Puducherry, March 7 (BPNS) For the first time in the past two years since the outbreak of the Covid -19 pandemic, the Union Territory of Puducherry reported no fresh cases on Monday. Puducherry Director of Health services in a statement said that in the past 24 hours 157 samples were tested but not a single […]

Chennai, March 1 (BPNS) Tamil Nadu government doctors will stage a token protest fast on Wednesday from 10 am to 5 pm. The protest is for a number of demands that the doctors have been asking the government including proper relief for families of Government doctors who died of Covid 19. The doctors also demand […]

Chennai, Feb 25 (BPNS) Tamil Nadu received 3.89 lakh doses of Corbevax against Covid -19 for children in the age group of 12-15. The state health minister, Ma Subramanian said that the vaccine will be rolled out after the central government issues guidelines on the same. Ma Subramanian while speaking to BPNS said, “ Union […]

Chennai, Feb 25 (BPNS) The Tamil Nadu medical council has advised registered medical doctors from the state not to issue certificates to strangers as several doctors have lost their license to practice after issuing certificates based on fake Id papers. The medical council in an advisory to doctors said that certificates issued by doctors were […]

Chennai, Feb 16 (BPNS) The Tamil Nadu Public Health department will undertake testing of people at all crowded places including bus stations, railway stations, markets, and even beaches for Covid -19. This is a shift from the earlier guidelines issued by the Department of Public Health (DPH) to test contacts of positive people who have […]

Chennai, Feb 10 (BPNS) The fourth phase of the Sero surveillance study conducted by the Tamil Nadu health department has revealed that around 87 percent of people tested in the state have anti-bodies to Covid. The cross-sectional survey was conducted in December 2021 at the beginning of the Omicron variant triggered the third wave. It […]

Chennai, Feb 6 (BPNS) Tamil Nadu state public health department in a statement on Sunday said that the state vaccinated 7,91,889 (Seven lakh ninety-one thousand eight hundred and eighty-nine) people during the 21st mega vaccination camp held across the state on Saturday. The state has been conducting mega vaccination camps since September 12th. Of the 7,91,889 […]

Thiruvananthapuram, Feb 6 (BPNS) Kerala recorded 26, 729 fresh Covid -19 cases during the last 24 hours after testing 88,098 samples. 22 deaths were also reported on Sunday. This was announced by the state health department on Sunday. 927 people were admitted to various hospitals on Sunday. 49,691 people recovered from the disease in the […]

Chennai, Feb 5( BPNS) Tamil Nadu health minister Ma Subramanian has called upon people of the state not to be excited over the reduction in the number of fresh Covid cases and instead to be careful against the spread of the disease. In a statement on Saturday, the minister said that the fresh Covid cases […]

Chennai, Feb 4 (BPNS) Tamil Nadu health minister Ma Subramanian has said that the state has vaccinated 1.59 lakh children in the age group of 15-18 with the second dose of the Covid -19 vaccine. In a statement on Friday, the minister said that 78% of those eligible in the 15-18 age group have received […]