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WHO South-East Asia region launches regional forum for primary healthcare-
Updated : 3 years, 6 months ago IST
The World Health Organisation South-East Asia Region and partners on Tuesday launched the South-East Asia Regional Forum for Primary Health Care-Oriented Health Systems.
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Locally-grown school meals can be beneficial for children, farmers, climat
Updated : 3 years, 6 months ago IST
School closures during the COVID-19 pandemic brought a decade's growth in school feeding programmes to a dramatic halt, leaving about 370 million school children without access to their one reliable meal a day, according to UNICEF.
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No legal compulsion to get COVID-19 vaccination, Centre tells SC
Updated : 3 years, 6 months ago IST
The Centre on Tuesday clarified to the Supreme Court that there was no legal compulsion to get a vaccination for COVID-19.
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China should respect people's right to peaceful protest: Human Rights Watc
Updated : 3 years, 6 months ago IST
Over the weekend, thousands of people in Shanghai, China's biggest city and financial center, began publicly protesting the government's strict Covid-19 measures and denouncing the Chinese Communist Party's authoritarian rule.
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New analysis finds pandemic didn't dampen deforestation
Updated : 3 years, 6 months ago IST
Despite the massive upheavals in the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic, deforestation globally proceeded more or less as expected from the trends established over the last 15 years, according to a recent study from researchers at the Alliance of Bioversity International and CIAT.
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Gut microbes disturbed by COVID-19 infection, antibiotics: Research
Updated : 3 years, 6 months ago IST
In an intensive look at the effects of the virus causing COVID-19 on patients' microbiome - the collection of microorganisms that live in and on the human body - Rutgers scientists found that acute infection disrupts a healthy balance between good and bad microbes in the gut, especially with
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Amid protests, China says fight against Covid 'will be successful'
Updated : 3 years, 6 months ago IST
Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Zhao Lijian's statement comes a day after protests erupted in Shanghai against China's 'Zero Covid' policy to contain the virus.
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Demonstrators protesting against COVID-19 restrictions clash with police i
Updated : 3 years, 6 months ago IST
Hundreds of demonstrators and police have clashed in Shanghai as protests over China's severe COVID-19 restrictions continued into the third day and spread to several other cities.
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Uyghur community holds protests in Turkey against Chinese govt
Updated : 3 years, 6 months ago IST
In Turkey, a protest was carried out by Uyghur activists in Istanbul at 2:00 am in the early hours of November 26 near the historic Hagia Sophia mosque where Uyghurs gathered braving the cold shivering winter, according to media reports. Nearly a hundred activists including Uyghur groups.
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China: Departing Foxconn employees trapped at train stations, clashes with
Updated : 3 years, 7 months ago IST
Violent worker protests erupted at the world's largest iPhone factory in central China as authorities at the Foxconn plant struggle to contain a COVID-19 outbreak while maintaining production ahead of the peak holiday season.
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Tibetans tortured, harassed, jailed under Covid restrictions
Updated : 3 years, 7 months ago IST
Extreme Covid restrictions by Chinese authorities are making living conditions worse in Tibet.
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Covid in China: Protests erupt in Xi Jinping's alma mater Tsinghua Univers
Updated : 3 years, 7 months ago IST
In defiance of China's zero-Covid policy, hundreds of students on Sunday protested at President Xi Jinping's alma mater, Tsinghua University.
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