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Empower ASHA & Anganwadi workers with all necessary tools to boost COVID fight in rural areas: Narendra Modi
In a COVID19 review meeting, the Prime Minister Narendra Modi has directed officials to empower ASHA & Anganwadi workers with all necessary tools and boost healthcare resources in villages by focusing on door-to-door testing. A distribution plan for ensuring oxygen supply in rural areas should be worked out.
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Declare forest staff as frontline workers: IFS Association
Highlighting the COVID19 exposure risk and deaths of the forest staff while performing their duties in the pandemic, the association demanded to declare forest staffs as frontline warriors so that they can be vaccinated on priority.
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UP panchayat elections: Reconsider compensation to poll officers who died of COVID19, should be at least Rs 1 crore — Allahabad HC tells govt, SEC
“To compensate the loss of life of the family’s bread earner and that too because of a deliberate act on part of the State and the State Election Commission to force them to perform duties in absence of RT-PCR support, the compensation must be at least to the tune of Rs one crore,” the court said.
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Graves by the Ganga: a surge of COVID deaths and moneyless families burying, not cremating their kin
The Ganga ghat at Baksar in Unnao, Uttar Pradesh, has seen an unprecedented rush as dead bodies await their turn to be cremated, or buried. As the poor cannot afford the Rs 15,000 required for a cremation, they are choosing to bury their dead for Rs 700.
Sumit Yadav
DCGI gives nod to Phase II, III clinical trials of Covaxin for 2-18 years age group
The permission has been granted after ‘careful examination’, said the health ministry. Bharat Biotech will conduct the trial on 525 healthy volunteers. Meanwhile, experts warn that the third wave of COVID19 is likely to affect kids hard.
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Karnataka surpasses Maharashtra in active caseload; opposition leaders demand universal mass vaccination
Amid rising cases and vaccine shortage, Karnataka temporarily suspends the COVID-19 vaccination for 18-44 years age group. Meanwhile, in a joint letter to PM Modi, leaders of 12 opposition parties have asked to invoke compulsory licensing to expand domestic vaccine production.
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COVID19 vaccination: Karnataka temporarily suspends vaccination for 18-44 years age group
“Vaccination for 18 to 44 age group (including those who have already booked appointment) will be temporarily suspended from 14.05.2021 till further orders,” reads the state government’s order.
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16 health officials of PHCs and CHCs in Unnao, Uttar Pradesh retract resignation after assurance from CMO
In negotiation talks with the Unnao CMO, the officials were assured that their grievances would be addressed. Following this, the officials took back their decision to resign from their posts of the in-charges of community health centres (CHCs) and primary health centres (PHCs).
Sumit Yadav
In this gram panchayat in Bihar, villagers willingly come forward for COVID19 vaccination
While reports of reluctance in rural Indians to get vaccinated across India pour in, the gram panchayat of Kaithi Bankat in Bihar shows the way forward. Within active support of village heads and the PHC, vaccination camps have been a success.
Divendra Singh
Over 300 govt-run community kitchens daily feed thousands of poor across Bihar in the lockdown
While Bihar is under a complete lockdown from May 5 to May 15, the state government is running community kitchens across all the districts to feed hot meals twice a day to the poor and the homeless.