Campaign launched to ensure COVID-free Puducherry by February 28
A coordinated effort to achieve the goal had been geared up and the campaign was launched on Saturday to free Puducherry of COVID-19, Health and Family Welfare Director S Mohan Kumar told PTI. PTI
Ca (Image Source: Reuters)
A campaign has been launched to ensure there were no COVID-19 cases by this month end in the union territory, where the daily count has fallen to single digits, a Health department official said on Sunday.
Under the Zero Covid by Feb 28 campaign, all those who had come into contact with people infected with coronavirus would be identified and provided treatment, so that the further spread of the pathogen could be prevented, Health and Family Welfare Director S Mohan Kumar said.
A campaign has been launched to ensure there were no COVID-19 cases by this month end in the union territory, where the daily count has fallen to single digits, a Health department official said on Sunday. Under the Zero Covid by Feb28 campaign, all those who had come into contact with people infected with coronavirus would be identified and provided treatment, so that the further spread of the pathogen could be prevented, Health and Family Welfare Director S Mohan Kumar said. A coordinated effort to achieve the goal had been geared up and the campaign was launched on Saturday to free Puducherry of COVID-19, he told PTI.
5 UG medical seats reserved for COVID warriors’ wards from Puducherry
The seats were reserved in Lady Hardinge Medical College in New Delhi, MGMS Vardha (Maharashtra), NSCB Medical college Jabalpur (Madhya Pradesh), JLN Medical College (Ajmer) and GMC Haldwani (Uttarakhand) Updated: December 14, 2020 11:35:05 am
Candidates who are wards of deceased Covid warriors and front line workers and have qualified in the NEET examination can apply for the five seats. Representational image/ file
Five undergraduate medical seats have been earmarked for the children of deceased COVID-19 warriors in Puducherry in as many colleges across the country for 2020-21 under a central scheme, the union territory government said on Sunday.
Sandra Lindsay, left, a nurse at Long Island Jewish Medical Center, is inoculated with the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine by Dr. Michelle Chester in the Queens borough of New York (AP)
New York on Monday inoculated its first healthcare worker, an intensive care unit nurse in Queens, with the Pfizer/BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine, marking a pivotal turn in the US effort to control the deadly virus. Sandra Lindsay, an ICU nurse, was given the vaccine at Long Island Jewish Medical Center in Queens, New York, an early epicenter of the country’s Covid-19 outbreak, receiving applause on a livestream with New York Governor Andrew Cuomo.
5 UG medical seats reserved for children of deceased COVID-19 warriors from Puducherry indiatvnews.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from indiatvnews.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.