At least 92 cases of the coronavirus and four deaths have been reported in India in the last 24 hours, an official of the Health Ministry said today. This takes the total number of COVID-19 cases in the country to 1071 and the number of deaths to 29.
Union Health Ministry on Saturday said that it has requested states and union territories to set up relief camps for migrant workers who are stranded in their region. The ministry added that the arrangement of food and water has been requested as well.
The Union Home Ministry on Thursday issued Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) on availability of essential goods during the lockdown period and asked state governments to ensure smooth functioning of people involved and services.
Kerala has reported the highest number of COVID-19 cases so far at 95, including eight foreign nationals, followed by Maharashtra which recorded 89, including three foreigners, according to the ministry data. Karnataka has reported 37 cases of coronavirus patients, while cases in Telangana rose to 35 including 10 foreigners.
Union Health Ministry briefed mediapersons on the latest development over the COVID-19.
Novel coronavirus cases in India rose to 315 Saturday after more than 60 fresh cases were reported in various parts of the country, the Union Health Ministry said.
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Coronavirus outbreak: Class teachers have been asked to remain alert of any possible signs and symptoms among students like coughing, fever or difficulty in breathing and immediately inform the parents to get them tested.
All 645 Indians who were evacuated from China's Wuhan have tested negative for novel coronavirus, the Health Ministry said on Thursday. The evacuees had been kept in isolation at Army Base and ITBP camps. India has so far reported three confirmed cases of nCoV from Kerala.
The Centre via video conferencing with state officials took stock of the situation amid the Coronavirus scare in the country following its outbreak of the epidemic in China that has so far claimed 80 lives.
A special help desk has been put up at BIAL airport in Bengaluru to assist passengers for queries related to the deadly epidemic which has so far claimed over 80 lives in China. Till 21st January, a total of 2,572 people have been screened to detect Coronavirus and all have been found negative.
India has amped up its efforts to prevent entry of Coronavirus into India.
In a huge step towards boosting the availability of human resources for the health sector, the ministry in 2019 initiated the process of converting 75 district hospitals into medical colleges by 2021-22 in under-served districts of the country that do not have any medical colleges.
Ahead of the first meeting of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Health and Family Welfare on Friday, an umbrella body of traders promoting electronic cigarettes and similar devices, shared with it a counter to the health ministry's key arguments to ban alternative smoking devices.
The digital platform, 'e-DantSeva', contains information about the National Oral Health Programme, a detailed list of all the dental facility and colleges, Information, Education and Communication (IEC) material and a unique feature called the 'Symptom Checker'.
7th Pay Commission: While Central government employees are still waiting for the announcement for their Dearness Allowance (DA) hike--awaited, there's good news for this government employees will receive allowance with arrears of about 26 months.
Replying to queries raised by Congress MLA Mohan Lal Brakta and BJP's Vinod Kumar during Question Hour, the Health Minister informed the Assembly that the posts of 319 doctors and 1106 staff nurses are lying vacant in the state.
After the ministry's direction, the two hospital administrations have issued memorandums to their resident doctors to resume work at their respective departments.
Clinical Establishment (Registration and Regulation) Act, 2010, makes registration a must for running a clinical establishment. "At present, minimum standards are available only for medical diagnostic labs which were notified on May 21, 2018. The proposed amendments are aimed at bringing uniformity in the standard of healthcare services provided by several establishments," an official source said.
The Union Health Ministry has formed a 10-member committee to examine the "pros and cons" of bringing central legislation against the assault on doctors on duty and violence in clinical establishments.
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