Amid continued stand-off with China, the Leh administration is augmenting oxygen supply in the forward areas by adding new plants, a move that will boost the fight against Covid-19 in ‘zero-mile’ villages and far-flung settlements…
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Districts that were severely impacted by the second Covid wave may not see an equally intense third wave, an analysis by the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) has said. Experts from the top science…
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Concerns over dependence on home isolation and failure to impose micro-containment zones have prompted the Centre to advise that 46 districts in 10 states reporting above 10% positivity rate need to impose strict restrictions on…
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The phase 3 of state-wide cross sectional serosurvey done in July by the Directorate of Public Health and Preventive Medicine done surveyed 26,610 people from 888 clusters across districts.
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Districts reporting a Covid-19 positivity rate of over 10 per cent in the last few weeks need to consider strict restrictions to prevent or curtail people’s movement and crowding, the Centre told 10 states witnessing…
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Newly-appointed Karnataka Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai on Saturday said the Centre has agreed to increase the monthly supply of Covid-19 vaccines to the state, from 63-64 lakh doses to 1 crore doses for the month…
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The Centre has released 15 per cent of the amount under the Covid-19 Emergency Response and Health System Preparedness (ECRP-II) Package to the states to improve health infrastructure, Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya said on Saturday.…
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Two Pakistani intruders were shot dead by the Border Security Force along the international border in Punjab’s Tarn Taran district, an official of the BSF said on Saturday.
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India reported 41,649 new Covid cases on Saturday, a drop of over 2,500 from yesterday’s figure. The active caseload has gone up to 4,08,920, or 1.29 per cent of the total cases. Another 593 deaths…
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