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New Delhi: Pollution led to more than 2.3 million premature deaths in India in 2019, according to a new Lancet study. Nearly 1.6 million deaths were due to air pollution alone, and more than 500,000 were caused by water pollution. Nearly…

Hyderabad: The World Health Organization (WHO) is a step closer to granting an emergency use listing (EUL) to Covaxin after Bharat Biotech provided additional data on the vaccine sought by the world body. According to a document on the WHO…

New Delhi: Just how dire India’s COVID-19 situation is can be gauged from worldwide figures. Of the total COVID-19 cases recorded in the globe last week, India accounted for 46% of them, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on…

New Delhi: India has asked World Health Organisation’s (WHO) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus to replace maps on its web portals showing incorrect boundaries of the country. “I write to express my deep displeasure at the…

New Delhi: The World Health Organisation (WHO) announced on Friday that it will set up a Global Centre for Traditional Medicine in India, with Prime Minister Narendra Modi expressing confidence that the proposed institute will become the…

New Delhi: The Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, on Monday tweeted that India has surpassed the World Health Organisation's (WHO) recommendation of conducting 140 tests per day per million population for COVID-19 by nearly six…

Geneva: World Health Organisation (WHO) chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus on Monday ) warned that coronavirus COVID-19 is not the last pandemic and the world must be better prepared for the next pandemic. The WHO chief said that countries…

Hyderabad: The Chief Scientist of World Health Organisation (WHO), Soumya Swaminathan said that India has a low testing rate compared to some countries that are successfully trying to curb it, reported NDTV. In an interactive session…

New Delhi: India registered its highest single-day spike of 28,498 COVID-19 cases in the last 24 hours, taking the country’s caseload past the 9 lakh mark at 9,06,752 on Tuesday. The fatalities surged to 23,727 with 553 more succumbing to…