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Punjab DGP announces welfare measures for police personnel on COVID-19 dut
Updated : 5 years, 11 months ago IST
Chandigarh (Punjab) [India], April 19 (ANI): Punjab DGP Dinkar Gupta on Sunday announced several protective and welfare measures for the police personnel on COVID-19 duty, and directed for non-deployment of cops over 55 or those with pre-existing medical risk on frontline jobs.
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COVID-19: Experts say face mask shortage led to significant loss of life i
Updated : 5 years, 11 months ago IST
Washington DC [USA], April 19 (ANI): A number of health experts have opined that the millions of face masks donated by the Trump administration to China earlier this year when coronavirus was raging in that country created a shortage of the protective gear, which probably contributed to a si
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K'taka orders 3 lakh PPE kits for healthcare warriors
Updated : 5 years, 11 months ago IST
Bengaluru (Karnataka) [India], April 19 (ANI): The Karnataka government on Saturday ordered 2 lakh Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) kits from DHB Global and 1 lakh from other major pharmaceuticals, for the healthcare warriors treating coronavirus patients.
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Delhi HC dismisses plea on PPE kits for pilots, crew members
Updated : 5 years, 11 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], April 19 (ANI): Delhi High Court on Saturday dismissed a plea seeking directions to the respondents to provide proper personal protective equipment (PPE) kits to the pilots and the other cabin crew members on board the flights, which are operating between India and foreign
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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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UK doctors continue to face protective equipment shortages
Updated : 5 years, 11 months ago IST
London [UK], April 18 (ANI): The doctors and healthcare workers in the United Kingdom are still working without the desired equipment to keep themselves safe from a likely transmission from a COVID-19 patient.
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Breastfeeding may lead to fewer human viruses in infants
Updated : 5 years, 11 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], April 18 (ANI): Even small amounts of breastmilk strongly influences the accumulation of viral populations in the infant's gut and provides a protective effect against potentially pathogenic viruses, suggests recent research that examined hundreds of babies.
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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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