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Union health and family welfare minister Mansukh Mandaviya.NEW DELHI: Serum Institute of India (SII) CEO Adar Poonawalla met Health minister Mansukh Mandaviya on Tuesday to discuss the developments regarding research at SII to develop a…

The Central government has constituted a task force in the wake of Monkeypox cases in India to monitor and provide guidance on the expansion of diagnostic facilities and to explore vaccination for the infection in the country. This came…

A 35-year-old Nigerian man, living in Delhi and having no recent history of foreign travel, has tested positive for monkeypox, taking the total number of infected people in the country to six, official sources said on Monday. He is the…

Samples of a 22-year-old man, who died in Kerala on July 30, came out positive for monkeypox on Monday, reported PTI citing the official sources. The man had returned to India on July 21 from UAE and was admitted to a hospital on July 27…

Nine out of ten samples of suspected monkeypox infection sent to the National Institute of Virology (NIV) here have tested negative for the viral disease, a senior health official said on Thursday. The result of one patient was yet to…

NEW DELHI: The Centre on Wednesday invited Expression of Interest (EOI) for developing vaccines against Monkeypox. The EOI documents states that Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) is willing to make available Monkeypox Virus…

RANCHI/GARHWA: The Jharkhand government has asked health officials to remain on alert and arrange isolation beds in all the district hospitals after a seven-year-old girl was detected with symptoms of monkeypoxin Garhwa, an official…

NEW DELHI: A day after the World Health Organization (WHO) declared the Monkeypox outbreak a global health emergency, the Union health ministry's Director General of Health Services (DGHS) on Sunday has called for a high-level meeting on…

In the wake of two confirmed cases of monkeypox in the country being reported from Kerala, the state government on Wednesday issued standard operating procedures (SOP) for isolation, sample collection and treatment of those infected or…

NEW DELHI: A booster dose of Covaxin broadens its efficacy against the Delta variant of SARS-CoV-2 virus and even protects against Omicron variants — BA.1.1 and BA.2— a new study conducted on hamsters by Pune’s National Institute of…