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Chile reports 5,176 new daily COVID-19 cases
Updated : 5 years, 1 month ago IST
Santiago [Chile], May 27 (ANI/Xinhua): Chilean Health Minister Enrique Paris reported on Wednesday 5,176 new COVID-19 infections in the last 24 hours, for a total of 1,344,618 cases.
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Karnataka to have new discharge policy for COVID patients
Updated : 5 years, 1 month ago IST
Bengaluru (Karnataka) [India], May 27 (ANI): Karnataka Health Minister Dr K Sudhakar on Wednesday said the state will have a new COVID-19 discharge policy and post-COVID precautions in view of the rising cases of Black Fungus infection.
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'Incorrect data, send your team for probe': Chhattisgarh Minister refutes
Updated : 5 years, 1 month ago IST
Raipur (Chhattisgarh) [India], May 25 (ANI): Chhattisgarh Health Minister TS Singh Deo on Wednesday dismissed the Centre's claim that the state was reporting a high wastage of COVID-19 vaccines.
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'Politics on corpses, Congress style': Harsh Vardhan hits back at Rahul Ga
Updated : 5 years, 1 month ago IST
New Delhi [India], May 26 (ANI): In a sharp attack on Congress leader Rahul Gandhi over his tweet on a New York Times report on India's COVID-19 figure, Union Health Minister Dr Harsh Vardhan on Wednesday said that the former trusts New York more than Delhi, adding that he spoke of vultur
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Black fungus classified as notified disease in Maharashtra
Updated : 5 years, 1 month ago IST
Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], May 25 (ANI): Maharashtra Health Minister Rajesh Tope on Tuesday said that the state government has classified black fungus as a notified disease.
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Karnataka Health Minister condemns attack on female doctor on COVID duty
Updated : 5 years, 1 month ago IST
Bengaluru (Karnataka) [India], May 25 (ANI): Karnataka Health Minister K Sudhakar on Monday condemned the attack on a female doctor, who was on COVID-19 duty the previous day, and said it is a punishable offense in which the perpetrators could be given a prison sentence of five years.
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111 black fungus cases reported in Punjab so far
Updated : 5 years, 1 month ago IST
Chandigarh (Punjab) [India], May 25 (ANI): Punjab Health Minister Balbir Singh Sidhu on Monday informed that a total of 111 cases of black fungus have so far been reported from several parts of the state and an expert group has finalised the treatment protocols for the disease.
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Black fungus: Haryana gets 550 vials of Amphotericin B from Centre
Updated : 5 years, 1 month ago IST
Chandigarh (Haryana) [India], May 24 (ANI): Haryana Health Minister Anil Vij on Monday informed the state has received 550 vials of Amphotericin B, a drug used to treat black fungus, from the Centre and more will be received today.
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Harsh Vardhan calls continuous decline in India's COVID tally a 'positive
Updated : 5 years, 1 month ago IST
New Delhi [India], May 24 (ANI): Union Health Minister Dr Harsh Vardhan on Monday termed the continuous decline in COVID cases in India as a "positive sign", adding that it is the eighth day in succession when the country is having less than 3,00,000 daily new cases.
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Bring centralised COVID vaccine procurement, allocation policy: Delhi govt
Updated : 5 years, 1 month ago IST
New Delhi [India], May 24 (ANI): Amid the shortage of COVID vaccines in several parts of the country, Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia on Monday wrote to Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan urging the Centre to come out with a centralised vaccine procurement and allocation polic
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Dharmendra Pradhan thanks PM Modi, Dr Harsh Vardhan for approval of oxygen
Updated : 5 years, 1 month ago IST
New Delhi [India], May 24 (ANI): Minister of Steel, Petroleum and Natural Gas Dharmendra Pradhan on Sunday thanked Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union Health Minister Dr Harsh Vardhan for sanctioning PSA oxygen plants in eight districts of Odisha through the PM Cares fund.
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Haryana makes requisition for 12,000 Amphotericin-B injections from Centre
Updated : 5 years, 1 month ago IST
Chandigarh (Haryana) [India], May 24 (ANI): Haryana Health Minister Anil Vij on Sunday said the state has made a requisition of 12,000 injections of Amphotericin-B used for treating black fungus from the Centre.
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