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  • How staying fit benefits your health as well as your health insurance premium April 28, 2023 09:12 AM IST

    How staying fit benefits your health as well as your health insurance premium

    According to IRDAI directions, health insurers give reward points to policyholders who engage in physical activity. These reward points can be used to pay their renewal premiums or for saving on prescription costs, diagnostic fees, outpatient visits, and so on.

  • India will see small waves of COVID-19 but situation is under control: Principal Scientific Advisor April 17, 2023 04:36 PM IST

    India will see small waves of COVID-19 but situation is under control: Principal Scientific Advisor

    About 9,111 COVID-19 cases and 27 deaths were reported in the last 24 hours, according to the Union Health Ministry data.

  • No clustering of COVID cases in India, hospitalisation due to XBB variant very low; says INSACOG chief April 06, 2023 02:31 PM IST

    No clustering of COVID cases in India, hospitalisation due to XBB variant very low; says INSACOG chief

    NK Arora, co-chair of India’s genomic surveillance programme, said the XBB variant and its sub-lineages were being detected from sewage samples, indicating its wide prevalence in the community.

  • XBB1.16 leading COVID case surge, no rise in hospitalisation, says health ministry April 03, 2023 04:29 PM IST

    XBB1.16 leading COVID case surge, no rise in hospitalisation, says health ministry

    In Maharashtra, the XBB 1.16 subvariant has been detected in 93 percent of COVID samples from Pune. The highly transmissible subvariant was also found in over 75 percent of COVID samples in Nagpur

  • COVID-19: Experts stress weeks ahead crucial as cases creep up in many states March 13, 2023 01:40 PM IST

    COVID-19: Experts stress weeks ahead crucial as cases creep up in many states

    In light of a rising trend in influenza-like illnesses and severe acute respiratory illnesses being witnessed in many states, the Centre also called an interdepartmental review meeting last week

  • Bariatric surgery for obesity is gaining ground in India, but has a long way to go March 04, 2023 04:45 PM IST

    Bariatric surgery for obesity is gaining ground in India, but has a long way to go

    Though aggressive public awareness campaigns and programmes are being conducted by different institutions to promote bariatric surgery in the country, the social stigma associated with surgery for obesity, lack of awareness and non-coverage by health insurers are major hurdles.

  • India saved over 3.4 million lives due to unprecedented scale of COVID vaccination: Report February 24, 2023 10:37 AM IST

    India saved over 3.4 million lives due to unprecedented scale of COVID vaccination: Report

    "A Lancet modelling study estimates that in India around 34,22,00054 deaths were prevented by vaccination in the year 2021, an estimate based on officially reported deaths in India," the report has said.

  • Union Minister Chandrasekhar says Pfizer tried to bully government into giving indemnity to supply COVID jab January 20, 2023 05:13 PM IST

    Union Minister Chandrasekhar says Pfizer tried to bully government into giving indemnity to supply COVID jab

    Pfizer had sought an emergency use authorisation for its jab in December 2020 but withdrew the proposal in February 2021 after failing to meet the drug regulator’s demand for a local safety study

  • Bharat Biotech’s Covaxin inching closer to US launch plan? January 09, 2023 05:56 PM IST

    Bharat Biotech’s Covaxin inching closer to US launch plan?

    Covaxin was found to be well-tolerated in vaccine-naïve individuals and in individuals previously vaccinated with mRNA vaccines in the US with no vaccine-related serious adverse events, Bharat Biotech’s partner in the country has announced

  • COVID-19 testing in mild cases not necessary, may drive panic, say top virologists January 06, 2023 10:42 AM IST

    COVID-19 testing in mild cases not necessary, may drive panic, say top virologists

    Over the past few days, the number of COVID-19 cases in India has risen marginally, owing to a jump in tests even though the test positivity rate stays very low.

  • India sees rise in Covid variants driving cases abroad, govt steps up surveillance December 23, 2022 02:14 PM IST

    India sees rise in Covid variants driving cases abroad, govt steps up surveillance

    The detection rate of BA.5 variant, whose sub-strain BF.7 is wreaking havoc in China, went up from 26% in September to 38% in December, while that of BQ.1.1 rose to 33% in December from 27% in September. Official says the rise is marginal

  • INSACOG closely assessing situation, vigilant on COVID mutant: NK Arora December 21, 2022 03:45 PM IST

    INSACOG closely assessing situation, vigilant on COVID mutant: NK Arora

    The co-chair of Indiá’s coronavirus genomic surveillance programme says a coordinated assessment has helped India detect several variants and contain outbreaks in the past

  • Rentals of residential spaces up by 20-25 percent in Delhi-NCR November 26, 2022 08:03 AM IST

    Rentals of residential spaces up by 20-25 percent in Delhi-NCR

    The jump in rentals is higher in prime localities such as Defence Colony, Greater Kailash-2 in Delhi, localities around the Dwarka Expressway and Golf Course Road in Gurugram and sectors located around the Noida-Greater Noida Expressway and Central Noida, which includes sectors such as 50, 51, 78 and 76.

  • China warns against extra 'layers' of COVID curbs as outbreaks widen November 10, 2022 04:46 PM IST

    China warns against extra 'layers' of COVID curbs as outbreaks widen

    China is grappling with its highest tallies of coronavirus cases since April, raising questions about its zero-COVID policy that has frustrated the public and inflicted damage on the world’s second-largest economy.

  • Protests rise in China | Bappi da's 'Jimmy Jimmy' song trends with lockdown protestors | World News November 03, 2022 10:27 AM IST

    Protests rise in China | Bappi da's 'Jimmy Jimmy' song trends with lockdown protestors | World News

    Millions of Chinese suffering from the dreaded lockdown are turning to a retro Bollywood hit to express their frustrations. Bappi Lehri’s iconic song Jimmy Jimmy from the 1982 hit movie Disco Dancer has found a new audience in China where people are using the song to protest China’s stringent lockdown protocol. Watch this video to find out how an iconic Bollywood track from the 80s is now the soundtrack to protests in China.

  • Recombinant COVID variant detected in three states; Govt says no association with case rise in India October 20, 2022 03:49 PM IST

    Recombinant COVID variant detected in three states; Govt says no association with case rise in India

    The new Omicron sub-variants have been detected in Gujarat, Maharashtra and Karnataka. Officials say there is no reason for panic as the variants detected in India so far haven’t been associated with severe disease.

  • Gennova gets DCGI’s nod for developing Omicron-specific mRNA vaccine October 10, 2022 04:12 PM IST

    Gennova gets DCGI’s nod for developing Omicron-specific mRNA vaccine

    The Pune-based firm has has been told by CDSCO that only CDL, Kasauli certified batches shall be used in the clinical trial of mRNA vaccine.

  • Dementia, as a fallout of COVID-19, emerges as a threat to India’s elderly  September 21, 2022 06:19 PM IST

    Dementia, as a fallout of COVID-19, emerges as a threat to India’s elderly 

    According to estimates, 5 out of every 100 elderly people in India have dementia and many more are at high risk of developing the condition.

  • Zenara pharma launches COVID-19 antiviral pills September 09, 2022 01:46 PM IST

    Zenara pharma launches COVID-19 antiviral pills

    Paxzen, a two-drug combination, is the generic version of Pfizer's anti-covid pill Paxlovid. A box of Paxzen will cost Rs 5,200

  • COVID-19 booster dose drive fails to pick up, only one in five eligible adults jabbed August 31, 2022 11:15 AM IST

    COVID-19 booster dose drive fails to pick up, only one in five eligible adults jabbed

    Meghalaya has the worst 8 percent coverage of the Covid booster dose among its eligible population, while Andhra Pradesh has the highest at 34 percent

  • Sonia Gandhi tests positive for COVID-19 again August 13, 2022 12:49 PM IST

    Sonia Gandhi tests positive for COVID-19 again

    Sonia Gandhi had tested positive for COVID-19 in early June as well.

  • North Korea lifts mask mandate, distancing rules after declaring COVID victory August 13, 2022 08:36 AM IST

    North Korea lifts mask mandate, distancing rules after declaring COVID victory

    Under the shift to a "normal" anti-epidemic system from a "top-level" system, North Korea dropped the mask-wearing obligation and other rules such as limit on service time of commercial and public facilities in all areas except border regions, according to the official KCNA.

  • Karnataka CM Basavaraj Bommai tests COVID positive August 06, 2022 10:01 AM IST

    Karnataka CM Basavaraj Bommai tests COVID positive

    Bommai said he has mild symptoms and has isolated himself at home.

  • Japan PM Kishida to reshuffle cabinet as COVID, Taiwan in focus August 06, 2022 09:40 AM IST

    Japan PM Kishida to reshuffle cabinet as COVID, Taiwan in focus

    Defence is in the spotlight with tension surging between self-ruled Taiwan and mainland China in recent days.

  • Covaxin booster doses effective against variants, shows study July 20, 2022 05:54 PM IST

    Covaxin booster doses effective against variants, shows study

    The findings of the study have been published in the high-impact scientific journal Nature.