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SC hears pleas seeking directions over shortage of PPE kits for healthcare
Updated : 6 years, 1 month ago IST
New Delhi [India], April 8 (ANI): The Supreme Court on Wednesday heard a batch of petitions over the "shortage of personal protective equipment (PPE) for medical professionals" in the wake of coronavirus spread and seeking directions to avail WHO-approved protective gears.
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Punjab's textile firms develop PPE, hazmat suits amid COVID19 crisis
Updated : 6 years, 1 month ago IST
Ludhiana (Punjab) [India], April 8 (ANI): At a time when the medical specialists, health workers, policemen and other allied workers are lacking high-quality protective gear in their battle against COVID-19, the Punjab's textile industry has stepped forward to develop Personal Protective Equ
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Police welfare centre in Jammu manufacture protective gear including masks
Updated : 6 years, 1 month ago IST
Jammu ( Jammu and Kashmir) [India], April 7 (ANI): Police Welfare Centre in Jammu is engaged in making masks, and personal protective gear needed to protect police personnel deputed at hospitals and quarantine centres across the state.
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Priyanka Gandhi Vadra urges people to demand protective kits for medical w
Updated : 6 years, 1 month ago IST
New Delhi [India], April 7 (ANI): Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Tuesday urged people to raise their voice to demand protective gear for the medical professionals dealing with the coronavirus crisis in the country.
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Italy donated PPE to China; now China wants Italy to buy back the same PPE
Updated : 6 years, 1 month ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], April 5 (ANI): At the peak of the Covid-19 outbreak in China, Italy had donated Personal Protection Equipment (PPE) to China and now when Italy is in dire need of PPE, China wants to sell them to Italy, according to a report in the Spectator magazine.
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BBMP workers are using proper safety gear: Bengaluru Mayor
Updated : 6 years, 1 month ago IST
Bengaluru (Karnataka) [India], Apr 2 (ANI): Bengaluru Mayor M Goutham Kumar on Thursday refuted reports claiming that workers of the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagar Palike were working without proper safety gear.
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Chennai police officer uses 'Corona gear' to spread awareness
Updated : 6 years, 1 month ago IST
Chennai (Tamil Nadu) [India], Apr 2 (ANI): In order to ensure that people abide by the social distancing norm, Inspector Rajesh Kumar visited different markets in Villivakkam area of Chennai to spread awareness about the COVID-19 while wearing a coronavirus themed mask, shield, and mace, her
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South Western Railway gearing to convert 300 coaches into isolation wards
Updated : 6 years, 1 month ago IST
Hubballi (Karnataka) [India], Mar 31 (ANI): In a bid to increase the country's capacity for isolation facilities, the Railways is converting sleeper class coaches into isolation wards by modifying the coaches as per prototype issued by Railway Board to make them suitable to act as quarantine
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Doctors in Siliguri complain of poor quality COVID-19 protection gear
Updated : 6 years, 1 month ago IST
Siliguri (West Bengal) [India], Mar 31 (ANI): Doctors at the North Bengal Medical College, Siliguri on Tuesday claimed that they have been provided raincoats, sunglasses and masks made of bedsheets instead of the PPEs (Personal Protective Equipments) such as laboratory glasses and surgical/N
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Crew given substandard protective gear during COVID-19 rescue flights: Air
Updated : 6 years, 2 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Mar 31 (ANI): The Executive Pilots Association, Air India has in a letter to the Ministry of Civil Aviation (MoCA) said that pilots and cabin crew are given substandard ill-fitting Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) that tear easily on rescue flights.
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India expands its capacity for PPE kits, 12 domestic firms meet the nor
Updated : 6 years, 2 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Mar 31 (ANI): The central government is expanding its capacity to meet the demands of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) kits to meet the challenge posed by COVID19 and at least 12 Indian companies have also qualified the set parameters to manufacture personal protective
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Action taken against officials who sprayed disinfectant on migrant workers
Updated : 6 years, 2 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Mar 30 (ANI): After a video went viral in which officials wearing protection gear were spraying disinfectant on migrant labourers in Uttar Pradesh's Bareilly, the government on Monday said that action has been taken against them.
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