-The Hindu ₹3,976 crore spent during 2020-21; ₹100 cr promised for vaccine development not allotted The PM CARES Fund collected ₹10,990 crore since its inception in March 2020 until March 2021. It spent ₹3,976 crore during the 2020-21 financial year, according to the audited financial statement posted on its website. As on March 31, 2021, the Fund had an unspent balance of ₹7,044 crore. The Fund was set up to deal with “any...
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COVID-19: Three States Had 3.5L Excess Deaths, and the Ex Gratia May Elude Many -Tapasya, Harshitha Manwani and Mayank Aggarwal
-TheWire.in/ The Reporters' Collective * Excess deaths in Rajasthan, Jharkhand and Andhra Pradesh were over 12-times the corresponding official COVID-19 death toll until early January 2022. * Data from across the country suggests governments are undercounting COVID-19 deaths by the lakhs, possibly to avoid the charge of epidemic mismanagement. * As a result, facilitated by disparate protocols, poor record-keeping and red-tape, thousands of families haven’t received the compensation they are due. Last year, just as...
More »FIR on minister for assault on Odisha government officials -Subhashish Mohanty
-The Telegraph Both the victims were admitted to the Pandit Raghunath Murmu Medical College and Hospital, Baripada A case has been registered against Union minister Bishweswar Tudu for allegedly beating up two Odisha government officials, of whom one suffered a fracture. The incident took place at Baripada in Mayurbhanj district on Friday afternoon and the FIR was lodged late evening. Both the officials were admitted to the Pandit Raghunath Murmu Medical College and...
More »Just what the doctor ordered for the livestock farmer -Atul Chaturvedi
-The Hindu With most of India’s livestock in rural and remote areas, a game changer now will be the use of mobile veterinary units The twentieth livestock census indicated that India today has a livestock population of approximately 537 million; of this, 95.8% is concentrated in rural areas. Given the fact that most of the country’s livestock is in rural and remote areas, access to veterinary services is a major challenge. Livestock...
More »COVID-19: 'Dry cough means Delta and wet can be Omicron', say experts
-The New Indian Express The other crucial indicators of Omicron are fever not beyond 101 degrees for less than five days and headaches that are stabbing, and a scratchy throat. HYDERABAD: One key marker that distinguishes Delta from the Omicron variant is the manner in which cough manifests, noted doctors from AIG Hospitals. They said that based on known research and their personal observations of patients they have treated, most Delta variant...
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