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  Pre-symptomatic COVID-19 cases allowed home isolation: Ministry issues new guidelines

  India | May 11, 2020 12:36 IST

  The Ministry of Health and Family Affairs (MoHFW) has issued revised guidelines for the home isolation of patients with COVID-19 symptoms. The new guidelines are applicable for patients who have either very mild coronavirus symptoms or are in the pre-symptomatic phase. The Health Ministry has reiterated that those patients who fall into such category and have adequate self-isolation facility at their residence will have the option for home isolation.

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  More central teams for 10 states witnessing high COVID-19 cases: Health ministry

  India | May 09, 2020 23:32 IST

  ​The health ministry has decided to deploy central teams in 10 states that have witnessed or are witnessing high COVID-19 cases to assist their health departments to facilitate management of the outbreak.

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  Need to ensure smooth running of non-COVID healthcare services: Health Ministry

  News | May 05, 2020 21:46 IST

  Speaking about the importance of non-COVID-19 healthcare services, Health Ministry informed that they will also ensure people continue to receive such services at both government and private facilities.

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  India registers highest single-day spike in coronavirus cases: Health Ministry

  News | May 05, 2020 21:46 IST

  Reviewing coronavirus situation in the country, Health Ministry informed that India saw the highest single-day spike so far, with 3,900 new cases and 195 deaths in last 24 hours. "Total number of positive cases of COVID-19 is 46,433.

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  Total number of COVID-19 cases in the country is now 46,433, says Health Ministry

  News | May 05, 2020 18:16 IST

  Total number of positive cases of COVID-19 is 46,433. In last 24 hours there have been 3,900 new cases, 195 deaths and 1,020 people have recovered: Health Ministry

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  1,993 COVID-19 cases in last 24 hours, total infections at 35,043: Health Ministry

  News | May 01, 2020 20:27 IST

  The Health Ministry on May 01 informed that a total of 1,993 COVID-19 positive cases were reported in last 24 hours across the country, taking the tally of confirmed coronavirus cases to 35,043.

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  Bengaluru Urban, Rural, Mysuru in Karnataka to remain red zones post May 3. Check full list

  India | May 01, 2020 18:47 IST

  Karnataka has over 500 positive coronavirus cases including 21 deaths while 229 patients have recovered. As per the health ministry, the state has three districts which have been indentified as red zones, 13 as organge and 14 have been declared as green zones with no coronavirus cases. Check complete list.

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  Full list of 733 districts designated as red, orange and green zones for lockdown post May 3

  India | May 01, 2020 12:46 IST

  The health ministry has finalised the list of containment zones and decided all major metro cities across the country will remain as 'red zones' even after the lockdown ends on May 3. The ministry has divided 733 districts across India into red, orange and green zones.

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  COVID-19 cases cross 33000-mark, recovery rate improves to 25.19 percent : Govt

  News | April 30, 2020 21:04 IST

  The Joint Secretary of Health Ministry, Lav Agrawal, on April 30 briefed the 24 hours report of COVID-19 in the nation.

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  Coronavirus recovery rate in India improves to 25%: Health Ministry

  India | April 30, 2020 17:28 IST

  The Union Health Ministry in its daily press briefing on Thursday informed that the recovery rate of coronavirus cases in the country has improved from 13.06 per cent to 25 per cent in last 14 days.

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  Plasma therapy could be life-threatening if not used well, still experimenting: Health Ministry

  India | April 28, 2020 23:09 IST

  The plasma therapy being employed in hospitals across the country to treat the symptoms of coronavirus might be producing encouraging results, but it is still in its experimental stages and hasn’t been approved by ICMR

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  Home stay, Hydroxychloroquine and Aarogya Setu: New guidelines for mild symptoms of coronavirus

  India | April 28, 2020 12:06 IST

  Coronavirus in India: According to a new set of guidelines issued on Monday, the patient should be clinically assigned as a very mild case or pre-symptomatic case by the treating medical officer.

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  Over 5 lakh samples tested for coronavirus in India: ICMR

  India | April 23, 2020 15:10 IST

  India has so far done testing of over 5,00,542 samples for the suspected coronavirus exposure out of which 21,797 people have tested positive for COVID-19 by 9 am on Thursday, said the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR), India's leading medical research lab.

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  India's COVID-19 recovery rate is 17.47 per cent; 3,252 patients have been cured so far

  News | April 21, 2020 18:07 IST

  Till now, there are 18601 positive cases. So far, 3252 people have recovered including 705 people who recovered yesterday. This takes our recovery percentage to 17.48%: Health Ministry

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  ICMR asks states to avoid using rapid testing kits for 2 days

  India | April 21, 2020 18:53 IST

  Indian Council of Medical Research on Tuesday said that some variations were seen in rapid test kits and advised all stated to refrain from using rapid test kits for the next two days.

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  Containment operations to be scaled down if no secondary COVID-19 case for 4 weeks: Govt

  India | April 18, 2020 8:21 IST

  Containment operations will be scaled down if no secondary positive case of COVID-19 is reported from a quarantine zone for at least four weeks after the last confirmed test has been isolated and all his contacts have been followed up for 28 days, the Union Health Ministry said.

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  Only 4% odd tests turning COVID-19 positive in India

  India | April 17, 2020 8:33 IST

  The Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) has reported that 12,581 individuals have tested positive for coronavirus in India and 1,206 tested positive on Thursday.

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  No COVID-19 cases in 325 districts, 27 districts report zero cases in last two weeks

  India | April 16, 2020 19:38 IST

  Out of 720 districts in India, 325 districts are coronavirus free as no COVID-19 cases have been found in these districts so far.