Health and Family Welfare Ministry

New Delhi: With 1,13,623 beneficiaries receiving COVID-19 vaccines till 7 am on Friday, Odisha is among the only three states to have crossed the one-lakh vaccinations mark. The other two states are Karnataka (1,38,807) and Andhra Pradesh…

New Delhi: The country continued reporting a downfall in daily new COVID-19 cases and consequential decline in active cases. For the first time, India’s share of active cases within the total positive cases has shrunk below 2% (1.98%), the…

New Delhi: The Union government dismissed media reports of Serum Institute India (SII) and Bharat Biotech’s emergency use authorisation of COVID-19 vaccine being rejected and called it “fake.” According to a report earlier in the day, SII…

New Delhi: The new confirmed cases of COVID-19 in the country in the last 24 hours have fallen below 27,000 (26,567) for the first time after nearly 5 months, the Health and Family Welfare Ministry informed on Tuesday. The new cases were…

New Delhi: India continued to report a decreasing trend of active COVID-19 cases with the number of such cases dropping below the 9 lakh mark for the fourth consecutive day on Monday. According to the Health and Family Welfare Ministry,…

New Delhi: India has crossed a landmark milestone with active cases remaining below the 10-lakh mark for two straight weeks, the Health and Family Welfare Ministry said on Monday. This is the first time since the start of the pandemic that…