India's healthcare system is at breaking point as the COVID crisis in India spirals out of control. Hospitals are bursting at the seams in Delhi, Bengaluru, Mumbai, Ahmedabad where there is a grim shortage of beds and even ventilators, anti-viral drugs are running out. The current spike of COVID cases has left the country's frontline workers overworked.  India recorded 168,912 new cases in the last 24 hours, according to the health ministry. Maharashtra registered the highest number of confirmed infections at 63,294 followed by Uttar Pradesh (15,276), and Delhi (10,774). Watch the video for more.Also Read: COVID-19: Second wave can weaken India's economic recovery, says Moody's

Gandhi stated that the priority should be to \"test, track and vaccinate\". \"There must be transparency - Governments must reveal the actual numbers of infections and deaths across states, whether Congress-ruled or otherwise,\" she added

Dr Vardhan says over 89 lakh healthcare workers have got the first dose and over 54 lakhs have got the second dose. As far as frontline or field level workers are concerned, over 98 lakhs got the first dose and over 45 lakhs have got the second dose, he adds

These teams are being rushed to 30 districts of Maharashtra, 11 districts of Chhattisgarh and nine districts of Punjab to assist the state health department and local authorities in COVID-19 surveillance, control and containment measures

The meeting came on a day India recorded 93,249 new coronavirus infections, the highest single-day rise so far this year that took the total COVID-19 cases to 1,24,85,509

Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan was speaking while chairing the 22nd meeting of the high-level Group of Ministers (GoM) on COVID-19 through video-conferencing on Saturday

The coronavirus is known to cause respiratory infection in patients who are affected by it. Air Hunger is a symptom of the damage done to the lungs by the infection brought on by COVID-19

Amid the spurt in coronavirus cases in Delhi, Amit Shah took the lead in ramping up medical infrastructure and formulating a new strategy to combat the COVID-19

Union Health Minister Harsh Wardhan asserted that India has managed despite facing scarcities of PPE kits, ventilators and N-95 masks at the start of the pandemic and is now leading the research on the vaccine globally

Minister of State for Health Ashwini Choubey says 2,39,66,859 tests were conducted in August, 1,05, 32,288 in July, 49,93,422 in June, 29,37,284 in May, 8,64,517 in April and 33,330 in March

WHO's recommendation is based on three new studies, plus four other earlier trials, all involving a drug from the family of corticosteroids

More than 180,000 people have died from the coronavirus pandemic since the start of the outbreak in the US, according to a tally by Johns Hopkins University

In India, the government and the private sector have worked together to ensure the integrity of medical supply chains, and essential medicines from India have continued to reach the United States and some 150 partner countries, Sandhu wrote

In addition to the ventilators, USAID is funding a package of support that includes warranties and additional supplies required to operate these machines, such as tubes, filters and other necessary components

In a letter to states and UTs, Secretary in the Health Ministry, Rajesh Bhushan stressed the need for operationalising ambulance transport system with oxygen facility and quick response mechanism

Independent research has found RFL-100 can block COVID-19's replication in human lung cells and monocytes; no other antiviral agent has demonstrated rapid recovery from viral infection and demonstrated laboratory inhibition of viral replication, says Jonathan Javitt, CEO, NeuroRx

Coronavirus update: The total coronavirus cases surged to 17,50,723, while the death toll climbed to 37,364 with 853 people succumbing to the disease in a day, the data updated at 8 am showed

Following the approval, the decision was communicated to the Director General of Foreign Trade (DGFT), which then issued a notification allowing the export of indigenously manufactured ventilators

More than 5 lakh tests are being conducted in the country daily, efforts are underway to increase this capacity to 10 lakh in the coming weeks, says PM Modi

In the coming weeks, Israel will send a high ranking defence ministry research and development team (R&D) to India in a special flight for an unprecedented anti-COVID-19 operation