In a bid to assess and manage the upsurge in measles cases in Mumbai, the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare has decided to depute a three-members high-level multi-disciplinary team in the city.

New Delhi [India], October 15 (ANI): Drugs Controller General of India (DCGI) on Saturday replied to World Health Organisation (WHO) and said as per the recently formed technical committee, the clinical features and the treatment received by the children as shared by WHO so far are inadequate to determine the aetiology.

New Delhi [India], August 3 (ANI): A day after a 35-year-old man of African origin with no recent history of foreign travel tested positive for Monkeypox in Delhi thereby taking the total count to 8 in the country, a top scientist has said that Indian Council of Medical Research's (ICMR) Viral Research and Diagnostic Laboratories (VRDL) has tested about a 100 samples till Wednesday morning.

Indore Dec 27 PTI The Indore health department in Madhya Pradesh has sent for tests samples of 164 people who came in contact with nine people found infected with the new Omicron variant of COVID-19 an official said on Monday Out of these 164 people if anyone tests positive for coronavirus then that persons sample will be sent to the National Centre for Disease Control for genome sequencing to ascertain if the person is infected with the Omicron variant Indores Chief Medical and Health Officer Dr B S Saitya said Of the nine people found infected with Omicron here after return from abroad seven have recovered and gone back home from hospital he said The other two patients are admitted in different hospitals here and their health condition is stable the official said In the last 24 hours 14 people tested positive for the coronavirus in Indore taking the districts infection tally to 153572 Out of them 1395 people have so far died due to viral infection he said PTI HWP MAS GK GK

Chandigarh Dec 26 PTI Two more people including an 80-year-old man were found to be infected with Omicron taking the total cases of the latest variant of coronavirus reported in the city so far to threeOf the three cases two have been discharged and there is now only one active Omicron case in the city according to an official statementIt stated that samples of five family contacts of the previous Omicron positive case were sent for genome sequencing to the National Centre for Disease Control in DelhiTwo of these were found to be positive for the Omicron variant it saidOf these two the 80-year old male suffers from hypertension However he is asymptomatic and has been isolated in a hospital the statement saidIt said the octogenarian was tested on December 24 and was found positive for the omicron variant He will be re-tested on January 1 the statement saidThe other Omicron positive case was a 45-year-old man He tested negative for coronavirus on December 24 and was discharged it saidNotably a20-year-old man who had come from Italy to meet his relatives had tested positive for Omicron on December 12 He was the first patient of the new COVID-19 variant in ChandigarhFollowing this five of his relatives were tested Two of them were found omicron positive while reports of genome sequencing of the remaining three persons were pending PTI CHS VSD NSD NSD

New Delhi Oct 31 PTI Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya will hold a meeting with the Delhi government on Monday to review the dengue situation in the national capital and discuss ways on how the Centre can assist in curbing the surge in cases Dengue has witnessed a surge in dengue cases and Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya will review the situation with the Delhi government and also provide assistance in curbing the rise in cases an official source said Officials from the National Centre for Disease Control and National Vector Borne Disease Control Programme will also be present in the meeting The national capital has seen a surge in dengue cases Delhi has reported over 1000 cases of dengue this year with more than 280 cases logged in the last week according to a civic report released on Monday last week Of the total number of dengue cases this season 665 were recorded in the first 23 days of this month alone The city recorded its first death due to the vector-borne disease this season on October 18 PTI PLB ANB ANB ANB

New Delhi Sep 25 PTI In total 28000 samples will be collected for the latest Covid serosurvey making it the largest exercise in the national capital that seeks to determine the prevalence of antibodies among the populace Delhi Health Minister Satyendar Jain said on SaturdayThe survey got underway on Friday amid fewer COVID-19 cases being reported in the city for many weeks nowAccording to sources vaccination history will be collected from the participants of the survey A large segment of the city population has already received anti-coronavirus vaccine dosesThe previous survey was conducted a few months ago when Delhi was reeling under the brutal second wave of the pandemic The exercise was impacted by the second wave and its results were not officially published by the authoritiesThe city government has termed the latest round of the sero-survey as the sixth in the seriesJain on Saturday told reporters that a total of 28000 samples will be collected as part of the sixth round of the serological surveyDelhi has 272 municipal wards plus eight under the Delhi Cantonment Board From each of these wards 100 samples will be collected So it will be by far the largest such exercise he saidThe samples will be collected in a week It will take another week to prepare the report Jain addedThe Delhi Health Department in a statement said It is one of the biggest serological surveys and we are hoping for a more accurate and positive report after the survey is over Jain said that experts expect to find high seropositivity in this surveyAlso the exercise is taking place at a time when a large segment of the population has been vaccinated against COVID-19Delhi has a population of over 2 crore spread across 11 districtsAccording to Delhis vaccination bulletin issued on Friday over 167 crore doses have been administered to date and it includes over 11 crore first doses and over 51 lakh second dosesThe fifth sero-survey which was conducted earlier this year found that over 56 per cent of Delhis population was exposed to Covid As part of thesurveywhich had ended around January 21 samples were collected from over 25000 people from various districts across the cityExperts say herd immunity is said to have been developed in a population segment if 50-60 per cent are found to have the presence of anti-bodies in aseroprevalence surveyThe first seroprevalence survey conducted last year from June 27-July 10 by the Delhi government in association with the National Centre for Disease Control had used 21387 samples and found that around 23 per cent of the people surveyed had exposure to the novel coronavirusThe exercise in August 2020 showed 291 per cent of people had coronavirus antibodies In the surveys of September and October last year the figures stood at251 per cent and 255 per cent respectivelyThe exercises have been undertaken for a comprehensive assessment of the COVID-19 situation in Delhi and to formulate strategies based on its findings PTI KND NSD NSD

New Delhi Sep 25 PTI In total 28000 samples will be collected for the seventh Covid serosurvey making it the largest exercise in the national capital that seeks to determine the prevalence of antibodies among the populace Delhi Health Minister Satyendar Jain said on SaturdayThe survey got underway on September 24 According to sources vaccination history will be collected from the participants of the survey A large segment of the city population has already received anti-coronavirus vaccine dosesThe previous survey was conducted a few months ago when Delhi was reeling under the brutal second wave of the pandemicJain on Saturday told reporters that a total of 28000 samples will be collected as part of the seventh round of the serological surveyDelhi has 272 municipal wards plus eight under the Delhi Cantonment Board From each of these wards 100 samples will be collected So it will be by far the largest such exercise he saidThe samples will be collected in a week It will take another week to prepare the report Jain addedDelhi has a population of over 2 crore spread across 11 districtsAccording to Delhis vaccination bulletin issued on Friday over 167 crore doses have been administered to date and it includes over 11 crore first doses and over 51 lakh second dosesThe fifth serosurvey had found that the prevalence of coronavirus antibodies was over 50 per cent According to experts herd immunity is said to have been developed in a population segment if 50-60 per cent are found to have anti-bodies in a serosurveyThe first sero-prevalence survey conducted last year from June 27-July 10 by the Delhi government in association with the National Centre for Disease Control had used 21387 samples and found that around 23 per cent of the people surveyed had exposure to the novel coronavirusThe exercise in August 2020 showed 291 per cent of people had coronavirus antibodies In the surveys of September and October last year the figures stood at251 per cent and 255 per cent respectivelyThe exercises have been undertaken for a comprehensive assessment of the COVID-19 situation in Delhi and to formulate strategies based on its findings PTI KND NSD NSD

Kozhikode (Kerala) [India], September 8 (ANI): A total of 68 people are under isolation for Nipah virus in Government Medical College in Kozhikode district of Kerala, said Kerala Health Minister Veena George on Wednesday.

The samples of eight people who came in contact with a 12-year-old boy who died of Nipah virus infection in Kerala have returned negative, state Health Minister Veena George said. The samples were sent to the National Institute of Virology (NIV) in Pune. “It’s a moment of relief that the results of those who were […]