Health Ministry Press Briefing

The Union Health Ministry will decide about COVID-19 vaccination for children less than 15 years of age only after scientific evidence, said Rajesh Bhushan, Health Secretary while addressing a press briefing on Thursday.

No case of Lambda variant of SARS-CoV-2 has been found in India so far, the government said. Responding to a question at a press briefing, Joint Secretary in health ministry, Lav Agarwal, said Indian SARS-CoV-2 Genomics Consortium is monitoring it.

Existing vaccines will work against mutated strains of the coronavirus that have emerged from the United Kingdom and South Africa in recent months, the Health Ministry said at its Tuesday evening press briefing

The government's "ultimate aim" is to reduce COVID-19 positivity rates to 5 per cent and maintain aggressive testing levels, the Health Ministry said Tuesday

Cyclone Amphan is likely to reach speeds up to 120 km per hour when it reaches Kolkata this evening, the weather office's chief said in a press briefing today. Over five lakh people have been taken to shelters in West Bengal and over one lakh in Odisha, the National Disaster Response Force (NRDF) chief said today in the same press briefing, where t...

The information flow from the government on the coronavirus pandemic in the country has slowed down to a trickle as the numbers spiraled. From a detailed briefing to the media by health ministry officials, which started sometime in the mid-March, the communication has shrunk to a press release every day.

The government has ordered 1.7 crore PPEs (personal protection equipment) and 49,000 ventilators to aid healthcare workers and doctors in the fight against the infectious novel coronavirus, the Health Ministry said today in its daily press briefing

The rate of doubling of the coronavirus cases in India would have been 7.4 days instead of 4.1 if the Tablighi Jamaat event - a Delhi religious congregation in which over 1,000 contracted the virus - hadn't taken place, the Union Health Ministry said in a press briefing today.

The Union Health Ministry will decide about COVID-19 vaccination for children less than 15 years of age only after scientific evidence, said Rajesh Bhushan, Health Secretary while addressing a press briefing on Thursday.

No case of Lambda variant of SARS-CoV-2 has been found in India so far, the government said. Responding to a question at a press briefing, Joint Secretary in health ministry, Lav Agarwal, said Indian SARS-CoV-2 Genomics Consortium is monitoring it.

Existing vaccines will work against mutated strains of the coronavirus that have emerged from the United Kingdom and South Africa in recent months, the Health Ministry said at its Tuesday evening press briefing

The government's "ultimate aim" is to reduce COVID-19 positivity rates to 5 per cent and maintain aggressive testing levels, the Health Ministry said Tuesday

Cyclone Amphan is likely to reach speeds up to 120 km per hour when it reaches Kolkata this evening, the weather office's chief said in a press briefing today. Over five lakh people have been taken to shelters in West Bengal and over one lakh in Odisha, the National Disaster Response Force (NRDF) chief said today in the same press briefing, where t...

The information flow from the government on the coronavirus pandemic in the country has slowed down to a trickle as the numbers spiraled. From a detailed briefing to the media by health ministry officials, which started sometime in the mid-March, the communication has shrunk to a press release every day.

The government has ordered 1.7 crore PPEs (personal protection equipment) and 49,000 ventilators to aid healthcare workers and doctors in the fight against the infectious novel coronavirus, the Health Ministry said today in its daily press briefing

The rate of doubling of the coronavirus cases in India would have been 7.4 days instead of 4.1 if the Tablighi Jamaat event - a Delhi religious congregation in which over 1,000 contracted the virus - hadn't taken place, the Union Health Ministry said in a press briefing today.