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COVID-19: Centre terms media reports claiming vaccination fraud as 'mislea
Updated : 4 years, 3 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], February 3 (ANI): Dismissing international media reports alleging a "vaccination fraud" in the country's health infrastructure, the Central government on Thursday clarified that such media reports are not only misleading but are completely ill-informed, and without any bas
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COVID-19: Centre requests States, UTs to accelerate second dose coverage a
Updated : 4 years, 3 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], February 2 (ANI): The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare on Tuesday requested States and Union Territories to direct concerned officials to accelerate the second dose coverage amongst due beneficiaries aged 15-18 years while ensuring that remaining beneficiaries for the
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COVID-19: Centre says tests declining amid rising cases, asks States, UTs
Updated : 4 years, 4 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], January 18 (ANI): The Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare on Monday wrote to all States and Union Territories and asked them "to immediately increase testing in a strategic manner keeping in view the trend of case positivity in specific areas".
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Precaution dose of COVID-19 vaccine will be same as previous shot: Centre
Updated : 4 years, 4 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], January 6 (ANI): Union Health Ministry in a letter to states on Thursday recommended that precaution dose for healthcare workers, frontline workers and senior citizens with co-morbidities will be the same as given previously.
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Centre asks States, UTs to set up COVID-19 control rooms amid surge in cas
Updated : 4 years, 4 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], January 6 (ANI): Amid a rise in COVID-19 cases across the country, the Centre on Thursday asked States and Union Territories to set up control rooms at district and sub-district levels to ensure ease of access to services for COVID management.
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Kerala reports 4,801 new COVID-19 cases
Updated : 4 years, 4 months ago IST
Thiruvananthapuram (Kerala) [India], January 5 (ANI): Kerala reported 4,801 new cases of COVID-19 during the last 24 hours, said the state health department on Wednesday.
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COVID-19: Centre assures genome sequencing machine to Jharkhand, says Stat
Updated : 4 years, 4 months ago IST
Ranchi (Jharkhand) [India], January 2 (ANI): The Jharkhand government had asked the Central government to provide a genome sequencing machine for state-run Rajendra Institute of Medical Sciences (RIMS) Hospital over which assurance has been given by Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya, s
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Cases with fever, sore throat, breathlessness should be tested for COVID-1
Updated : 4 years, 4 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], December 31 (ANI): Amid a rise in COVID-19 cases, the Centre on Friday called upon states and union territories to consider anyone with fever, headache, sore throat, breathlessness, body ache as a suspect case of COVID-19 and conduct tests.
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COVID-19: Centre issues guidelines for 'precaution dose', vaccination for
Updated : 4 years, 5 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], December 27 (ANI): The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare on Monday issued guidelines for COVID-19 vaccination of children between 15-18 years, and precaution dose to health care and front line workers, and those above the age of 60 with comorbidities.
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COVID-19: Centre propose fivefold strategy to states, UTs to tackle Omicro
Updated : 4 years, 5 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], December 23 (ANI): Centre propose a fivefold strategy for tackling the threat of COVID-19 variant 'Omicron', in a review meeting on Thursday over public health preparedness by States and Union Territories for fighting COVID19 and the Omicron variant.
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COVID-19: Centre advises states, UTs to emphasize on district level contai
Updated : 4 years, 5 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], December 11 (ANI): Centre has advised the states and Union Territories to emphasize on the district level measures for containment of COVID-19 clusters as 27 districts across 10 states/ UTs have been reporting high positivity rates in the past two weeks.
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If state government can generously compensate kin of COVID victims, so can
Updated : 4 years, 6 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], November 24 (ANI): Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot on Wednesday sided with Congress leader Rahul Gandhi's demand from the Centre to pay a compensation of Rs 4 lakh each to families of those who lost their lives due to COVID-19 and said that if a state government can
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