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Supreme Court To States On Covid Compensation: "Without Wasting Time..."
The Supreme Court on Monday directed all states and Union Territories to ensure payment of compensation to family members of Covid victims without wasting any time.
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China's Covid Mass Testing Mantra Is Building A Waste Mountain
Hazmat-suited workers poke plastic swabs down millions of throats in China each day, leaving bins bursting with medical waste that has become the environmental and economic levy of a zero-Covid strategy.
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New Zealand Anti-Jab Protesters Threw Human Waste, Blocked Roads: Police
New Zealand police accused anti-vaccine demonstrators of throwing human waste at them Monday, during a pre-dawn operation to place roadblocks around a protest camp outside Wellington's parliament building.
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Reports That 50 Lakh Covishield Doses May Go Waste This Month "Misleading": Centre
The Union Health Ministry today refuted as "misleading" media reports which claimed that 50 lakh unused Covishield doses may go waste by the end of this month.
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Massive Volumes Of Covid Hospital Waste Threaten Health, Environment: WHO
Discarded syringes, used test kits and old vaccine bottles from the COVID-19 pandemic have piled up to create tens of thousands of tonnes of medical waste, threatening human health and the environment, a World Health Organization report said.
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Uttar Pradesh Not Ready For Covid Waste Management: Green Court
The National Green Tribunal has said that the Uttar Pradesh health department and the state pollution control board (SPCB)are not properly geared up for management of biomedical waste of COVID-19 patients.
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Senegal Expects 400,000 Covid Vaccine Doses To Be Wasted By End-December
At least 200,000 COVID-19 vaccines have expired in Senegal without being used in the past two months and another 200,000 are set to expire at the end of December because demand is too slow, the head of its immunisation programme said on Monday.
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Up To 1 Million Covid Vaccine Doses Wasted In Nigeria Last Month: Report
Up to one million COVID-19 vaccines are estimated to have expired in Nigeria last month without being used, two sources told Reuters, one of the biggest single losses of doses that shows the difficulty African nations have getting shots in arms.
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UK Wasted 37 Billion Pounds On Covid Plan That Failed, Says Lawmakers' Report
The UK government largely wasted a mammoth £37 billion on a test and trace programme that failed to control the spread of Covid-19 last year, a report by lawmakers said today.
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US Wasted Over 15 Million Covid Doses Since March: Report
The United States has thrown away at least 15.1 million doses of Covid-19 vaccines since March 1, according to a report by NBC News.
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Centre's Reply In Parliament Shows No Vaccine Wasted In Rajasthan: Ashok Gehlot
Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot on Friday said the Union Health Ministry's reply in Parliament that no Covid vaccine dose was wasted in the state is a befitting answer to those who made false allegations in this regard.
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"Vaccine Waste Will Affect Allocation": Centre's Warning To States
Covid vaccine allocation to states may be negatively affected by high wastage rates, the government said Tuesday as part of revised rules for the national vaccination drive
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11.5 Lakh Vaccine Doses Wasted? Rajasthan Denies Union Minister's Claim
Union Jal Shakti Minister Gajendra Singh Shekhawat on Monday alleged that Rajasthan wasted 11.5 lakh doses of coronavirus vaccine.
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Excavator Used By Family To Carry, Dump UP Covid Vicitm's Body In Grave
The three sons of the Covid victim were hesitant to touch the body, so they brought in an excavator to carry it from their home to the burial site. There, they dumped their father, along with some other waste material.
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Rahul Gandhi's "Mindless Blabbering" Waste Of Internet Space: Minister
Rahul Gandhi's swipes today at Prime Minister Narendra Modi over the second wave of Covid and the vaccination slowdown provoked a swift and acrid fightback from the government with at least two Union Ministers hitting back at the Congress leader.
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Supreme Court To States On Covid Compensation: "Without Wasting Time..."
The Supreme Court on Monday directed all states and Union Territories to ensure payment of compensation to family members of Covid victims without wasting any time.
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China's Covid Mass Testing Mantra Is Building A Waste Mountain
Hazmat-suited workers poke plastic swabs down millions of throats in China each day, leaving bins bursting with medical waste that has become the environmental and economic levy of a zero-Covid strategy.
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New Zealand Anti-Jab Protesters Threw Human Waste, Blocked Roads: Police
New Zealand police accused anti-vaccine demonstrators of throwing human waste at them Monday, during a pre-dawn operation to place roadblocks around a protest camp outside Wellington's parliament building.
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Reports That 50 Lakh Covishield Doses May Go Waste This Month "Misleading": Centre
The Union Health Ministry today refuted as "misleading" media reports which claimed that 50 lakh unused Covishield doses may go waste by the end of this month.
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Massive Volumes Of Covid Hospital Waste Threaten Health, Environment: WHO
Discarded syringes, used test kits and old vaccine bottles from the COVID-19 pandemic have piled up to create tens of thousands of tonnes of medical waste, threatening human health and the environment, a World Health Organization report said.
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Uttar Pradesh Not Ready For Covid Waste Management: Green Court
The National Green Tribunal has said that the Uttar Pradesh health department and the state pollution control board (SPCB)are not properly geared up for management of biomedical waste of COVID-19 patients.
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Senegal Expects 400,000 Covid Vaccine Doses To Be Wasted By End-December
At least 200,000 COVID-19 vaccines have expired in Senegal without being used in the past two months and another 200,000 are set to expire at the end of December because demand is too slow, the head of its immunisation programme said on Monday.
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Up To 1 Million Covid Vaccine Doses Wasted In Nigeria Last Month: Report
Up to one million COVID-19 vaccines are estimated to have expired in Nigeria last month without being used, two sources told Reuters, one of the biggest single losses of doses that shows the difficulty African nations have getting shots in arms.
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UK Wasted 37 Billion Pounds On Covid Plan That Failed, Says Lawmakers' Report
The UK government largely wasted a mammoth £37 billion on a test and trace programme that failed to control the spread of Covid-19 last year, a report by lawmakers said today.
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US Wasted Over 15 Million Covid Doses Since March: Report
The United States has thrown away at least 15.1 million doses of Covid-19 vaccines since March 1, according to a report by NBC News.
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Centre's Reply In Parliament Shows No Vaccine Wasted In Rajasthan: Ashok Gehlot
Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot on Friday said the Union Health Ministry's reply in Parliament that no Covid vaccine dose was wasted in the state is a befitting answer to those who made false allegations in this regard.
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"Vaccine Waste Will Affect Allocation": Centre's Warning To States
Covid vaccine allocation to states may be negatively affected by high wastage rates, the government said Tuesday as part of revised rules for the national vaccination drive
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11.5 Lakh Vaccine Doses Wasted? Rajasthan Denies Union Minister's Claim
Union Jal Shakti Minister Gajendra Singh Shekhawat on Monday alleged that Rajasthan wasted 11.5 lakh doses of coronavirus vaccine.
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Excavator Used By Family To Carry, Dump UP Covid Vicitm's Body In Grave
The three sons of the Covid victim were hesitant to touch the body, so they brought in an excavator to carry it from their home to the burial site. There, they dumped their father, along with some other waste material.
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Rahul Gandhi's "Mindless Blabbering" Waste Of Internet Space: Minister
Rahul Gandhi's swipes today at Prime Minister Narendra Modi over the second wave of Covid and the vaccination slowdown provoked a swift and acrid fightback from the government with at least two Union Ministers hitting back at the Congress leader.
