The meeting comes in the wake of rising cases of the coronavirus in Delhi which reached 36,000 and the pandemic so far claimed more than 1,200 lives in the capital
India on Thursday went past the United Kingdom in terms of coronavirus cases to become the fourth worst-hit country
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Vardhan would succeed Dr Hiroki Nakatani of Japan, currently the Chairman of the 34-member WHO Executive Board
There has been an increase of 148 deaths and 6,088 cases since Thursday 8 am, according to the Health Ministry
The main functions of the Board are to implement the decisions and policies of the Health Assembly and facilitate its work
Being a doctor and also a health administrator, Covid-19 has propelled him into a place in the sun that he could only have hoped for
According to the health ministry data, India added 3,722 new cases in a day, taking the tally to 78,003 as of Thursday morning. As many as 26,235 patients have been cured.
The anti-SARS-Cov-2 human lgG ELISA kit has the advantage of testing 90 samples together in a single run of 2.5 hours
Vardhan also flagged the large prevalence of non-smoking tobacco usage in some of the states and the problem of spitting in public places.
On Tuesday, the number of positive cases shot up to 46,433 from the 42,836 the day before, a sharp rise of 3,597 cases
'The fight against it needs to be taken more seriously here,' Union Health Minister said
DST's efforts have helped India attain 3rd position globally after China and the US in terms of the number of publications in science citation index journals, says the health minister
As on Wednesday, India had conducted a total of 770,764 tests
The Indian Council of Medical Research is conducting a national study to study the efficacy of this therapy
The minister said that the government has instructed the AIIMS to act proactively and remove the stigma around Covid-19 patients.
On April 15, the health ministry declared 170 districts as COVID-19 hotspots and 207 districts as non-hotspots
The release further said that the State also suggested the re-use of the personal protection equipment (PPE) kits by disinfecting it.