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction) kit indigenously. The Institute intends to…
New Delhi, May 01 (Umashankar Mishra ): Testing is the key component in the fight against COVID-19. It helps to monitor and restrict the spread of this coronavirus. This is the reason why there is…
New Delhi, May 01 (Umashankar Mishra ): COVID-19 testing centres were opened in two of Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) labs and with their training, 16 CSIR labs across the country are involved…
New Delhi, 30 April (By ISW ): The Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) has been leading the fight against COVID-19 epidemic on multiple fronts. Among those, the Council has laid a major emphasis…
The coronavirus threat has forced governments to impose a disruptive change in our life styles, which may seem very inconvenient and irritating to us in the present circumstances, but it may be worth considering to…
Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) Director calls for protection of health workers in face of the advancing COVID19 pandemic in the region of the Americas
New Delhi, 5 April (Jyoti Sharma / S.K. Varshney): COVID-19, also known as coronavirus, is making people all over the world go helter-skelter and clueless. As per ‘worldometer’, over one million people have already fallen…
WHO, UNICEF calls for countries to provide free public hand hygiene stations. Gaps in essential care can result in many more deaths than the coronavirus itself. Geneva 2 April 2020 : WHO, UNICEF and the…
New Delhi, 27 March (TV Venkateswaran): Many things about Novel Coronavirus are spreading rapidly through social media, WhatsApp and the Internet. Some of these could be true, but many of those informations are baseless. At…
New Delhi, 8th March 2020 : The first-ever of its kind, a cultural procession for health named ‘Namaste March’ was taken out in the vicinity of Laxmi Nagar in the national capital on Saturday to…
New Delhi, 06th February 2020. According to a document of WHO, At present, there is no evidence that vaccines against pneumonia protect you against the new coronavirus Vaccines against pneumonia, such as pneumococcal vaccine and…
New Delhi, 02nd February 2020. According to a document of WHO, At present, there is no evidence that companion animals/pets such as dogs or cats can be infected with the new coronavirus. However, it is…
#Breaking Coronavirus outbreak live updates : There are now 83 cases in 18 countries. Of these, only 7 had no history of travel in China Geneva, Switzerland 30 January 2020. The second meeting of the…
pl. Secretary, Health reviews the preparedness of States/UTs on Coronavirus through video conference New Delhi, 30th January 2020. Sanjeeva Kumar, Special Secretary (HFW) chaired a video conference (VC) with Health Secretaries of states with 21…
GENEVA 20 January 2020—- World Health Organization Director-General Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus will convene an Emergency Committee on the novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) under the International Health Regulations (IHR). The Committee will meet on Wednesday, 22…
