Welspun India to manufacture 250,000 masks per day including 3 ply surgical mask, reusable mask and N95 respirator

The WHO has said that there is still no high quality or direct scientific evidence, which proves that widespread use of facemasks or face covering by the general public is beneficial when it comes to curbing the spread of the coronavirus

These accounts largely targeted business leaders in financial services, consulting and healthcare corporations in numerous countries including the United States, Slovenia, Canada, India, Bahrain, Cyprus and UK, the company said in a blog post

Senior advocate Mukul Rohatgi, appearing for doctor-petitioner Arushi Jain, had said that resident doctors in government hospitals, after completing 7/14 days on duty, are supposed to be quarantined

Institutions of higher learning are graduating to new delivery models to engage with students online

State public health expenditure is just 1 per cent of GDP. The time to invest in healthcare is now

Coronavirus (COVID-19) Tracker Live Updates: \"Nothing will happen with the package that PM Modi has announced. I have had indirect conversations with decision-makers and their idea is that if more money is given to the poor, there will be a wrong impact abroad,\" says Gandhi

Managing Director of Kotak Mahindra Bank Uday Kotak has stressed on the cost-competitiveness of India's professionals across sectors and said that the country has potential to become the world's office; A month after successfully conducting a pilot across areas in Navi Mumbai, Thane and Kalyan, Reliance Retail's online venture JioMart expanded its services across several towns and cities; At least four of the candidate coronavirus vaccines are soon expected to enter the clinical trial stage, Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan said. Watch this and more news on News Blast.Also Read: Kotak Mahindra Bank gets shareholder nod to issue 6.5 crore equity shares

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

India can be 'world's office' if China is 'world's factory': Uday KotakManaging Director of Kotak Mahindra Bank Uday Kotak on Sunday stressed on the cost-competitiveness of India's professionals across sectors and said that the country has potential to become the world's office. \"China is the world's factory, India can be its office!\" Kotak tweeted. The comment comes on the backdrop of the reports that a number of global giants are looking to shift their manufacturing facilities...

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

The legislation would send green cards to 25,000 foreign nurses and 15,000 immigrant doctors residing in the United States during the COVID-19 pandemic

Many authorities across countries now have an access to Apple and Google contact tracing technology but with some restrictions. Find out more.

Dr Rajib Dasgupta of Jawaharlal Nehru University, says that the move by the finance minister on infectious disease block at the district level is a welcome measure

Also, all states and UTs have been asked to ensure unrestricted inter-state and intra-state movement of medical professionals, nurses and paramedical staff along with sanitation personnel and ambulances

The National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) has ordered ministries,central and state governments to issue modification in the guidelines as necessary keeping in view the need to open up economic activities while containing the spread of COVID-19, according the order released by the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA)

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said that the Centre has committed Rs 15,000 crore for health-related measures so far to contain COVID-19 outbreak

Sitharaman Speech Live Updates on Economic Package: With an eye on further enhancement of Ease of Doing Business Government announces suspension of fresh initiation of insolvency proceedings up to one year

Cardiac patients need to understand that with low immunity levels, they are at a greater risk of contracting the virus and hence should totally avoid socialising and social occasions like family get-togethers

The PPE has been developed by a doctor of Indian Navy, posted at the recently created Innovation Cell at Institute of Naval Medicine (INM), Mumbai. A pilot batch of PPEs has already been produced at Naval Dockyard Mumbai