Union Health Ministry

New Delhi: The Union health ministry on Friday released a set of guidelines for home isolation in mild or asymptomatic COVID-19 cases. According to the new guidelines, the isolation period has been extended to seven days. It would end…

New Delhi: Amid concerns over the Omicron variant of Coronavirus, the Centre on Friday warned about the declining compliance to mask usage in the country while urging the people to follow Covid-appropriate behaviour and get vaccinated to…

New Delhi: The Centre on Monday allowed conducting post-mortem after sunset in hospitals with adequate infrastructure, except in cases of homicide, suicide, rape and decomposed bodies. In response to the multiple references that have…

New Delhi: India has reported 18,987 new COVID-19 cases in the last 24 hours, said Union Health Ministry on Thursday. With 19,808 recoveries in the last 24 hours, the cumulative recoveries climbed to 3,33,62,709. Currently, India has…

New Delhi: Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare in partnership with UNICEF hosted a communication awareness workshop for representatives of Community Radio Stations from 16 States. The thematic session highlighted the need to…

New Delhi: Amid concerns over the impact of a potential third wave of the coronavirus pandemic on children, Union Health Ministry in its weekly press conference on Friday cautioned that the next 100 to 125 days are critical in the fight…

New Delhi: As an ongoing effort to strengthen the efforts of various State/UT Governments for COVID management, the Central Government has been deputing Central teams from time to time to visit various States/UTs. These teams interact…

New Delhi: In an act of immense significance, Dr Harsh Vardhan, Union Minister of Health and Family Welfare today distributed masks among frontline Workers at the Union Health Ministry. He stated that although this gesture was symbolic,…

New Delhi: Union Health Ministry's National Telemedicine Service – eSanjeevani has crossed another milestone by completing 60 lakh consultations through more than 375 online OPDs, where over 40,000 patients consult over 1600 doctors  and…

New Delhi: Nearly 51 lakh vaccine doses are in the pipeline and will be received by the States/UTs within the next 3 days, informed the Union Health Ministry. The Centre has so far provided more than 20 crore vaccine doses (20,28,09,250)…