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Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Wednesday said nearly 60 per cent of all the vaccines used in the world are produced in India and over the decades, the country has made remarkable contribution to vaccinating the world. India today…

Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya NEW DELHI: With just 17 per cent of eligible people receiving the precaution dose of Covid-19 vaccines till August 15, Union health minister Mansukh Mandaviyaappealed to states on Tuesday to…

Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya appealed to states and Union territories on Tuesday for timely utilisation of central funds to strengthen the healthcare infrastructure and expedite the implementation of people-centric health…

NEW DELHI: India on Monday reported 14,917 new Covid cases and 32 deaths. The death toll has now reached 5,27,069. The country's active caseload currently stands at 1,17,508. This comes to 0.27 per cent of the total cases. With 14,238…

The African Swine Fever (ASF) has now spread to wild animals in Mizoram and it appears that inoculation is the only option left to contain the outbreak of the killer pig disease, a senior official said on Saturday. The state government…

The World Health Organization has declared the global Monkeypox outbreak a 'public health emergency of international concern'. This is one step below the pandemic. Teena looks at the virus in depth What is Monkeypox? Monkeypox is a…

Delhi on Monday logged 463 fresh coronavirus cases and two fatalities due to the disease as the positivity rate climbed to 8.18 per cent, highest in over a month, according to city health department data. This is the third consecutive…

NEW DELHI: India on Tuesday reported 11,793 fresh Covid cases and 27 deaths. With this rise, the death toll in the country due to the disease has reached 525047. The active Covid case number is currently at 96,700 and is 0.22% of the…

When monkeypox briefly found its way into the US in 2003, it infected prairie dogs. “We know that ground squirrels are highly susceptible to the virus and that there is a wide host range of species,” says Rimoin. “If monkeypox were able…