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The Political Theatre of Harsh Vardhan v. Baba Ramdev
Compare Vardhan s letter to Ramdev to his letter on April 20 to former prime minister Manmohan Singh.
Harsh Vardhan and Baba Ramdev. Credits: MST/PIB and Kumari Anu/PIB, Wikimedia Commons
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Last week, Baba Ramdev made offensive remarks against allopathic medicine, calling it stupid and alleging that more people had died from taking such medicines than due to COVID-19. On Sunday, Union health minister Harsh Vardhan sent a letter to Ramdev asking him to withdraw his comments. On Monday morning, news reports suggested Ramdev had done so.
Compare Vardhan’s letter on Sunday to Ramdev to his letter on April 20 to former prime minister Manmohan Singh. A day earlier, Singh had written to Prime Minister Narendra Modi suggesting that the Centre give the states more flexibility to locally adapt the vaccination programme and share the vaccine purchase orders the Centre signed with the manufacturers.
SRINAGAR: The Lt Governor administration in Jammu and Kashmir on Monday declared
Black Fungus (Mucormycosis) as an epidemic after a 40-year-old person succumbed to this infection and another suspected case is reportedly under treatment at Srinagar hospital.
“Under Section 2 o the Epidemic Diseases Act 1897 (Act No 3 of 1897), the government of J&K notifies Mucormycosis as an epidemic,” reads a notification issued by the government.
The notification has made it mandatory for all the private and government health institutions to report suspected and confirmed cases to the Health Department through District Level Chief Medical Officers and Integrated Disease Surveillance Program (IDSP).