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With single-day spike of 61,537 cases, India's COVID tally surges
Updated : 4 hours, 29 min ago IST
New Delhi [India], August 8 (ANI): With a single-day spike of 61,537 new COVID-19 cases and 933 deaths in the last 24 hours, India's COVID-19 tally surged to 20,88,612 on Saturday.
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Delhi HC allows using dummy phone number for COVID-19 testing of h
Updated : 23 hours, 59 min ago IST
New Delhi [India], Aug 7 (ANI): The Delhi High Court on Friday gave its nod for the use of "9999999999" as a dummy phone number and address of labs or hospitals for COVID-19 testing of homeless mentally ill patients after the submissions were made by the Indian Council for Medical Research (
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ICMR invites Covid dedicated centres to join national clinical reg
Updated : 1 day, 10 hours ago IST
New Delhi [India], Aug 7 (ANI): The Union health ministry, Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) and All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) have proposed a National Clinical Registry for COVID-19 (NCRC).
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Karnataka gets its first mobile COVID-19 testing labs
Updated : 1 day, 23 hours ago IST
Bengaluru (Karnataka) [India], August 6 (ANI): Karnataka's Medical Education Minister Dr K Sudhakar inaugurated state's first Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR)-approved mobile COVID-19 testing labs.
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2,21,49,351 samples tested for COVID-19 till August 5: ICMR
Updated : 2 days, 3 hours ago IST
New Delhi [India], Aug 6 (ANI): A total of 2,21,49,351 samples for COVID-19 have been tested across the country as of Wednesday, said the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) today.
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Rapid Antigen tests comprise about 25-30 per cent of total COVID-1
Updated : 3 days, 14 hours ago IST
New Delhi [India], Aug 5 (ANI): Out of total COVID-19 tests being conducted every day across the country, about 25-30 per cent tests comprise of rapid antigen tests, informed the union health ministry on Tuesday. So far, the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) has reported over two
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India's three COVID-19 vaccine candidates at different phases of c
Updated : 3 days, 16 hours ago IST
New Delhi [India], August 4 (ANI): While as many as 141 COVID-19 vaccine candidates are being studied by the scientists across the globe, India has three vaccine candidates which are in different phases of the clinical study, top ICMR scientist (Prof) Balram Bhargava informed on Tuesday.
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ICMR chief directs states to analyse COVID-19 data to know epidemi
Updated : 3 days, 16 hours ago IST
New Delhi [India], Aug 4 (ANI): The Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) has directed all state governments to "analyse the COVID-19 data to know the epidemic," said ICMR chief (Prof) Dr Balram Bhargava on Tuesday.
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COVID-19: Three Indian vaccines in different phases of clinical te
Updated : 3 days, 20 hours ago IST
New Delhi [India], Aug 3 (ANI): At present, country has three Indian COVID-19 vaccines which are in different phases of clinical testing, said Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) on Tuesday.
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Ban unregistered online health service aggregators from collecting
Updated : 4 days, 1 hour ago IST
New Delhi [India], Aug 4 (ANI): A public interest litigation (PIL) was moved in the Delhi High Court on Tuesday seeking directions to the Central government, Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) and Delhi government to immediately ban unregistered online health service aggregators from
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India's COVID-19 testing hits record high as over 6.6 lakh tests c
Updated : 4 days, 7 hours ago IST
New Delhi [India], Aug 4 (ANI): India has recorded highest single-day testing by conducting over 6.6 lakh tests to diagnose Covid-19 in last 24 hours, said the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MoHFW) on Tuesday.
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Difficult to predict if India will see second wave of COVID-19: I
Updated : 4 days, 21 hours ago IST
New Delhi [India], August 3 (ANI): ICMR chief Dr Balram Bhargava said has said that it is difficult to predict whether or not India will see a second wave of COVID-19 infections and there will be smaller peaks at different times due to varied geography of the country
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