The Building and Factories business of L&T also said that it could transform large establishments such as marriage halls, schools and hotel rooms quickly into isolation wards

Impetus, similar to what was given to IT sector in its earlier early days, needs to be extended to healthcare industry so it can grow in a similarly vigorous fashion, says Apollo Hospitals' Suneeta Reddy and Biocon's Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw

Over 64 healthcare personnel including resident doctors, nurses, laboratory staff, technicians, sanitation staff and security guards have tested positive in the last three days

Coronavirus update: The Delhi government's health bulletin reports cumulative death figures that refer to fatalities where the primary cause of death was found to be COVID-19 by the Death Audit Committee on the basis of case sheets received from various hospitals

India has 0.5 beds per 1,000 people, according to the latest data from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), up from 0.4 beds in 2009, but among lowest of countries surveyed by the OECD

PM Modi discussed the situation arising out of the COVID-19 crisis with Rajapaksa and said that India will continue to support \"our close maritime neighbour\" in dealing with the pandemic and its economic impact

The industrial estates situated in non-containment zones, inclduing the Ambattur and Guindy clusters here can resume work from May 25, the state government said

Coronavirus vaccine update: Experts have welcomed the findings, saying the results showed patients on remdesivir cut their recovery time by 27 per cent

Professor, Indian Institute of Public Health, Hyderabad, Public Health Foundation of India, V Ramana Dhara said one has to consider the invisible loss of life from the increase in poverty-related diseases like TB, malnutrition and cholera, which can be neglected while the 'lockdowns are ongoing'

Air India pilot, Deven Kanani, in his plea claimed a circular issued by the Government of India on March 23, 2020 laid some conditions to prevent the spread of COVID-19 while bringing back Indians stranded abroad due to the pandemic

The government has asked the eleven municipal areas to step up monitoring in old cities, urban slums and other high density pockets like camps and clusters for migrant workers for management of COVID-19 cases

Kiran Kumar said when he went to the hospital he had no cough, fever, or any kind of coronavirus symptoms. Also, it has been 10 days since his checkup, Kumar has shown no symptoms of coronavirus

AIIMS Director Dr. Randeep Guleria expressed his grief over Dr Jitendra Nath Pande's death. He said that the AIIMS family will miss Dr. Pande the most because he joined AIIMS as an MBBS student and retired as the head of the Department of Medicine

Coronavirus (COVID-19) tracker India highlights: Maharashtra remains worst-affected by in the country with 50,231 confirmed coronavirus cases in the state. Of this, Mumbai alone accounts for 30,542 cases and 988 deaths

Delhi weather update: A heatwave is when the maximum temperature reaches 40 degrees or more in plains and 30 degrees or more in hilly regions

Coronavirus  update: The deceased was from Odisha. He used to work at the hostel mess of Dr. Rajender Prasad Centre for Ophthalmic Sciences.

Coronavirus (COVID-19) Highlights: Sikkim, the only state in India to be coronavirus-free up until now, has reported its first COVID-19 confirmed case on Saturday

The National Task force (NTF) for COVID-19 constituted by the ICMR reviewed the use of HCQ for prophylaxis of SARS-CoV-2 infection for high-risk population based on the emerging evidence on its safety and efficacy

As per the available scientific literature till now, the survival of virus gradually decreases with time in a dead body but there is no specific time limit to declare the body non-infective

Coronavirus (COVID-19) tracker India news live updates: Delhi recorded 660 fresh COVID-19 cases in the last 24 hours, the highest one-day jump in the national capital. Delhi's total count of coronavirus positive cases now stands at 11,659. India's total count of confirmed coronavirus cases spiked to 1,18,447 on Friday, according to Union Health Ministry