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Coronavirus LIVE: Global cases rise to 2,636,989; death toll at 184,186
Coronavirus world tracker: Total number of coronavirus cases in India has reached 18,658, and the global tally stands at 2,482,272. Stay with Business Standard for Covid-19 corona LIVE updates
We'll come out stronger from this situation: Infosys CEO Salil Parekh
Parekh said that as the situation improves, the company is 'extremely comfortable that we will emerge stronger'
Policy dilemma: Is the Covid-19 pandemic a demand or supply shock?
In the absence of clarity about the impact of this crisis on demand and supply, any measure undertaken presents the possibility of proving to be eminently wrong when clarity eventually emerges
Pandemic, lockdown to impact profitability of domestic logistics operators
Revenue seen declining by 6-8 per cent weak freight availability, fleet utilisation
Covid-19: Wipro Consumer Care fast-tracks launch of health-related products
According to reports, the Indian hand hygiene market is expected to cross Rs 2,000 crore by 2025 registering a compounded annual growth rate of more than 9 per cent
AIIMS deploys robots to help medical staff in the war against Coronavirus
The applications range from sanitising the floors without human intervention to enabling doctors to monitor and interact with contagious Covid-19 patients remotely
Covid-19 a wake-up call, says Ratan Tata in outreach to slum dwellers
Tata said while slums are blamed as the cause of current problem, slum-dwellers are not being properly taken care of
Centre forms a high-level task force on coronavirus vaccine, drug testing
The task force would also form clinical cohorts, which would focus on long-term follow up of the disease and its management
Using telemedicine to get critical medical advice in times of the lockdown
All you need is a smart phone to start consulting health specialists over video call, phone call, whatsapp, and other applications. And it does not burn a hole in your pocket
Covid-19: Govt unlikely to exempt GST on masks, ventilators, and PPEs
GST exemption on such items would jeopardise the interest of the industry and would not result in any significant gains to consumer
Genes2Me to deliver 3 mn rapid test kits in coming weeks: CEO Neeraj Gupta
The first phase of our collaboration with Livzon revolves around bringing these kits to India and delivering them to the government within the shortest span of time, he said
States start imposing price caps on Covid-19 tests done by private labs
Industry feels it is time to discuss the cost of the tests with Indian Council of Medical Research so that quality isn't compromised
Govt lifts curbs on exports of formulations made from Paracetamol
The government on March 3 had put export restrictions on 26 pharma ingredients and medicines, including paracetamol
Covid-19: India receives 500,000 antibody testing kits from China
Government has received two types of kits from Guangzhou Wondfo and Zhuhai Livzon to see antibodies in Covid patients
Early lockdowns in India may flatten Covid-19 curve: Nimhans virologist
In a Q&A, V Ravi says at some later stage two-thirds of the population will have gotten Covid-19 but that stage many would have recovered without even knowing they had been infected
650,000 medical kits to fight Covid-19 dispatched from China: Indian envoy
Two major consignments of the medical kits were reported to have been sent to India from China earlier as part of the efforts to step up testing especially in hotspots during the ongoing lockdown in t
Experts say up to 15% Covid-19 patients may also suffer kidney damage
Continuous Renal Replacement Therapy (CRRT) a term used for a collection of acute dialysis techniques can support these patients for 24 hours in a day
Plea to nationalise healthcare sector during coronavirus 'misconceived': SC
A bench of Justices Ashok Bhushan and S Ravindra Bhat, which heard the matter through video-conference, said such a direction cannot be passed by the court
Coronavirus: J&K cases cross 200-mark with 23 fresh detections
There are 197 active cases at present in the union territory
IIT Kanpur develops low cost personal protection kit to fight Covid-19
These low-cost kits are made of non-porous material and even a small or medium scale factory can manufacture it
