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OFB comes up with 2-bed tents for screening, quarantine
Updated : 6 years, 1 month ago IST
New Delhi [India], April 11 (ANI): As the nation is battling against COVID-19, the Ordnance Factory Board (OFB) has found a cost effective solution for isolation wards with the manufacture of two-bed tents with medical equipment for screening, isolation and quarantine, the Defence Ministry s
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35 train coaches converted into COVID-19 isolation wards at Howrah Tikiapa
Updated : 6 years, 1 month ago IST
Howrah (West Bengal) [India], April 9 (ANI): As many as 35 train coaches have been converted into isolation wards to keep coronavirus patients and those suspected of infection in West Bengal's Howrah Tikiapara.
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South Central Railways converts coaches to isolation wards for COVID-19 pa
Updated : 6 years, 1 month ago IST
Hyderabad (Telangana) [India], April 9 (ANI): The South Central Railway (SCR) has decided to convert its passenger coaches into isolation units to keep the COVID-19 patients.
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6 coaches tranformed into isolation wards at Jammu Railway station to trea
Updated : 6 years, 1 month ago IST
Jammu and Kashmir [India], April 8 (ANI): Six coaches have been tranformed into isolation wards by Railways authorities at Jammu Railway station to treat the COVID-19 patients as the total number of active coronavirus cases in the Union Territory has climbed to 135.
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COVID-19: Railways converts 2,500 coaches as isolation wards
Updated : 6 years, 1 month ago IST
New Delhi [India], April 6 (ANI): The Indian Railways has converted 2,500 coaches into isolation wards, achieving almost half of its target of making 5,000 such coaches, as part of government's efforts to combat coronavirus.
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Coaches transformed into isolation wards in Patna and Bhubaneswar by India
Updated : 6 years, 1 month ago IST
Patna/Bhubaneswar (Bihar/Odisha) [India], Apr 4 (ANI): Coaches have been transformed into isolation wards by the Indian Railways in Patna and Bhubaneswar to fight the COVID-19 pandemic.
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World Bank extends USD 1 billion emergency funding to India amidst COVID-1
Updated : 6 years, 1 month ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Apr 3 (ANI): The World Bank on Thursday (local time) approved USD 1 billion emergency financing to India which will support better screening of coronavirus patients, contact tracing, and laboratory diagnostics. The fund will also be used for procurement of personal
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Northern Railway converts 40 coaches into isolation wards, manufactures 60
Updated : 6 years, 1 month ago IST
New Delhi [India], April 2 (ANI): The Northern Railway has said it has converted 40 coaches into isolation wards for COVID-19 patients and has manufactured 325 litres of hand sanitisers and 600 face masks.
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Coronavirus: Railways converting 312 coaches into isolation wards
Updated : 6 years, 1 month ago IST
Hubballi (Karnataka) [India], Apr 2 (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 to make them suitable to act as quarantine hubs.
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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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Combating COVID-19: States, UTs take initiatives at Panchayat level
Updated : 6 years, 1 month ago IST
New Delhi [India], Mar 31 (ANI): As part of efforts to contain the spread of coronavirus, states and Union Territories have taken several steps at the panchayat level including setting up of isolation wards, laying thrust on social distancing and increased sanitation of public places.
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COVID-19: More than 6500 hospital beds of Railways to be made available as
Updated : 6 years, 1 month ago IST
New Delhi [India], Mar 30 (ANI): To prevent the spread of coronavirus, Indian Railways is making an all out effort to supplement the health care efforts of the Central government. The Railways has modified passenger coaches as isolation coaches and equipped the existing Railway hospitals to
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