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Aarogya Setu app is sophisticated surveillance system, raises privacy conc
Updated : 5 years, 10 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], May 2 (ANI): Congress MP Rahul Gandhi on Saturday said that the Aarogya Setu app is a sophisticated surveillance system, outsourced to a private operator with no institutional oversight and raises data security and privacy concerns.
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Combating COVID-19: India gets 7 metric tonnes of medical supplies from UA
Updated : 5 years, 10 months ago IST
Abu Dhabi [UAE], May 2: The United Arab Emirates (UAE) on Saturday sent a plane carrying seven metric tonnes of medical supplies to India to bolster the country's efforts to curb the spread of COVID-19.
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Combating COVID-19: ULBs, Health Dept ensuring essential services to citiz
Updated : 5 years, 10 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], May 1 (ANI): The Haryana government along with the Department of Urban Local Bodies (ULB) and Health Department are ensuring to provide essential services to the citizens in all 87 municipalities of the State during the coronavirus-induced lockdown.
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IIT Guwahati students design, develop low-cost intubation boxes
Updated : 5 years, 11 months ago IST
Guwahati (Assam) [India], April 30 (ANI): The Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Guwahati students have designed and developed low-cost intubation boxes.
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Combating COVID-19: India has provided 2.8 mn HCQ, 1.9 mn paracetamol tabl
Updated : 5 years, 11 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], April 30 (ANI): The Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) on Thursday said that India has provided 2.8 million hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) tablets, an anti-malarial drug, deemed useful in dealing with COVID-19, and 1.9 million paracetamol tablets as part of its assistance to oth
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Combating COVID-19: Doubling rate increases to 11 days
Updated : 5 years, 11 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], April 30 (ANI): The Union Health Ministry on Thursday said that doubling rate of COVID-19 cases in India has increased to 11 days while comorbidity was found in 78 per cent of the coronavirus deaths.
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Combating COVID-19: India's recovery rate further improves to 25.19 pc
Updated : 5 years, 11 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], April 30 (ANI): Six hundred and thirty COVID-19 patients have recovered in the last 24 hours, taking the recovery rate to 25.19 per cent in the country, said Lav Agarwal, Joint Secretary, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, here on Thursday.
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Combating COVID-19: Working with our friends in India among others to shar
Updated : 5 years, 11 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [US], April 30 (ANI): Laying emphasis on India-US cooperation to tackle the coronavirus and its impact, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Wednesday (local time) said that Trump administration is working with countries like Australia, India, Japan among others to share best
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Combating COVID-19: WHO to hold emergency committee meeting on Thursday
Updated : 5 years, 11 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], April 29 (ANI): The World Health Organisation (WHO) will convene an emergency meeting on coronavirus on Thursday, said its Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus on Wednesday.
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Combating COVID-19: Punjab CM announces to extend curfew for two more week
Updated : 5 years, 11 months ago IST
Chandigarh (Punjab) [India], April 29 (ANI): Punjab Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh on Wednesday announced to extend the curfew for two more weeks to check the spread of coronavirus in the State.
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Combating COVID-19: Kerala govt distributes Homeopathy medicine to boost i
Updated : 5 years, 11 months ago IST
Thiruvananthapuram (Kerala) [India], April 28 (ANI): The Kerala Government is giving a big push to the homeopathic medicine as an immunity booster and has distributed it to around 45 lakh people across the state. This comes as country reels under the surging coronavirus cases.
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Combating COVID-19: India gifts medical gloves to Sri Lanka
Updated : 5 years, 11 months ago IST
Colombo [Sri Lanka], April 27 (ANI): India on Monday gifted a consignment of medical gloves to Sri Lanka in a bid to assist the island nation in its fight against coronavirus.
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