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Rajya Sabha member, P. Chidambram took to Twitter to express his scepticism regarding the government's decision to vaccinate all above the age of 18 years. Chidambram tweeted that, "We welcomed the decision to vaccinate all above the age of 18 years. However, we have to caution the government that this decision brings with it huge responsibilities." Given the widespread complaints about the lack of supply of vaccines, he says that the availability of vaccines is the first and foremost requirement. He rendered government's claim regarding no shortage of vaccines as hollow. He raised concern regarding the adequacy of stocks of vaccines all over the country when more people will flock to hospitals for vaccination on May 1 and there will be a surge in the demand of the vaccine. "If pe...

As Covid-19 see a steep rise on a daily basis, the Jammu Kashmir administration on Saturday designated twenty-three hospitals as dedicated hospitals for treatment including fifteen in the Kashmir division and eight in the Jammu division respectively. In a notification, the deputy director of Planning Health and Medical Education Department said that the health institutions along with their bed capacity have been designated as dedicated Covid-19 hospitals. In Kashmir Division the hospitals include C.D. Hospital, Srinagar, NTPHC New Building Parisabad Budgam, MCH Kulgam, NTPHC New Building Pethkot Budgam, PHC Channapora Budgam, NTHPC Bandipora (Maternity Center Sanavni), CHC Dawar, Tibiya College Shivath Bandipora, CHC Hajin, Army Hospital JAKLI, Rangreth, Srinagar, JLNM Hospital, Kash...

In the wake of raging Covid-19 pandemic, prominent rights group National Confederation of Human Rights Organisations (NCHRO) on Friday demanded that the government should release all the political prisoners immediately. The group expressed concern over the report that Kerala journalist Siddique Kappan collapsed in the Mathura jail where he is being held. In a statement, NCHRO, General Secretary Prof.P.Koya said the government should consider the release of political prisoners who were allegedly implicated in false cases. Prof Koya said journalist Siddique Kappan was collapsed on April 21, 2021 in the Mathura jail where he has been held. Referring to media reports, he said Kappan was tested positive for COVID19. The jail authorities admitted him to the K.M. Medical College, which is a...

Amid the resurge of covid cases throughout India, Muslims from Mandideep area in Rasen district of Madhya Pradesh’s have converted 5-acres of Eidgah land and one greater premises to installation Covid Care centre. According to reports, the eid Gah has been converted int a 100-bed covid facility and any other location close to a graveyard may be used for 60 beds. Nearly three dozen volunteers have been readied at the centre for helping out people, Haji Sohail Khan stated, adding, “It is as much as district management to apply the distance as Covid Care Centre, a vaccination centre or for whatever to fight pandemic,” he added. The District collector of Raisen appreciating the initiative said that he has blanketed the location in his listing and could tell them while needed.

Two BJP MLAs who were being treated for Covid-19 died on Friday in Uttar Pradesh.buy Overnight Drugs generic buynoprescriptionrxxonline.net over the counter Both BJP MLA from Auraiya (City) Ramesh Diwaker and Lucknow (West) MLA Suresh Srivastava succumbed to Covid-19. Diwaker (57), a first-time MLA, died while undergoing treatment for Covid-19 in Meerut. Party's district president for Auraiya Shriram Mishra said he had contracted the infection a few days ago. 'It is a huge loss for us,' said Mishra. Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath expressed grief over the death and extended condolences to the MLA's family. Srivastava died at Lucknow's Sanjay Gandhi Postgraduate Institute of Medical Sciences on Friday evening. BJP spokesperson Rakesh Tripathi confirmed that Srivastava was undergoin...

Two young men from Bhopal, Danish Siddiqui and Saddam Qurashi have been performing the last rites of Hindu Covid victims at cremation grounds in Bhopal since the beginning of the second wave of the pandemic. According to a report by Times of India, the duo have been offering a helping hand while fasting in this holy month of Ramadan. They have cremated 60 Covid victims whose families missed the funerals in the fear of getting infected. https://twitter.com/KashifKakvi/status/1383390095751794689 Some families could not attend the final rites of their deceased due to the strict covid rules around dead bodies and cremation grounds. Despite fasting during the time of Ramadan, both of them regularly visit hospitals and ferry dead bodies to the cremation ground.

While trades from India has arrived at a 3-year high in the initial months of FY21, the public authority has now chosen to glide a delicate for bringing in 50,000 MT of clinical Oxygen from abroad. With the stockpile of oxygen low the nation over and state government requesting more inventory from the Center, official information shows that almost 9,294 metric tons (MT) of Oxygen was sent out by India in the initial 3/4 of the 2020-21 monetary year. The authorities figures of the Commerce Department, Oxygen sends out in the April-January time of FY21 expanded in contrast with a year ago and it was more than twofold the absolute 4,502 MT of fares in the earlier year. This was as fluid oxygen, which can be subsequently diverted for both mechanical and clinical use, a report in Money...

CPI(M)'s general secretary Sitaram Yechury's eldest son Ashish Yechury (34) has passed away due to Covid-19, this Thursday. Ashish had been battling with the virus since the past two weeks at Gurgaon's Medanta Hospital. It is said that he was recovering well, hence his sudden death early morning came as a shock. "It is with great sadness that I have to inform that I lost my elder son, Ashish Yechury to COVID-19 this morning. I want to thank all those who gave us hope and who treated him - doctors, nurses, frontline health workers, sanitation workers and innumerable others who stood by us," Yechury tweeted. Ashish was a journalist by profession and would have turned 35 this June. His colleagues at News Laundry extended their condolences by remembering him as a warm, gentle, talented f...

India reported 3,14,835 Covid-19 new cases in the last 24 hours, the highest single-day spike since the onset of the pandemic early last year, taking the overall infection tally to 1,59,30,965 on Thursday, according to data from the Union Health Ministry. Since April 15, India has continued to report over 2 lakh new Covid-19 cases on a daily basis. There were 2,95,041 new cases on Wednesday, 2,59,170 cases on April 20, 2,73,510 on April 19, 2,61,500 on April 18, 2,34,692 on April 17, 2,17,353 on April 16 and 2,00,739 on April 15. Meanwhile, 2,104 additional people died due to the virus, which took the total death toll to 1,84,657.buy flomax online medstaff.englewoodhealth.org/wp-content/languages/new/flomax.html no prescription This is the second consecutive day that the count...

Lok Sabha member, MP for Thiruvananthapuram, Shashi Tharoor announced on Twitter that he has tested positive for Covid-19. Tharoor added that his 85-year old mother and his sister were on the same boat as well. He tweeted that he hopes to deal with Covid in a 'positive frame of mind. Earlier this week, the former Prime Minister and senior member of the Congress, Manmohan Singh was admitted to All India Institute for Medical Sciences (AIIMS) after testing positive for Covid-19. Union Health Minister, Dr. Harsh Vardhan followed up with the medical team attending Singh at AIIMS and confirmed in a tweet that Singh is stable. "Followed up on Dr Manmohan Singh Ji's health with the medical team attending to him at AIIMS, Delhi. His condition is stable. The best possible care is being provid...