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Centre plans to face COVID-19 third wave with Rs 20,000-cr cheque

The package will focus on strengthening healthcare infrastructure including augmenting dedicated treatment facilities, ramping up hospital beds, bolstering procurement of essential medical equipment and drugs

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B.1.617.2 becoming dominant COVID-19 variant in India

B.1.617.2 becoming dominant COVID-19 variant in India
As of May 7, India sequenced 1,124 samples of this variant with a cumulative prevalence of 15 per cent. As of May 16, the UK showed the highest sequences detected at 4,314 cases but the cumulative prevalence rate was lesser than in India, at 6 per cent
BusinessToday.In | May 24, 2021 | Updated 12:27 IST
COVID-19 crisis: B.1.617.2 variant has been found in 48 countries
As cases spread in India, the sub-lineage of B.1.617, B.1.617.2, is beginning to eclipse other variants including the Kent variant, B.1.1.7 that originated in the UK. Kerala, Andhra Pradesh, Telangana and Karnataka has seen cases of B.1.617.2 spread wide. Uttar Pradesh, Delhi, Gujarat, Maharashtra, Puducherry and Bihar have also shown more cases of the new sub-lineage, B.1.617.2.

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India Inc to the rescue! How Tata, RIL, Adani & others are helping fight Covid-19

India Inc to the rescue! How Tata, RIL, Adani & others are helping fight Covid-19
COVID-19 pandemic: From supplying oxygen to arranging for hospital beds, India Inc has stepped up to help the country in the hour of need
Anwesha Madhukalya | May 19, 2021 | Updated 19:47 IST
How India Inc is helping amid the COVID-19 pandemic
India's corporate class is supplying oxygen, arranging for hospital beds, donating funds and vaccinating their employees under the corporate social responsibility (CSR) initiatives amid the second wave of coronavirus. Reliance Industries, Adani Group, Tata Sons, Maruti Suzuki, Mahindra and Mahindra, and Hyundai India have also donated funds as well as arranged for supplies of COVID-19 amenities.

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Tamil Nadu clarifies list of essential industries allowed to operate amid COVID-19 lockdown

Tamil Nadu clarifies list of essential industries allowed to operate amid COVID-19 lockdown
Food related, food processing industries including food and poultry, pets and animal husbandry, all export units, units which have export commitments or export orders and their vendor units providing inputs to such industries are allowed to operate
Joe C Mathew | May 13, 2021 | Updated 17:25 IST
Essential industries allowed to function in Tamil Nadu amid lockdown
Guidance, the industrial guidance and export promotion agency of Tamil Nadu state government, has prepared clear set of charts for easy understanding of the industries that can continue to function during the statewide lockdown that is in force now. Confusion over the industries that are permitted or not permitted to function has been one of the major irritants for businesses in most states that have gone into COVID-19 related lockdown in the country.

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Hospitals may seek contact details of kin, friend to hand over children as fatalities increase

The ministry has also implemented a centrally sponsored scheme called Child Protection Services along with state governments and union territories to provide institutional and non-institutional care

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'Disheartening to see mockery of pilots': Air India pilots say won't work without vaccination

'Disheartening to see mockery of pilots': Air India pilots say won't work without vaccination
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'No lockdown; division of country into zones': Lancet task force suggests measures to fight COVID-19

'No lockdown; division of country into zones': Lancet task force suggests measures to fight COVID-19
COVID-19 in india: Places that have a rate of increase of more than 5 per cent and test positivity ratio is more than 10 per cent with less than 40 per cent available ICU beds can be categorised as hotspots, said the Lancet panel
BusinessToday.In | May 3, 2021 | Updated 16:29 IST
Coronavirus in India: Lockdown not an option, said Lancet task force
The Lancet India Task Force on COVID-19 has suggested certain measures in order to fight coronavirus in the country. It has suggested a 'containment measures checklist' for the central government. It said that these measures must be implemented beyond the "current binary discussion on a lockdown". Among a host of suggestions, the panel said that lockdown is not an option.

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'Countries must share vaccine tech; no space for vaccine nationalism': Nirmala Sitharaman

'Countries must share vaccine tech; no space for vaccine nationalism': Nirmala Sitharaman
"Countries will have to be open about sharing vaccine-based technologies. The TRIPS agreement will have to be looked at in the context of the pandemic," said Nirmala Sitharaman
BusinessToday.In | May 3, 2021 | Updated 18:02 IST
Nirmala Sitharaman says no space for vaccine nationalism
Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said on Monday that countries must share vaccine-based technologies with each other. The FM said that there is no space for vaccine nationalism. She also said that the Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) agreement must be looked at amid the ravaging coronavirus pandemic.

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India records 3.8 lakh new Covid-19 cases, 3,498 deaths

India records 3.8 lakh new Covid-19 cases, 3,498 deaths
India's case positivity rate remains well above 20 per cent, which is one of the highest in the world
BusinessToday.In | April 30, 2021 | Updated 10:51 IST
India reports 3,86,452 new COVID-19 cases, 3,498 deaths and 2,97,540 discharges in the last 24 hours, shows the Union health ministry data.
Total cases: 1,87,62,976
Total recoveries: 1,53,84,418
Death toll: 2,08,330
Active cases: 31,70,228
Total vaccinations: 15,22,45,179
The total number of recoveries also saw the biggest single-day rise of nearly 3 lakh on Thursday. India's recovery rate now stands at 82 per cent and the case positivity has been at 20.1 per cent.
As per the official data, nearly 35 per cent of India's total Covid-19 cases have been added in the month of April only.

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COVID-19 crisis: US govt asks citizens to leave India as soon as possible

COVID-19 crisis: US govt asks citizens to leave India as soon as possible
The US State Department added that there are 14 direct daily flights between India and the US as well as other services that connect through Europe
BusinessToday.In | April 29, 2021 | Updated 09:32 IST
US issues advisory to its citizens in India
The US government has told its citizens in India to leave the country as soon as possible because of the current coronavirus situation. The Department of State issued a Level 4 advisory -- the highest issued by them -- asking citizens "not to travel to India or to leave as soon as it is safe to do so".

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