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Meerut teens help people find COVID beds, oxygen supplies via social media
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
Meerut (Uttar Pradesh) [India], May 22 (ANI): During the second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, when hospitals were overwhelmed with admission requests and markets had a shortage of oxygen and necessary medicines, three teenagers from Uttar Pradesh started an initiative to facilitate verfied
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Probe ordered into Andhra 'ayurvedic Covid cure'; drug samples sent for an
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
Nellore (Andhra Pradesh) [India], May 22 (ANI): The Nellore District Administration on Friday stopped the distribution of a "herbal medicine" that is being given as a "cure for COVID-19" by an ayurvedic practitioner in Krishnapatnam village of Nellore's Krishnapatnam town.
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Uttarakhand govt issues SOPs to prevent black marketing of black fungus me
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
Dehradun (Uttarakhand) [India], May 22 (ANI): The Uttarakhand Government has issued Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) to prevent the black marketing of black fungus medicine keeping in view cases of the disease being reported across the country.
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Black fungus: Centre to ramp up production, availability of Amphotericin-B
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], May 21 (ANI): Ministry of Health and Family Welfare on Friday said the Central government will make proactive efforts for significantly ramping up domestic production of Amphotericin-B drug, an anti-fungal drug for the treatment of black fungus disease.
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COVID-19: Warehouse Traders Federation starts war rooms for oxygen, ration
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
Jammu (Jammu and Kashmir) [India], May 21 (ANI): While India grapples with the second wave of COVID-19, a traders federation in Jammu has established war rooms for oxygen, medicines and ration with the aim of helping help people amid the pandemic.
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Punjab: Health Department directed to ensure medicines for treatment of Bl
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
Chandigarh (Punjab) [India], May 20 (ANI): A day after declaring Black Fungus, also known as Mucor Mycosis, as a notified disease in Punjab, Chief Minister Capt Amarinder Singh on Thursday directed the Health Department to ensure that all necessary medicines are made available to every go
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Odisha Human Rights Commission seeks report on black-marketing of Oxygen,
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
Bhubaneswar (Odisha) [India], May 20 (ANI): Taking suo motu cognisance of media reports regarding black marketing of Oxygen and life-saving medicines, Odisha Human Rights Commission (OHRC) on Wednesday sought a report from the Chief Secretary and Additional Chief Secretary of Health and Fami
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India working with South Africa to address COVID-19 vaccines' accessibilit
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], May 19 (ANI): India has supplied medicines, vaccines and health-related equipment to Africa as it faces the coronavirus pandemic and is also working in partnership with South Africa to address the challenges of accessibility and affordability of COVID vaccines, External
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HC asks Delhi govt about black fungus medicine stocks, hearing to take pla
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], May 19 (ANI): The Delhi High Court on Wednesday asked the Delhi Government to inform it about the stocks of the medicine used for the treatment of Black Fungus.
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Scientists find new way of predicting COVID-19 vaccine efficacy
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
Canberra [Australia], May 18 (ANI): The early immune response in a person who has been vaccinated for COVID-19 can predict the level of protection they will have to the virus over time, according to analysis from Australian mathematicians, clinicians, and scientists, and published the journa
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Karnataka: BJP youth wing demands action against Congress youth wing for i
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
Bengaluru (Karnataka) [India], May 18 (ANI): BJP youth wing in Bengaluru in a letter to state drugs controller demanded action against Congress youth wing Karnataka president MS Raksha Ramaiah and other workers alleging that they are issuing medicine kits containing drugs that can be sold
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Pfizer, Moderna vaccines effective against Covid variants found in India:
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
New Delhi [India] May 18, (ANI): The Pfizer/BioNTech and Moderna coronavirus vaccines appear to protect against COVID variants B.1.617 and B.1.618 first identified in India, researchers have reported in a new pre-print paper, which has not yet been peer-reviewed, CNN reported.
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