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Pakistan govt asks national and provincial health authorities to look for
Updated : 3 years, 9 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], May 30 (ANI): As the Pakistan Health Ministry confirmed the lack of facilities for diagnostic tests for the Monkeypox virus the federal government on Monday issued a high alert in the country.
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Man succumbs to West Nile fever in Kerala's Thrissur, State Health Ministe
Updated : 3 years, 9 months ago IST
Thiruvananthapuram (Kerala) [India], May 30 (ANI): Hours after Kerala on Sunday reported the death of a person due to West Nile fever, Kerala Health minister Veena George said that controlling the growth of mosquitoes and carrying out source destruction are essential to prevent this illness.
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Russian Parliamentary Commission plans to discuss info on US biolabs in Ni
Updated : 3 years, 9 months ago IST
Moscow [Russia], May 29 (ANI/Sputnik): The Russian Parliamentary Commission for investigating the work of US biological laboratories in Ukraine is planning to discuss information from the Russian Defense Ministry regarding alleged US laboratories in Nigeria, the country from where the curren
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Chinese university's online swim test sends netizens into meme fest
Updated : 3 years, 9 months ago IST
Beijing [China], May 28 (ANI): After China's Shanghai University announced to move the swimming test online amid the COVID-19 outbreak, netizens went into a meme fest, with one of the students donning swimming goggles and a hat to jump from his nightstand onto the bed to enact swimming mo
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No diagnostic facility in Pakistan to detect Monkeypox
Updated : 3 years, 9 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], May 28 (ANI): Amid the rising risk of a monkeypox outbreak in Pakistan, the Pakistan Health ministry on Saturday said that the country has no facility for diagnostic tests for the virus.
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Tanzania issues alert over monkeypox as outbreak reported in Europe
Updated : 3 years, 9 months ago IST
Dar es Salaam [Tanzania], May 26 (ANI/Xinhua): Tanzanian health authorities late Wednesday issued an alert over the reported outbreak of monkeypox in some countries in Europe.
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Monkeypox not as contagious as COVID-19, says expert
Updated : 3 years, 9 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], May 25 (ANI): Monkeypox outbreak has been witnessed in nearly 20 countries, however, no suspected cases of the disease have been detected in India so far, referring to which, a health expert on Wednesday said that it is not as contagious as COVID-19 that wreaked havoc a
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Cholera outbreak in Balochistan, 85 pc without clean drinking water: Repor
Updated : 3 years, 9 months ago IST
Quetta [Balochistan], May 24 (ANI): Pakistan's Balochistan province is reeling under a massive cholera outbreak as 85 per cent of the population is deprived of clean drinking water.
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Biden hails PM Modi's pandemic response, hits out at China
Updated : 3 years, 9 months ago IST
Tokyo [Japan], May 24 (ANI): Drawing a parallel between "India's success with China's failure" to handle the pandemic, US President Joe Biden praised Prime Minister Modi, during a closed session of the Quad Summit in Tokyo on Tuesday, for handling Covid-19 outbreak in a democratic manner.
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Rajya Sabha Secretariat returns to biometric attendance after 2 years gap
Updated : 3 years, 9 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], May 23 (ANI): Biometric attendance system, which was suspended following the COVID outbreak, has now resumed in the Rajya Sabha Secretariat after two years.
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CPI MP urges Union Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw to restore rail fare concessi
Updated : 3 years, 9 months ago IST
New Delhi, [India], May 23 (ANI): Communist Party of India (CPI) Rajya Sabha MP from Kerala Binoy Viswam urged Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw to restore the concession in the Railways for senior citizens which remained suspended since the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Saudi Arabia bans travel to 16 countries including India over new Covid ou
Updated : 3 years, 9 months ago IST
Jeddah [Saudi Arabia], May 22 (ANI): Following the re-outbreak of Covid-19 and the rapid surge in the number of daily Covid infections over the past few weeks, Saudi Arabia has banned its citizens from traveling to sixteen countries, including India.
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