covid-19

Co-founded by Prabhdeep Singh, medical startup StanPlus offers a 15-mins ambulance delivery service to patients and even operates its own fleet of Advanced Life Support (ALS) ambulances.

Glenmark launches India's first COVID-19 nasal spray - FabiSpray. The treatment claims to check the virus in the nose itself. It has been approved for Indian markets.

Thanks to IIT-Bombay PhD student Tejasvi Chauhan's efforts of setting up a telecom tower in the remote mountain village of Baag in Himachal Pradesh, children can now attend online classes.

Soumajit Bhowmik, CEO at Styched, speaks of developing a mobile application that allows tailors in Delhi and Bengaluru to find stitching tasks online.

KNYA Med went from making PPEs for government hospitals to supplying eco-friendly medical scrub suits, face masks, lab coats and more to healthcare workers across 650 locations.

Dr Vikram Saini, Associate Professor, Laboratory of Infection Biology and Translational Research, Department of Biotechnology, AIIMS in New Delhi, and his team have developed a new Viral Transport Medium kit for COVID-19 testing.

Click here to see if you can get the COVID booster shot, which has been approved for certain groups across India. Check your eligibility and things to know here.

Dr Sunil Kumar Hebbi from Bengaluru is a messiah for those who cannot afford quality health care. For over a decade he has organised 800 medical camps and treated 1.2 lakh patients from his savings.

Dr Sushila Kataria from Medanta, Gurugram, explains how the Delta and Omicron variants of the Coronavirus differ, and how identifying the right strain early can benefit the treatment protocol.

IAS, IPS, IFS: Meet the 12 officers whose exemplary work in 2021 ensured that we picked them for our 'Excellence in Public Service' yearender list.