Union Health Ministry

New Delhi: With 941 fresh COVID-19 cases being reported in the past 24 hours, India's tally on Thursday touched 12380. The death toll in the country rose to 414 as the virus claimed 37 more lives during this period, according to the Union…

New Delhi: The Union Health Ministry has identified 170 districts across India as hotspots. Classifying the districts into three zones -- hotspots, non-hotspots and green zones -- Health Ministry’s Joint Secretary Lav Agarwal informed on…

New Delhi: The number of COVID-19 cases in India have gone past 9,000, but the Union Health ministry shared an encouraging piece of news on Monday. That is, no new COVID-19 cases have been detected in 25 districts from 15 states with…

New Delhi: The Centre has urged the states to significantly increase the number of tests for COVID-19 in the next few days. A total of 1,44,910 samples were tested across the country till Friday evening. The Union government wants that…

New Delhi: Around 8,000 people have been tested for novel coronavirus in the last 24 hours across India, the highest in a single day. This was disclosed by the Union Health Ministry during its daily briefing on the COVID-19 situation in the…

New Delhi: To reduce the risk of COVID-19 transmission, the Centre has allowed doctors to write prescriptions based on telephonic conversations with patients. The Union Health Ministry informed this in telemedicine guidelines framed…