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Robert Vadra donates 60 PPE kits to GIPMER doctors
Updated : 5 years, 11 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], April 18 (ANI): Businessman Robert Vadra on Saturday donated 60 personal protective equipment (PPE) kits to the Govind Ballabh Pant Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education and Research (GIPMER) to help doctors here fight the COVID-19.
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About 63,000 PPE kits from China fail quality test
Updated : 5 years, 11 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], April 17 (ANI): Around 63,000 Chinese-manufactured personal protective equipment (PPE) kits did not meet Indian standard criteria, said sources in the Union Health and Family Welfare Ministry on Friday.
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Hope foreign buyers will choose products certified by regulatory authoriti
Updated : 5 years, 11 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], April 17 (ANI): Reacting to reports of quality problems of some of the Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) recently imported from China to India, the Chinese Embassy here said that it hopes foreign buyers can choose products certified by Chinese regulatory authorities and
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DRDO clears air over testing of PPE, says it doesn't certify kits
Updated : 5 years, 11 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], April 16 (ANI): Clearing the air over the testing of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE), the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) on Thursday said that it does not certify kits provided to them for testing by any vendor.
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IndusInd Bank commits Rs 30 crore towards COVID -19 relief work
Updated : 5 years, 11 months ago IST
Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], April 16 (ANI): IndusInd Bank committed Rs 30 crore to fight against the COVID-19 pandemic on Thursday and said it has been working with government agencies across several states to provide relief efforts.
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Ordnance Factory Board's Tamil Nadu unit secures approval for manufacturin
Updated : 5 years, 11 months ago IST
Chennai (Tamil Nadu) [India], April 16 (ANI): The Ordnance Factory Board's Tamil Nadu unit has secured approval for manufacturing Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) required by the health professionals for protection from COVID-19.
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Railways to produce 1,30,000 medical protective coveralls to fight COVID-1
Updated : 5 years, 11 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], April 15 (ANI): The Railways has decided to produce over 30,000 Personal Protective Equipment coveralls in April and also plans to manufacture 1,00,000 of the same in May 2020 for medical and health-care personnel who get directly exposed to the COVID-19 disease when wo
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COVID-19: Doctors protest in PoK as govt fails to provide PPE kits
Updated : 5 years, 11 months ago IST
Muzaffarabad [PoK], April 13 (ANI): Doctors and paramedic staff in Pakistan occupied Kashmir (PoK) are protesting as they fear getting infected while treating COVID-19 patients because of lack of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) kits.
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ITBP jawans prepare mask, PPE kits for Rs 5, Rs 100 respectively
Updated : 5 years, 11 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], April 11 (ANI): The jawans of Indo Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) are preparing masks and personal protective equipment (PPE) kits with a nominal price tag of Rs 5 and Rs 100 respectively to fight COVID-19.
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COVID-19 claims 19 lives of UK NHS workers so far
Updated : 5 years, 11 months ago IST
London [UK], April 11 (Sputnik/ANI): A total of 19 National Health Service (NHS) workers in the United Kingdom has died after contracting COVID-19, UK Health Secretary Matt Hancock said on Saturday, adding that none of the deaths was linked to the shortages of personal protective equipment (
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Combating COVID-19: IAF lifts raw materials for PPE production by DRDO
Updated : 5 years, 11 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], April 11 (ANI): Amid the lockdown in wake of coronavirus outbreak, Indian Air Force (IAF) on Saturday flew dedicated sorties for Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) and airlifted around 9000 Kg of raw material from various nodal points for producing Person
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PoK, Gilgit Baltistan unprepared to handle COVID-19 outbreak
Updated : 5 years, 11 months ago IST
Washington/London (US/UK), April 11 (ANI): Lack of coronavirus testing laboratories, medical staff, and Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) kits in Pakistan occupied Kashmir (PoK) and Gilgit Baltistan are causes of major concern, say political activists even as the pandemic is set to flare u
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