VIETNAM NEWS DECEMBER 29
29/12/2020 16:54 GMT+7
HCM City to provide all public services online at level 4 by 2030
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Ho Chi Minh City has set a target to provide 100 percent of public services online at level 4 by 2030. Level 4 is the highest level of online public services, which allows users to fill and submit forms, and pay fees online.
In the first quarter of 2020, Ho Chi Minh City s authorities provided 668 online public administrative services at levels 3 and 4 in various fields, and more than 80 percent of local residents and organisations said they were satisfied with the services.
According to the city’s Department of Home Affairs, district and commune-level administrative units handled more than 84 million documents online in the last five years.
2020 Flashback: 12 stories, 12 months that changed India forever
2020 Flashback: 12 stories, 12 months that changed India forever
By any standards, 2020 will forever be remembered as the bearer of a global economic meltdown brought about by a deadly contagion the novel coronavirus. Here is an attempt to look back at events and stories that captured the attention of Indians this year.
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To describe 2020 as yet another year would be a great injustice. Almost a hundred years after the Spanish Flu instilled fear in the hearts and minds of people across the globe, regardless of their nationality or the colour of their skin, an unholy encounter between a bat and what is speculated to be a pangolin, pushed the human race to the brink of chaos in 2020.
The mystery disease of Eluru
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December 19, 2020 08:36 IST
With over 600 people being hospitalised after contracting a sudden, unknown illness and one dead, confusion and fear have prevailed in Eluru, Andhra Pradesh, this month. Appaji Reddem reports on the outbreak, the response and the possible causes
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The public gather at the enquiry counter of Eluru Government General Hospital.
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With over 600 people being hospitalised after contracting a sudden, unknown illness and one dead, confusion and fear have prevailed in Eluru, Andhra Pradesh, this month. Appaji Reddem reports on the outbreak, the response and the possible causes
New Delhi, India – Scientists have found nickel in milk samples taken from an area in India where hundreds of patients fell sick with a mysterious disease a week ago.
More than 600 people in Andhra Pradesh’s Eluru town fell ill, reporting nausea, seizures and fainting. Excessive amounts of lead and nickel were found in the blood samples of the patients.
One person died on December 7.
Two more patients admitted with symptoms of the disease died last week but local health officials said the deaths were not due to the “mystery illness” but other health complications.
A scientist at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) revealed that nickel was found in milk samples collected in Eluru town.
AIIMS, IICT rule in pesticides for Eluru mysterious disease DECCAN CHRONICLE.
Updated Dec 17, 2020, 10:24 am IST
NEER tested underground and surface waters and found that all metals are within permissible limits except mercury
A patient is assisted by others to get down from an ambulance at the district government hospital in Eluru, Andhra Pradesh state, India. (AP)
VIJAYAWADA: Pesticides could be a reason for outbreak of the mysterious disease in Eluru. This emerged during a video conference Chief Minister Y. S. Jagan Mohan Reddy had with experts from various fields. Incidentally, All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), Indian Institute of Chemical Technology (IICT) and other reputed institutions have confirmed that residues of pesticides could be the reason for such an outbreak.