N95 Masks

With daily COVID-19 cases seeing a drop over the third wave peak in January, more people are returning to a normal life again. However, this has also led to many people sidestepping COVID-19 guidelines, like wearing a mask in social settings. Is that

The omicron variant spreads so rapidly that sometimes it feels as if resistance is futile. It's disheartening to hear of omicron infecting people who are up-to-date on their shots and wear an N95 mask every time they leave home.

As Omicron spreads rapidly across the world, there is a race to fight it on multiple fronts. These include preparing the health infrastructure, imposing curbs to ensure social distancing and making sure people wear masks.

High-quality N95 masks aren't just for health-care workers anymore. Starting Thursday, Connecticut will make that abundantly clear when it begins giving away 6 million of them to the state's 3.6 million residents.

To combat the harmful effects of unhealthy air quality and keeping the viruses at bay, wearing a N-95 mask has become the need of the hour!

Kerala today capped the prices of key articles like PPE kits and facial masks, days after it did the same to COVID-19 treatment in private hospitals.

Ravichandran Ashwin offered to buy and distribute N95 masks among those who can't afford them, while urging people to refrain from using cloth masks.

Apart from donating face masks and PPE kits, the Ford Fund will be donating $200,000 to support organisations providing essential COVID-19 relief in India and Brazil.

India produced over 60 million personal protective equipment (PPE) and 150 million N95 masks in just seven months, said Union Textiles Minister Smriti Irani while addressing a programme on Aatmanirbhar Bharat via videoconferencing on Friday.

N95 masks may be the most effective at reducing the spread of the novel coronavirus, according to a study by researchers, including those from the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), which suggests that any mask is better than no mask at preventing COVID-19.

Over 3.04 crore N95 masks, more than 1.28 crore PPE kits and over 10.83 crore HCQ tablets have been distributed among the states, union territories and central institutions, free of cost by the central government since March 11, said the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare on Thursday.

The S.N. Bose National Centre For Basic Sciences, which comes under the Department of Science and Technology, has developed an active respirator mask with attached exhalation valve and suspended particulate matter filter for comfortable and hygienic breathing.

An ozone-based decontamination device, Chakr DeCoV, to enable safe reuse of N95 masks has been developed by an incubated startup of Indian Institute Of Technology or IIT Delhi. The device has been developed keeping in view the high reliability of healthcare workers on these masks in fight against the coronavirus.

Chakr Innovation, an Indian Institute of Technology Delhi startup, will launch its N95 mask disinfect technology at an online panel discussion and launch event "Sustainability in the times of Pandemic: Decontamination and Reuse of N95 Masks for a Healthier Planet".

CEAT Tyres has now announced its foray into personal protective equipment business with the launch of GoSafe S95 face masks in India.

With daily COVID-19 cases seeing a drop over the third wave peak in January, more people are returning to a normal life again. However, this has also led to many people sidestepping COVID-19 guidelines, like wearing a mask in social settings. Is that

The omicron variant spreads so rapidly that sometimes it feels as if resistance is futile. It's disheartening to hear of omicron infecting people who are up-to-date on their shots and wear an N95 mask every time they leave home.

As Omicron spreads rapidly across the world, there is a race to fight it on multiple fronts. These include preparing the health infrastructure, imposing curbs to ensure social distancing and making sure people wear masks.

High-quality N95 masks aren't just for health-care workers anymore. Starting Thursday, Connecticut will make that abundantly clear when it begins giving away 6 million of them to the state's 3.6 million residents.

To combat the harmful effects of unhealthy air quality and keeping the viruses at bay, wearing a N-95 mask has become the need of the hour!

Kerala today capped the prices of key articles like PPE kits and facial masks, days after it did the same to COVID-19 treatment in private hospitals.

Ravichandran Ashwin offered to buy and distribute N95 masks among those who can't afford them, while urging people to refrain from using cloth masks.

Apart from donating face masks and PPE kits, the Ford Fund will be donating $200,000 to support organisations providing essential COVID-19 relief in India and Brazil.

India produced over 60 million personal protective equipment (PPE) and 150 million N95 masks in just seven months, said Union Textiles Minister Smriti Irani while addressing a programme on Aatmanirbhar Bharat via videoconferencing on Friday.

N95 masks may be the most effective at reducing the spread of the novel coronavirus, according to a study by researchers, including those from the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), which suggests that any mask is better than no mask at preventing COVID-19.

Over 3.04 crore N95 masks, more than 1.28 crore PPE kits and over 10.83 crore HCQ tablets have been distributed among the states, union territories and central institutions, free of cost by the central government since March 11, said the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare on Thursday.

The S.N. Bose National Centre For Basic Sciences, which comes under the Department of Science and Technology, has developed an active respirator mask with attached exhalation valve and suspended particulate matter filter for comfortable and hygienic breathing.

An ozone-based decontamination device, Chakr DeCoV, to enable safe reuse of N95 masks has been developed by an incubated startup of Indian Institute Of Technology or IIT Delhi. The device has been developed keeping in view the high reliability of healthcare workers on these masks in fight against the coronavirus.

Chakr Innovation, an Indian Institute of Technology Delhi startup, will launch its N95 mask disinfect technology at an online panel discussion and launch event "Sustainability in the times of Pandemic: Decontamination and Reuse of N95 Masks for a Healthier Planet".

CEAT Tyres has now announced its foray into personal protective equipment business with the launch of GoSafe S95 face masks in India.