From installing freezers to cold chain equipment set up, arrangements are being made at a Delhi government hospital for storage of COVID-19 vaccine, anticipating its arrival, sources said on Tuesday. Delhi Health Minister Satyendar Jain had recently said work was underway to build storage and transportation logistics so that once the vaccine arrives, the next […]

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Amid mounting concern over a new strain of COVID-19 detected in the UK, the Delhi government on Tuesday said it will check the health condition of passengers, who have arrived here recently from the UK, by visiting their houses. All passengers arriving from the UK are now being tested for COVID-19 at Delhi airport, Health […]

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Delhi recorded 1,363 new Covid-19 cases on Thursday with over 90,000 tests conducted, the highest till date, even as the positivity rate slipped to 1.51 per cent, authorities said. The death toll mounted to 10,182 with 35 new fatalities, they said. This is the third consecutive day when the positivity rate remained below 2 per […]

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With a view to expedite resolution of issues, Delhi AIIMS’s nurses went on a strike, but soon enough it was called off Amidst a raging pandemic, 5,000 nurses of Delhi’s All India Institute of Medical Education (AIIMS) went on an indefinite strike on 14 December, which to many seemed like inappropriate timing. The national,vice president, […]

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Others are wary of travellers from Delhi because of the high incidence of Covid-19, but the capital city seems to be taking it easy instead of clamping down on movement Covid numbers are still a cause for worry in the capital city, and cities in Maharashtra, Uttarakhand’s Dehradun and Uttar Pradesh are unsurprisingly shy away […]

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