Lav Agarwal

Lav Agarwal, Joint Secretary in the Union Health Ministry, today said no state, except one, had reported any oxygen-related deaths amid the Covid pandemic. The states were specifically asked for this data after the question was raised in Parliament.

Tokyo Games: The decision was intimated in an official letter by Lav Agarwal, Joint Secretary in the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare after the Indian Olympic President Narinder Batra had earlier in the day requested the government.

No case of Lambda variant of SARS-CoV-2 has been found in India so far, the government said. Responding to a question at a press briefing, Joint Secretary in health ministry, Lav Agarwal, said Indian SARS-CoV-2 Genomics Consortium is monitoring it.

Eighty per cent of COVID-19 cases in India are reported from 90 districts, of which 14 are in the northeastern states, the Union Health Ministry said on Thursday.

Lav Agarwal, who has been leading the central government's news conferences on COVID-19 over the last six months as joint secretary of the Union Health Ministry, has tested positive for the coronavirus, the bureaucrat announced on Twitter on Friday.

A central team is visiting Bihar today to assess the state's coronavirus preparedness amid the pandemic. The visit by the three-member team led by Joint Secretary Lav Agarwal comes amid allegations of poor handling of the COVID-19 situation by the Nitish Kumar government. The state reported over 1,700 cases on Saturday.

A central team, led by Joint Secretary in the Health Ministry Lav Agarwal, will visit Gujarat, Maharashtra and Telangana between June 26 and 29 to coordinate with state officials in strengthening COVID-19 management efforts in those areas, the ministry said on Thursday.

The restrictions in the country after May 3 should not be seen as an extension of the lockdown but a lifting of it, the Union Health Ministry said on Monday. On May 1, the Union Home Ministry had extended the lockdown for two more weeks, but allowed relief in non-hotspot zones. Responding to a question at the daily news briefing of the health minis...

The number of COVID-19 patients in India rose to 21,393 this morning, according to Health Ministry data. A total of 1,409 new cases and 41 deaths have been reported in the last 24 hours; 681 have died due to the highly infectious disease in India since the pandemic reached the country. The number of patients who recovered from COVID-19 stands at 4,...

Nearly 650 coronavirus cases reported over the last two days are linked to the religious gathering of the Islamic sect Tablighi Jamaat in Delhi, the government said today. "647 coronavirus positive cases found in last two days are linked to Tablighi Jamaat congregation," said Lav Agarwal, a senior health ministry official. That constitutes 28 per c...

The government has denied that the actual number of coronavirus cases in India is being underreported or suppressed, as suggested by experts who have voiced concerns about low testing.

Lav Agarwal, Joint Secretary in the Union Health Ministry, today said no state, except one, had reported any oxygen-related deaths amid the Covid pandemic. The states were specifically asked for this data after the question was raised in Parliament.

Tokyo Games: The decision was intimated in an official letter by Lav Agarwal, Joint Secretary in the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare after the Indian Olympic President Narinder Batra had earlier in the day requested the government.

No case of Lambda variant of SARS-CoV-2 has been found in India so far, the government said. Responding to a question at a press briefing, Joint Secretary in health ministry, Lav Agarwal, said Indian SARS-CoV-2 Genomics Consortium is monitoring it.

Eighty per cent of COVID-19 cases in India are reported from 90 districts, of which 14 are in the northeastern states, the Union Health Ministry said on Thursday.

Lav Agarwal, who has been leading the central government's news conferences on COVID-19 over the last six months as joint secretary of the Union Health Ministry, has tested positive for the coronavirus, the bureaucrat announced on Twitter on Friday.

A central team is visiting Bihar today to assess the state's coronavirus preparedness amid the pandemic. The visit by the three-member team led by Joint Secretary Lav Agarwal comes amid allegations of poor handling of the COVID-19 situation by the Nitish Kumar government. The state reported over 1,700 cases on Saturday.

A central team, led by Joint Secretary in the Health Ministry Lav Agarwal, will visit Gujarat, Maharashtra and Telangana between June 26 and 29 to coordinate with state officials in strengthening COVID-19 management efforts in those areas, the ministry said on Thursday.

The restrictions in the country after May 3 should not be seen as an extension of the lockdown but a lifting of it, the Union Health Ministry said on Monday. On May 1, the Union Home Ministry had extended the lockdown for two more weeks, but allowed relief in non-hotspot zones. Responding to a question at the daily news briefing of the health minis...

The number of COVID-19 patients in India rose to 21,393 this morning, according to Health Ministry data. A total of 1,409 new cases and 41 deaths have been reported in the last 24 hours; 681 have died due to the highly infectious disease in India since the pandemic reached the country. The number of patients who recovered from COVID-19 stands at 4,...

Nearly 650 coronavirus cases reported over the last two days are linked to the religious gathering of the Islamic sect Tablighi Jamaat in Delhi, the government said today. "647 coronavirus positive cases found in last two days are linked to Tablighi Jamaat congregation," said Lav Agarwal, a senior health ministry official. That constitutes 28 per c...

The government has denied that the actual number of coronavirus cases in India is being underreported or suppressed, as suggested by experts who have voiced concerns about low testing.