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Tejasvi Surya distributes free tabs to 250 kids who lost a parent to COVID
Updated : 3 years, 8 months ago IST
Bengaluru (Karnataka) [India], October 23 (ANI): A total of 250 school children who had lost a parent during the COVID-19 were gifted with free tablets, school bags and a year's worth of stationery during Member of Parliament Tejasvi Surya's 'Bengaluru South School Leaders' Summit' in the ci
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Daily use of Cholesterol-lowering medicine related to a decrease in COVID-
Updated : 3 years, 8 months ago IST
New Orleans [US], October 23 (ANI): A research of over 38,000 people found that commonly used cholesterol-lowering statins may decrease the risk of mortality and the severity of COVID-19 disease.
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"Mama is with them..," Shivraj Singh Chouhan's Diwali with Covid orphans
Updated : 3 years, 8 months ago IST
Bhopal (Madhya Pradesh) [India], October 22 (ANI): Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan on Saturday said that he would celebrate Diwali at his house with children who lost their parents during Covid-19 pandemic on October 23.
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New XBB Covid variant is immune evasive says WHO's Soumya Swaminathan
Updated : 3 years, 8 months ago IST
Pune (Maharashtra) [India], October 21 (ANI): With India reporting a highly infectious new COVID-19 variant, World Health Organization Chief Scientist Soumya Swaminathan on Friday said that there were over 300 sub-variants and XBB being a recombinant virus is a matter of concern.
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West Bengal's Champahati firecracker market limping back to business after
Updated : 3 years, 8 months ago IST
Champahati (West Bengal) [India], October 21 (ANI): Champahati, one of the largest wholesale firecracker hub in West Bengal, which was badly affected due to lockdowns during the COVID-19 pandemic over the past two years is gradually slowly limping back to business.
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Production of HPV vaccine for cervical cancer to start in first quarter of
Updated : 3 years, 8 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], October 21 (ANI): The production of India's first indigenously developed quadrivalent Human Papillomavirus (HPV) "CERVAVAC" vaccine, for the prevention of cervical cancer, by the Serum Institute of India will start in the first quarter of 2023 which got delayed due to C
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SII stopped production of Covishield vaccine since December 2021, says CEO
Updated : 3 years, 8 months ago IST
Pune (Maharashtra) [India], October 20 (ANI): Chief Executive Officer of Serum Institute of India (SII), Adar Poonawalla, on Thursday said that the medical firm stopped the production of the Covishield vaccine since December 2021.
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Delhi government lifts Rs 500 fine for not wearing face masks in public
Updated : 3 years, 8 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], October 20 (ANI): The Delhi Government announced on Thursday that no penalty will be levied on people for not wearing face masks in public places in the national capital. The government, however, advised the public to continue wearing masks in crowded public places.
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Must follow COVID-appropriate behaviour, high-risk patients can get seriou
Updated : 3 years, 8 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], October 19 (ANI): With India reporting a highly infectious new COVID-19 variant, former Director of Delhi AIIMS, Dr Randeep Guleria on Wednesday urged the common people to follow COVID-appropriate behaviour.
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Staggering backsliding across Women's, Children's and Adolescents' Health
Updated : 3 years, 8 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], October 19 (ANI/PNN): A new UN report, titled Protect the Promise, shows that women's and children's health has suffered globally, as the impacts of conflict, the COVID-19 pandemic and climate change converge with devastating effects on prospects for children, young people
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TN: Barium nitrate, cracker ban hits Sivakasi traders; 40 pc dip in produc
Updated : 3 years, 8 months ago IST
Sivakasi (Tamil Nadu) [India], October 19 (ANI): Firecracker manufacturers in Tamil Nadu's Sivakasi, who were thinking of a flourishing business this Diwali after a gap of two years because of COVID-19, are witnessing a loss due to the blanket ban on crackers in many states and the Supreme C
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"Festive season critical period for COVID surge...": Dr Naresh Trehan
Updated : 3 years, 8 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], October 19 (ANI): Dr Naresh Trehan, Chairman and MD of Medanta Hospital on Wednesday said that the upcoming festival season is a critical period for a surge in COVID-19 cases, as the disease hasn't gone yet.
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