Announcing results from its interim analysis of phase 3 trial data from UK and Brazil, AstraZeneca plc on Monday said its covid-19 vaccine was found 90% effective.
Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on Wednesday said people above sixty years and pregnant women will get coronavirus vaccine on priority along with health workers in the state.
Doctors and health workers at Hindu Rao Hospital continued their strike over non-payment of salaries in Delhi on October 27.
On the occasion of Navratri festival, patients perform 'Garba' with health workers at the Nesco COVID-19 Center in Mumbai's Goregaon on October 19.
Mental health problems such as PTSD, anxiety and depression are common among healthcare staff during and immediately after pandemics, according to researchers from the University of East Anglia (UEA) in the UK.
Health workers were trained in Electronic Vaccine Intelligence Network in Jammu and Kashmir's Poonch.
Contractual health workers working under Siliguri Municipal Corporation on August 24 held protest demanding immediate release of their delayed salary.
Karnataka Association of Resident Doctors staged black badge protest in Bengaluru city on July 24.
The Indian Medical Association (IMA) has said that at least 99 doctors have succumbed to coronavirus in India while over 1,300 have been infected by COVID-19. Maharashtra is the worst-hit state in terms of the percentage of doctors who died after getting infected to coronavirus.
170 persons found positive included ASHA workers, anganwadi workers, police personnel and health workers. Till Friday evening, Odisha had recorded 5962 coronavirus cases. Out of these 1654 are active cases.
The King George's Medical University (KGMU) in Lucknow has started anti-body testing, becoming the first medical facility to start this.
Guwahati restaurant owner has designed a special robot amid COVID crisis to assist health care workers.
A large number of COVID-19 affected health personnel getting isolated for treatment and their close contacts undergoing quarantine affects the health/ hospital service delivery.
A doctor has questioned in the Supreme Court the Centre's new Standard Operating Procedure for front line COVID-19 healthcare workers by which it has ended the 14-day mandatory quarantine for them.
Kolkata's AMRI Hospital CEO Rupak Barua raised concerns on returning of health staffs who belong to North eastern states.
The Delhi High Court Thursday dismissed a plea alleging failure of authorities to protect the rights of healthcare professionals involved in treating COVID-19 patients in hospitals here by ignoring their health and not providing them complete personal protective equipment (PPE) kits.
Delhi AIIMS Resident Doctors Association President Dr Adarsh Pratap Singh said that in Delhi-NCR, doctors and health workers are being asked to stay at their work places and not to return to their homes.
Armed Forces jets, choppers on Sunday carried out a flypast parade to honour, salute the spirit of coronavirus warriors including healthcare workers, doctors, police personnel, volunteers among others who have been risking their lives ever since the outbreak. Take a look at some of the unseen breathtaking photos from Sunday's flypast.
The Bhim Army district president Upkar Bawra, has been arrested and sent to jail for allegedly assaulting a medical staff at district hospital late on Thursday. The incident took place at district hospital of Muzaffarnagar after an argument over medical aid to people who had come from the Purkaji area in the district.
Telugu superstar Mahesh Babu shared a photo-collage of health workers on Instagram and said that everyone should be kind and courteous towards medical workers, whom he lovingly called 'superheroes.'
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