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With the rising cases, the central government has directed affected states to strengthen fever and rash surveillance, Hindustan Times has reported citing people familiar with the matter.  “The Union health ministry has been asking states to heighten surveillance so that cases are not missed, and also detected early so that treatment reaches on time. This will help save lives," official aware of the matter said told HT, requesting anonymity. The two…

NEW DELHI : The Indian SARS-COV-2 Genomics Consortia (INSACOG) on Sunday said that Omicron and its sub-lineages continue to be the dominant variant in India. BA.2 and its descendent lineages, in particular, BA.2.75, have been mostly…

NEW DELHI : The Union health ministry has directed states and union territories to focus on the universal immunization programme (UIP), which was…

NEW DELHI : With more than 100 cases of Tomato Flu reported in younger children below 9 years of age in India from Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Haryana and Odisha, the union health ministry has issued…

NEW DELHI : In a first, Biological E’s covid-19…

NEW DELHI : India has reported eight cases of monkeypox so far, the union health minister Mansukh Madaviya said on Tuesday. He added that five patients with monkeypox had a foreign travel…

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NEW DELHI : India has reported first laboratory confirmed case of Monkeypox in Kerala from Kollam district…

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NEW DELHI : The union health ministry has reduced the covid-19 vaccine booster dose gap from existing nine months to six months.  In a letter to all states/UTs, Rajesh Bhushan, union health secretary…