The 45-year-old ASHA worker uses hand painting, posters as her source of communication with the villagers and helps them receive healthcare facilities
Ameena Begum, an ASHA worker has been in the profession for over a decade, educating people on accessing healthcare services, ensuring good health and well-being.
Over 40 lakh children took the vaccine on January 3, the day COVID vaccination opened for teenagers in the 15 to 18 age group.
A 26-year-old Mumbai doctor has tested COVID-19 positive thrice in 13 months - twice after taking both doses of a COVID vaccine.
The report, World Health Statistics 2024, showed that between 2019 and 2021, global life expectancy declined by 1.8 years to 71.4 years (back to the level...
According to Johns Hopkins University, the FLiRT variants, which also include KP.2's "parental" lineage JN.1, have three key mutations on their spike protein
First identified globally in January, KP.2 is a descendant of Omicron’s JN.1 and appears to be more transmissible
Covid, the leading cause of health loss in 2021, affected 45 per cent more men than females
The Geneva-based U.N. health agency said it was the first step towards working out how to better prevent transmission, both for existing diseases like measles and...
The people who recovered from Covid are facing low immunity which has increased viral infections, skin allergies, cholecystitis, appendicitis etc, said Dr Shilpa Sharma
India saw a single-day rise of 144 cases of Covid, while the number of active cases of the infection has declined to 840
Four new deaths -- two from Delhi and one each from Gujarat and Maharashtra -- have been reported in the last 24 hours, the health ministery...
The study, published in The Lancet Infectious Diseases journal, sheds light on the variant's potential to become the dominant lineage and alerts the global health community
Like influenza, which hits people once or twice every year, "Covid is with us and it will remain", said Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya
The study, published in the journal Economic and Political Weekly, found that the number of children deemed underweight increased by 14 per cent as a result...
The number of daily cases had dropped to double-digits till December 5, but cases had begun to increase after the emergence of a new variant
Two COVID-19 deaths — one each in Kerala and Maharashtra — have been reported in 24 hours, according to the Union Health Ministry data
Maharashtra has recorded the highest number of JN.1 cases at 382 followed by Karnataka at 249, as per the Indian SARS-CoV-2 Genomics Consortium (INSACOG)
India has witnessed three waves of COVID-19 in the past with the peak incidence of daily new cases and deaths being reported in the Delta wave...
