National Centre for Disease Control News

The Union health ministry has directed airport and port health officers to be vigilant. Cases of Monkeypox have been reported from the UK, the USA, Portugal, Spain, and some other European countries.

Mandaviya requested the states to accelerate the pace of vaccination of the 15-17 years age group. The Union Health Minister also said that testing should be ramped up in the States where it has gone down.

Health ministers of Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Kerala, Telangana, Lakshadweep, Tamil Nadu, Puducherry and Andaman and Nicobar Islands will participate in the video conferencing with the Union Health Minister. 

The NCDC top expert said that the emergence of a new variant can't alone bring the third wave of infections. Dr Singh said that COVID-19 will start becoming endemic in the next six months in India.

Nipah infections are usually confined to small clusters or areas. "Intensive contact tracing" and quarantine of all primary contacts were the two main steps to be taken to ensure effective control over spread of the infection.

A 35-year-old became the youngest to have succumbed to the infectious respiratory disease at Safdarjung Hospital.

The outbreak of Nipah virus in Kerala has so far claimed three lives.

WHO committee called an emergency meeting in Geneva today on the response to the Zika virus and will decide whether to designate the mosquito-borne virus ? which has been linked to serious birth defects a global emergency.  

With spurt in dengue cases in the national capital, authorities are planning to deploy more doctors and technicians at tertiary care hospitals to deal with the situation.