Ten more districts in five states have joined 44 others that have not reported new Covid-19 cases for 14 days or longer amid signals that some states are “flattening” their epidemic curves even th...

The high court on Thursday expressed dissatisfaction with the report filed by the Bengal government on the steps taken to conduct rapid coronavirus tests and to ensure the safety of doctors and other ...

As India’s coronavirus count crossed 5,000 on Wednesday, health authorities identified hotspots in select locations, surveillance staff carried out door-to-door surveys in others, and doctors prepar...

Residents of coronavirus hotspots who develop flu-like symptoms should seek medical attention and tests for Covid-19 without delay, a pulmonary medicine specialist and member of the national task forc...

India’s health research agency on Tuesday suspended for two days the use of rapid antibody test kits for the coronavirus that the country had procured from China despite warnings about their unrelia...

Bengal, among all states, has tested the fewest number of people for the coronavirus but has the second-highest positivity rate after Delhi, possibly because its screening process is focused on high-r...

Calcutta Municipal Corporation personnel will try to visit every home in the city from this week to seek out anyone suffering from fever in an exercise aimed at detecting any silent Covid-19 carrier.C...

Patients with mild and moderate respiratory symptoms who are currently not screened for the novel coronavirus infection under the existing testing criteria could spread the virus, public health expert...

The Centre on Tuesday told the Supreme Court that it had left it to asymptomatic incoming passengers to make use of a helpline and inform officials if they developed symptoms of Covid-19.During the he...

India’s department of health research on Tuesday “appealed” to private laboratories to offer tests for the novel coronavirus “at no cost” to patients, surprising some labs that pointed out t...