TIRUPATI: Tirupati Balli MP Durga Prasad Rao (64), who recently became infected with the new coronavirus and was being treated in a private hospital in Chennai for multiple health ailments, suffered cardiac arrest and passed away on Wednesday. Balli Durga Prasad, hailing from a quiet Bhimavaram village in Nayudupet mandal …
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Nitin Gadkari tested positive for coronavirus Highlight Nitin Gadkari tweeted today that he tested positive for coronavirus He suggested that everyone in contact with him follow security protocol. Before him, at least 7 union ministers tested positive for coronavirus New Delhi: Union Minister Nitin Gadkari tweeted tonight that he tested …
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about the video Congressional leader Anand Sharma lashed out at the Modi government for handling the Covid crisis and raised several questions about Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan’s statement on the issue at Lok Sabha. Sharma questioned the government-imposed blockade and said what preparations had been made before the imposition …
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NEW DELHI: September is proving to be a bleak month for India in its fight against the coronavirus pandemic. According to data from Johns Hopkins University, the number of people who contracted the infection in the first half of the month was more than double the number of new infections …
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Restrictions on the export of medical supplies, including EPI coveralls, 2/3 layer masks and disinfectants, which are key in the fight against the coronavirus disease (Covid-19), have been lifted, said the Minister of Commerce and Industry of the Union, Piyush Goyal, on Wednesday. In a written response to the Lok …
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Russia Sputnik-V vaccine: 100 million doses of Sputnik-V vaccine to be sold to India (Representative) Moscow: Russia’s sovereign wealth fund has agreed to supply 100 million doses of its coronavirus vaccine, Sputnik-V, to Indian pharmaceutical company Dr Reddy’s Laboratories, the fund said on Wednesday, as Moscow accelerates plans to distribute …
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By: Desk Explained | New Delhi | Updated: September 16, 2020 7:37:30 am The AstraZeneca-Oxford vaccine was among the leading global candidates. AstraZeneca, which is creating a vaccine for the new coronavirus in partnership with the University of Oxford, halted its global vaccine trial on September 6 after a participant …
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NEW DELHI: A record 82,961 new Covid-19 recoveries were reported on Wednesday, nearly a quarter of them in Maharashtra alone, pushing the overall figures to close to 39.5 lakh and the recovery rate to 78.53 percent, showed data from the Ministry of Health. In its figures updated at 8 a.m. …
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In Dispatch 156, I wrote about why it didn’t make sense to use rapid antigen tests all the time, or to rely too much on them, as Delhi is still. In short, these tests return too many false negative results (identifying an infected person as not infected) to be reliable. …
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Tripura’s chief minister, Biplab Deb, had criticized state media for its coverage of Covid. Agartala: Days after Tripura’s chief minister, Biplab Deb, caused a furor by declaring that he would not “forgive” state media for their “confusing” coverage of the Covid crisis, he sought to clarify his comments. The Chief …
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