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Mansukh Mandaviya to hold virtual meeting with state health ministers toda
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday chaired a high-level meeting to review the status and preparedness of public health response to COVID-19 and emphasised the need for strengthened surveillance with a focus on genome sequencing and increased testing.
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China in a bind: Whether to recover economy or control Covid spike
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
Beijing is struggling to choose between economic recovery and Covid control and if China reimposes the 'Zero-Covid' policy to contain damages by upcoming Covid waves, there will be a huge impact on its economy. If not, people's lives will be in danger. It is a double whammy for the country,
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Karnataka to hold meet to assess Covid-19 preparedness
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
Speaking on Covid-19 preparedness of Karnataka, amid fear of a possible fourth outbreak in the country, state Health Minister K Sudhakar Rao on Thursday said an emergency meeting has been called under the chairmanship of Chief Minister Basavraj Bommai to discuss the state's preparedness.<
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Patna: Special arrangements being made at IGIMS amid fresh Covid surge
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
Amid a fresh global surge in Covid-19 cases, the Indira Gandhi Institute of Medical Sciences (IGIMS) Hospital in Patna stated on Thursday that it was focusing on making special arrangements for combating the disease.
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All instructions of Union govt to be followed strictly: Haryana Health min
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
Haryana Health Minister Anil Vij on Thursday said the Haryana Government will be abiding by all the instructions given by the Central government when it comes to tackling Covid-19.
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Blinken raises concerns over China's Covid surge, Taliban's ban on women's
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Thursday (local time) raised concern over the surging Covid cases in China, the Taliban banning women from universities and the ongoing Russia-Ukraine war.
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Jan Akrosh Yatra will continue until advisory is issued, says BJP hours af
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
Hours after announcing the cancellation of its 'Jan Akrosh Yatra' in wake of the global Covid surge and detection of a new Omicron strain in the country, the BJP's Rajasthan unit on Thursday said the yatra will continue unless an advisory is issued by the Centre and the state.
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China releases new guidelines on censorship of online comments and 'likes'
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
Amid anti-government views and posts in the wake of the massive public protests across the country over Covid lockdowns and a fresh outbreak, China released new guidelines on the censorship of online comments and 'likes', writes Thu Dao in the Indo-Pacific Center for Strategic Communications
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China: Shanghai hit by a surge in coronavirus cases
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
Shanghai, China's megacity with a 25 million-strong population has been hit by a surge in coronavirus cases, reported NHK World.
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"Your leader is breaking Yatra to holiday abroad...": Pralhad Joshi slams
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
Joshi responded to Jairam Ramesh's remarks that the government had suddenly agreed to curtail the session by a week so that "it's use of Covid-19 to defam and derail Bharat Jodo Yatra acquires a shade of respectability".
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Covid casts a shadow on year-end revelry at Kolkata's Park Street as cases
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
The global surge in Covid-19 cases has cast a long shadow on the Christmas and New Year at Kolkata's iconic Park Street this year. While the heritage street has continued to be at the heart of the city's nightlife, the alarm over the explosion of cases in neighbouring China and detection of
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"India needs to go back to COVID basics", says Dr Anil Goyal of Indian Med
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
"India needs to go back to COVID basics - testing, treating, tracing", said Dr Anil Goyal from Indian Medical Association.
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