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Covid deaths increase in Kanpur's rural areas
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
Kanpur Dehat (Uttar Pradesh) [India], May 12 (ANI): As India reels under the effects of the second wave of COVID-19, the situation in rural areas is even grimmer. The villagers of Uttar Pradesh's Kanpur Dehat have witnessed a massive surge in deaths claiming that all the recently deceased pe
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Indore's rural areas seeing COVID-19 positivity rate of over 20 pc
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
Indore (Madhya Pradesh) [India], May 12 (ANI): Rural areas in Indore are witnessing a COVID-19 positivity rate of more than 20 per cent, according to RS Mandloi, Indore Additional Collector.
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50-bed COVID-19 care centre to set up at Ludhiana's Sant Ishar Singh Memor
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
Ludhiana (Punjab) [India] May 12 (ANI): To augment the health infrastructure especially in the rural hinterland which has been witnessing a spurt in COVID-19 infections, the district administration on Tuesday stated that a 50-bedded Covid Care Centre will start its operations at Sant Ishar S
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Haryana govt to give fund to villages to curb spread of COVID-19 in rural
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
Chandigarh [India], May 10 (ANI): Haryana Deputy Chief Minister Dushyant Chautala on Monday said every village in the state will be given fund to curb the increasing number of COVID-19 cases in rural areas.
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After cities, now villages too at the mercy of God, says Rahul Gandhi as C
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], May 9 (ANI): Taking a veiled dig at the BJP-led Central government as the second wave of the Covid-19 pandemic is now spreading fast in rural areas, Senior Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Sunday said that not only cities, villages too are also left at the mercy of God.<
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COVID-19: Centre releases Rs 8923.8 crore to panchayats in 25 states
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], May 9 (ANI): The Department of Expenditure has released an amount of Rs 8,923.8 crore in advance to 25 states for providing grants to the Rural Local Bodies (RLBs) in view of the COVID-19 pandemic, the ministry of finance informed on Sunday.
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Amid Covid surge in rural areas, Haryana to convert Govt schools, AYUSH ce
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
Chandigarh (Haryana) [India], May 8 (ANI): Concerned over the rise in number of COVID-19 cases in Haryana's rural areas, Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar on Saturday said that government schools and AYUSH centres will be converted to isolation centres.
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Allahabad HC seeks COVID-19 status report in rural areas from state govt
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
Allahabad (Uttar Pradesh) [India], May 8 (ANI): The Allahabad High Court on Friday sought the status of COVID-19 situation in the countryside from the Uttar Pradesh government and also the measures it is considering to curb the surge in the spread of the infection there.
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Karnataka Cong MP writes to PM, seeks urgent steps to combat COVID-19 in s
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
Bengaluru (Karnataka) [India], May 7 (ANI): Congress MP from Bengaluru Rural DK Suresh on Thursday, while criticising Karnataka government's handling of COVID-19, wrote to Prime Minister Narendra Modi seeking immediate and urgent steps to safeguard people of Karnataka from the pandemic.
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COVID-19 infection spreading to rural areas, problems will increase: Punja
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
Chandigarh (Punjab) [India], May 4 (ANI): Punjab Health Minister Balbir Singh Sidhu on Tuesday said that the coronavirus infection has started to spread to the rural areas because of which the positivity rate and the number of deaths are increasing in the state.
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Telangana govt forms panel to probe into Etela Rajender's illegal lands de
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
Hyderabad (Telangana) [India], May 3 (ANI): Telangana government on Monday constituted a three-member panel led by Panchayat Raj and Rural Development Commissioner M Raghunandan Rao to inquire into the allegations of land grabbing by former minister Etela Rajender.
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Punjab Police busts illicit liquor manufacturing unit in Amritsar, five he
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
Chandigarh/Amritsar (Punjab) [India], May 2 (ANI): The Amritsar Rural Police has busted another illicit liquor manufacturing unit and arrested five persons during a raid at village Boparai Khurd in Lopoke here.
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