Chennai, Jan 8 The total number of beneficiaries who received vaccinations against Covid-19 breached nine crore on Saturday, with 17.34 lakh more people receiving the shots at the 18th Mega Vaccination Camp, Tamil Nadu Minister Ma Subramanian said. The Minister for Medical and Family Welfare, who inspected the vaccination exercise in the city, said over […]

Lucknow, Jan 8 In yet another big jump in COVID-19 cases, Uttar Pradesh recorded 6,411 new infections and six deaths in the last 24 hours, pushing the virus tally to 17,29,870 and the fatality count to 22,924, according to an official bulletin. On Friday 4,228 fresh cases and one death were registered in the state. […]

Chennai, Jan 8 (BPNS) Tamil Nadu Director General of Police, C. Sylendra Babu has given a directive to the police personal to be polite to the public while conducting checking during the night curfew and on Sunday lockdown. The DGP in a statement on Friday said that the police personal must wear gloves and sanitize […]

Chennai, Jan 8 (BPNS) While more than sixty percent of the eligible children have in the age group of 15-18 have taken a vaccination in Tamil Nadu according to the department of health services,  some parents are wary of inoculating their children fearing side effects. Revathy of Bodiniakanar in Theni district while speaking to BPNS said, […]

Bhubaneswar, Jan 6 Odisha government Thursday geared up to tackle a possible third wave of coronavirus as the caseload in the contagion has surged across the country and its variant Omicron has been detected in almost all the 30 districts of the state. State government offices will function with 50 per cent capacity from January […]

New Delhi, Jan 6 At least six ward councillors in two municipal corporations here have tested positive for COVID-19, sources said on Thursday. East Delhi Mayor Shyam Sunder Aggarwal was also diagnosed with coronavirus infection on Wednesday and he is currently under home isolation. Delhi is reporting a fresh surge in coronavirus cases, amid a […]

Ranchi, Jan 6 Jharkhand witnessed 3,704 fresh COVID-19 cases on Thursday, up from 3,553 infections reported the previous day pushing the caseload in the disease to 3,65,222, a health department bulletin said. Five districts of the state accounted for majority of the new cases, as per the bulletin. Ranchi reported 1,309 fresh infections as against […]

Chandigarh, Jan 6  Five more coronavirus-related fatalities were reported in Punjab, while 2,427 fresh cases took the infection tally to 6,11,102 on Thursday, according to a medical bulletin. Punjab has been witnessing a surge in the number of infections for the past several days. The state had recorded 1,811 infections on Wednesday. The positivity rate […]

Chennai, Jan 6 (BPNS) Students and teachers of colleges across Tamil Nadu are worried after the Government of Tamil Nadu has announced the shutting down of all colleges except Medical colleges considering the rising Covid -19 cases including the Omicron variant. Most of the colleges are yet to complete their first-year syllabus and most of […]

Chennai, Jan 6 (BPNS) The Tamil Nadu government has geared up for facing the third wave in the state with the Omicron variant of Covid -19 increasing the number of fresh cases in the state. The state, according to health officials has already readied up 1.16 lakh beds of which more than 20,000 are oxygen […]