On World Toilet Day 2020, Union Minister of Jal Shakti Gajendra Singh Shekhawat said India achieved United Nations' sustainable development goal of having toilets in every house by 2030 in 2019 only ...
The FELUDA COVID-19 test which resembles a home pregnancy paper-strip test uses advanced technology to identify and target the genetic material of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19 in less than one hour ...
According to experts, R number helps in understanding how fast and wide is the infection spreading; but what exactly is the R number and why does it matter during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic? ...
Dr Randeep Guleria, the Director of All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), says that despite the downward trend in COVID-19 cases, it is important to sustain this in the coming festive season and winter months ...
While most COVID-19 cases in India remain asymptomatic, here’s what Dr Vincent Rajkumar, editor-in-chief of Blood Cancer Journal thinks about the prevalence of asymptomatic coronavirus patients in India ...
COVAX initiative aims to ensure global access to vaccines against the novel coronavirus by helping buy and distribute vaccination shots fairly around the world ...
The world awaits a safe and effective vaccine that can help put an end to the COVID-19 pandemic, here are the different phases of clinical trials the vaccine has to clear before being available for public use ...
As India’s coronavirus caseload increases and various sero survey results indicate, the bulk of COVID-19 cases in India are asymptomatic and this is making containing the spread a challenge
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As per the experts, there are two pathways to herd immunity - natural infection, when a large number of people have had a disease and recovered; or vaccination, which can provide widespread immunity faster and more reliably ...
According to experts, COVID-19 has been acknowledged as airborne by WHO which implies that such air conditioning systems that are recirculating the indoor air may spread coronavirus among users even when they are practising social distancing ...
The 'R' or the Reproduction Rate is a measure of how many people are infected by one infected person; where a declining R rate means the spread of COVID-19 is reducing and an upward trend in the R rate means the spread is increasing ...
NDTV speaks with director of AIIMS, Dr Randeep Guleria about India's surging covid numbers, dos and don'ts of different coronavirus tests and the long term effect of COVID on recovered patients ...
In the context of a human-borne illness, like COVID-19, a super spreader is an individual who is more likely to infect others, compared with other typically infected people ...
NDTV speaks Dr Rajinder K Dhamija, Head of Neurology Department, Lady Hardinge Medical College to understand if children and young adults are less vulnerable to COVID-19 ...
According to experts, T-cells play an essential role in supporting immune system and are responsible for defending the body against pathogens like the SARS-CoV-2 from re-invading, by identifying and killing the infected cells which suggest that these may also provide guard to COVID-19 survivor from the second attack of the virus ...
According to India Child Well-being Report 2020, released by World Vision India, many children in the country are no longer having three meals a day and many are missing school mid-day meals ...
Failing to breastfeed according to the World Health Organization (WHO) and UNICEF recommendations amounts to real costs in human life, quality of life, and national economic outcomes ...
NGO Smile Foundation has distributed over 1.5 lakh hygiene kits to ensure that along with awareness, vulnerable families also have access to basic hygiene care ...
In his Mann ki Baat episode on November 29, Prime Minister Narendra Modi shared the story of a farmer from Haryana who is making money by selling stubble to agro energy plant and paper mill ...
As India gears up for World Toilet Day with the theme Sustainable Sanitation and Climate Change, NDTV speaks with Dr Suresh Kumar Rohilla, Programme Director - Water Programme, Centre for Science and Environment to know what is the status of sanitation in India and what the country should focus next
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Rashtriya Swachhata Kendra is an interactive experience centre in New Delhi, where the installations will introduce future generations to the journey of the world's largest behaviour change campaign, the Swachh Bharat Mission ...
UNAIDS said in its new report that as COVID-19 pushes the AIDS response even further off track and the 2020 targets are missed, countries must learn from the lessons of underinvesting in health and to step up global action to end AIDS and other pandemics ...
The study confirmed that without protectives measures like a face mask, the smaller droplets expelled during a sneeze can travel up to 25ft in a stagnant environment. It confirms and also recommends a social distancing of 6ft from all orientations to prevent transmission of COVID- 19 ...
Politicians, celebrities, organisations and other netizens took to social media on the occasion of World AIDS Day 2020 to raise awareness about HIV and AIDS ...
Coronavirus has spread to 191 countries. The total confirmed cases worldwide are 6,38,24,717 and 14,79,943 have died; 2,13,44,996 are active cases and 4,09,99,778 have recovered as on December 2, 2020 at 4:06 am.
India
94,99,413 36604Cases
4,28,644 -6959Active
89,32,647 43062Recovered
1,38,122 501Deaths
In India, there are 94,99,413 confirmed cases including 1,38,122 deaths. The number of active cases is 4,28,644 and 89,32,647 have recovered as on December 2, 2020 at 2:30 am.
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