'The lockdown was for both: To flatten the curve or more correctly, delay the rapid spread of COVID outbreak, and to create healthcare infrastructure.' Photograph: Yawar Nazir/Getty Images ......
India is in a much better position than other countries in the fight against COVID-19 as a result of "right decisions taken at the right time", Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Monday,......
The West Bengal government has alleged that the COVID-19 testing kits supplied by the National Institute of Cholera and Enteric Diseases, Indian Council of Medical Research's nodal agency in the......
In the wake of 73 confirmed cases of coronavirus in India so far, the Union health ministry has made functional 52 laboratories for testing samples while 57 labs have been designated for helping in......
Swine flu has claimed the lives of 47 more people in the country as the death toll rose to 1,674 while the number of persons affected by the H1N1 virus exceeded 29,000. The Union health ministry on......
The newly-introduced ECOSAN toilets in the remote islands of Sundarbans are not only providing a hygienic sanitary option to villagers, most of whom used to defecate in the open, but are also......