‘Centre, Japan sign loan agreement for AIIMS’
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Information was revealed in RTI reply
A loan agreement has been signed between the Government of India and the Government of Japan for setting up an All-India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) in Madurai, revealed a reply to a Right to Information Act query submitted by R. Pandiaraja, a social activist.
A source from the Health Department confirmed to
The Hindu that the loan agreement was signed between the two governments for the construction of the AIIMS in Madurai in the last week of March.
Second wave of COVID-19 in India
Print edition : April 23, 2021
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Evening prayers by the banks of the Ganga on the occasion of Mahashivratri on March 11 at the Kumbh Mela in Haridwar. Amid a surge in COVID-19 cases, the Uttarakhand government has issued a new standard operating procedure to contain the spread of the virus. Photo: PRAKASH SINGH/AFP
A wholesale vegetable market in Mumbai on April 1. Photo: SUJIT JAISWAL/AFP
Even as India is in the throes of a second wave, having failed to use testing as a means of checking the spread of the pandemic, all that the Central government has done is to emphasise “COVID appropriate behaviour” and place the onus on the States.
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Jammu Tawi, Apr 07: The central government on Wednesday said their first priority is to protect most vulnerable persons and there will be no COVID-19 vaccination for all age groups anytime soon.
While responding to the growing demands that COVID vaccination must be given to every age group, Rajesh Bhushan, Union Health Secretary said that the approach is that those vulnerable to mortality need to be covered at the earliest to protect them.
“We first want to reach to people who need vaccination and not to the one who demands,” he said adding that they have to focus on COVID appropriate behaviour and containment measures.
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Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray told Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday that the state was not behind in the fight against COVID-19, and urged him to confirm that there should be no politics in the effort.
He was speaking during a video-conference meeting with PM Modi to review the coronovirus situation in the country.
A day after his statement, Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan lashed out at the Maharashtra government, saying that it had “decisively cut” the virus-fighting effort across the country.
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Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray informed the Prime Minister on Thursday evening that the state administration has increased the number of Covid tests, and they are being expanded further. Thackeray requested an additional supply of vaccines as well as provision of oxygen and ventilators from other states, said a press statement issued by Chief Minister office.
The statement said, in a video conference with the Prime Minister Thackeray said vaccination could be further enhanced if a proposal sent by the state government to produce the vaccine at its Haffkine Bio-Pharmaceutical Corporation Ltd is approved soon.